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Relocating mathematics: a case of moving texts between the front and back of mathematics
As mathematics departments in the United States began to shift toward standards of original research at the end of the nineteenth century, many...
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The Structuralist Mathematical Style: Bourbaki as a Case Study
In this paper, we look at Bourbaki’s work as a case study for the notion of mathematical style. We argue that indeed Bourbaki exemplifies a...
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The Question of Adequacy, from Hermeneutics to Writing Strategies
The postulate of adequacy had been extensively questioned and deepened in the area of hermeneutics and interpretive social sciences. Some of the...
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Images in Renaissance Science, Function of
Medieval natural philosophy proper, i.e., philosophia naturalis, was concerned with understanding natural motion and change, understood in the...
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Chortasmenos, Ioannis
Ioannis Chortasmenos (ca. 1370–1431) was a scholar, mathematician, astronomer, and bibliophile; under the name Ignatios he became Metropolitan of...
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Three Key Texts – Medical Ethics, Medical Jurisprudence, and Extracts
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Gersonides – Translating Divinity Within the Limits of Knowledge
Gersonides (1288–1344), who is central to this chapter, lived in Orange, a small town in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region which today finds itself...
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Euclid: Reception in the Renaissance
Although the Latin Middle Ages received a number of versions of Euclid’s Elements and several other Euclidean works, by the fourteenth century, only...
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Roberto Torretti’s Philosophy of Science
In this chapter, we provide an analysis of Torretti’s main views in the general philosophy of science. I shall examine his Kantian take on...
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Mechanics in Renaissance Science
The modern science of mechanics – a mathematical discipline – appeared during the sixteenth century at the crossroads of the increasing...
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The Encyclopaedia of Poor Life in Platonov’s Proletarian Literature
This chapter traces the encyclopaedic structure of Platonov’s literary and theoretical legacy. It examines novels and the groups of texts that...
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Introduction: Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Differences in the History of Knowledge-Making
This book proposes a novel approach to knowledge-making. By formulating a new paradigm and drawing on fresh material about spaces that have so far...
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A History of Circulation vs. an ‘Episodic’ History of Mathematics in South Asia: Titrating the Historiography and Social Theory of Science and Mathematics
The historiography of mathematics of the non-Western world long appeared immune to the influence of cultural studies or of critiques of Orientalism....
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Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Rudolf-Wolfgang Müller: The Idea of Money and Money as Idea
This chapter surveys the relation between money and ideation in the writings of two insightful but often overlooked German thinkers of the...
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Software and Writing: A Philosophical and Historical Analysis
The previous chapter developed the thesis that software is a hermeneutic process of appropriation and distancing, exactly like a text, in Ricoeur’s...
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Philosophy of Money in Renaissance France
In old regime France, money and coinage were inseparable. Good government created money by applying suitable technical, bureaucratic, and academic or...
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Materialism and the History of Science
While the links between history of science and materialist epistemology are widely discussed (and divergently interpreted), this chapter explores the...
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Geography in Renaissance Sciences
Geography in the early modern period is part of cosmography. Geography is defined as a graphical representation of the whole known world, a...
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An Intellectual Biography of Thomas Percival
Percival’s writings were published in four volumes in 1807, edited by his son Edward Percival (Percival 1807). These volumes were reprinted in 1870...