The debate between Peletier and Clavius on superposition

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2017.09.004zbMATH Open1397.01009OpenAlexW2766727869MaRDI QIDQ1708441FDOQ1708441

Authors: Angela Axworthy 

Publication date: 23 March 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2017.09.004

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zbMATH Keywords

superpositiongeometrical proceduresRenaissance epistemology of geometrysixteenth-century Euclidean tradition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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