Marginalia to an edition of \textit{Ex ludis rerum mathematicarum}: Observations and notes for the publication of a scientific text and its figures

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Authors Francesco Furlan

Publication date 18 February 2010

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zbMATH Keywords

epistemology and philologyhistory of the sciences and philologymanuscript traditiontextual criticism of scientific texts and their illustrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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