Geometry in context in the sixteenth century: the view from the museum

DOI10.1163/157338202X00126zbMATH Open1239.01046OpenAlexW1990152743MaRDI QIDQ2889548FDOQ2889548

Authors: Jim Bennett 

Publication date: 7 June 2012

Published in: Early Science and Medicine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/157338202x00126

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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