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It’s not that they couldn’t

Reviel Netz (2002)

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The article offers a critique of the notion of ‘concepts’ in the history of mathematics. Authors in the field sometimes assume an argument from conceptual impossibility: that certain authors could not do X because they did not have concept Y. The case of the divide between Greek and modern mathematics is discussed in detail, showing that the argument from conceptual impossibility is empirically as well as theoretically flawed. An alternative account of historical diversity is offered,...

Thomas Harriot on Combinations

Ian Maclean (2005)

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Thomas Harriot (1560?–1621) is known today as an innovative mathematician and a natural philosopher with wide intellectual horizons. This paper will look at his interest in combinations in three contexts: language (anagrams), natural philosophy (the question of atomism) and mathematics (number theory), in order to assess where to situate him in respect of three current historiographical debates: 1) whether there existed in the late Renaissance two opposed mentalities, the occult and...

An Exciting New Arabic Version of Euclid’s Elements: MS Mumbai, MULLĀ FĪ RŪ Z R.I.6

Sonja Brentjes (2006)

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This paper introduces an anonymous and undated Arabic version of Euclid’s . It tries to determine its relationship to the textual history of the Arabic as known today. The value of the version, the paper argues, is its close relationship to the works of the first known translator of Euclid’s into Arabic, al-Ḥajjāj b.Yūsuf b.Maṭar, the light it sheds on philosophical debates surrounding the , and the new textual basis (BooksI toIX with some lacunae) it yields for the further study of...