The Geometrical Background to the “Merton School”
- 1 June 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The British Journal for the History of Science
- Vol. 4 (2) , 108-125
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400003447
Abstract
At the end of the last century Paul Tannery published an article on geometry in eleventh-century Europe, which he began with the following statement: “This is not a chapter in the history of science; it is a study of ignorance, in a period immediately before the introduction into the West of Arab mathematics.”Keywords
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