Accounting for overspecification and indifference to visual accuracy in manuscript diagrams: a tentative explanation based on transmission

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2018.05.001zbMath1397.01004OpenAlexW2805556497MaRDI QIDQ1672043

Christián C. Carman

Publication date: 7 September 2018

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/8607

zbMATH Keywords

transmissionoverspecificationindifference to visual accuracymanuscript diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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Uses Software

• DRaFT

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