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Mathematics, isomorphism, and the identity of objects [PDF]
, 2021 We compare the medieval projects of commentaries and disputations with the modern projects of formal ontology and of ...
White, Graham
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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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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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The story of mathematics [PDF]
, 2000 Questioning how mathematics has evolved over the centuries and for what reasons; how human endeavour and changes in the way we live have been dependent on mathematics, this book tells the story of the impact this intellectual activity has had across ...
Mankiewicz, Richard
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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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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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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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Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500] [PDF]
, 2009 In this study the manuscript transmission, dissemination and reception of Gerald of Wales’ Topographia Hibernica (TH) and William of Rubruck’s Itinerarium ad partes Orientales (Itinerary) in England c.1185-1500 have been explored.
David, Sumithra J.
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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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