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, 2014 Quantity is the first category that Aristotle lists after substance. It has extraordinary epistemological clarity: "2+2=4" is the model of a self-evident and universally known truth. Continuous quantities such as the ratio of circumference to diameter of
Franklin, James
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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ISLAM DAN ILMU PENGETAHUAN : REKOGNISI PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DI BARAT ABAD KLASIK
FitrahThe development of education in the world is inseparable from the contributions of Islam, which has played a significant role in it. Consequently, Islam holds a legitimate position in terms of the quality of education, which should be acknowledged ...
Hermawansyah Hermawansyah +2 more
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Recovering Two Lost Treatises on Approximating the Sine of 1 ° from Qushjī’s Commentary on Zīj-i Ṣulṭānī [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and SciencesThe accuracy of medieval approximations of the Sine of 1° reached its peak with the works of the Persian mathematician and astronomer Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd al-Kāshī (d. 832/1429), and his patron Ulugh Beg (d.
Fateme Savadi
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The Significance Of The Erosion Of The Prohibition Against Metabasis To The Success And Legacy Of The Copernican Revolution [PDF]
, 2011 Although one would not wish to classify Copernicus’ own intentions as belonging to the late-medieval and Renaissance tradition of nominalist philosophy, if we are to turn our consideration to what was responsible for the eventual success of the ...
Aleksander, Jason
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Background perspectives on infinity and God
In die Skriflig, 2019 Initially the connection between divinity and infinity was accompanied by an initial notion of infinity in the literal sense of one, another one, and so on – without an end, endless. Via Anaxagoras we reach Aristotle for whom it would be contradictory to
Danie F.M. Strauss
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Relations Without Polyadic Properties: Albert the Great On the Nature and Ontological Status of Relations [PDF]
, 2001 I think it would be fair to say that, until about 1900, philosophers were generally reluctant to admit the existence of what are nowadays called polyadic properties.1 It is important to recognize, however, that this reluctance on the part of pre ...
Brower, Jeffrey E.
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Exploration of a Large Database of French Notarial Acts with Social Network Methods
Digital Medievalist, 2014 This article illustrates how mathematical and statistical tools designed to handle relational data may be useful to help decipher the most important features and defects of a large historical database and to gain knowledge about a corpus made of several ...
Fabrice Rossi +2 more
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