Graphical choices and geometrical thought in the transmission of Theodosius' Spherics from antiquity to the Renaissance

DOI10.1007/s00407-009-0054-1zbMath1185.01014OpenAlexW2053557952MaRDI QIDQ2266826

Michela Malpangotto

Publication date: 26 February 2010

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-009-0054-1

zbMATH Keywords

spherical geometrygraphical representationTheodosius' Spherics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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