A treatise on proportion in the tradition of Thomas Bradwardine: the \textit{De proportionibus libri duo} (1528) of Jean Fernel

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2013.01.001MaRDI QIDQ391333zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sabine Rommevaux

Publication date 10 January 2014

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2013.01.001

zbMATH Keywords

Jean Ferneltheory of proportionThomas Bradwardine

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) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

Review text

In 1528 Jean Fernel edited the book \textit{De proportionibus libri duo}. Some chapters deal with denomination of a ratio, with fractions and with irrational ratios (in the diction of the author), thus predominantly with quotients of integers. In the article at hand, Sabine Rommeaux translates parts of the book from Latin into English. Additionally she analyses which sources Fernel might have used. Particularly she compares Fernel's work with the book of Thomas Bradwardine entitled \textit{Tractatus de proportionibus seu de proportionibus velocitatum in motibus}, which was written at the beginning of the fourteenth century.

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