Inventing tradition in 16th- and 17th-century mathematical sciences: Abraham as teacher of arithmetic and astronomy

DOI10.1007/S00283-015-9562-9zbMATH Open1335.01014OpenAlexW1225956232WikidataQ115927966 ScholiaQ115927966MaRDI QIDQ906030FDOQ906030

Authors: Volker R. Remmert 

Publication date: 29 January 2016

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-015-9562-9

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zbMATH Keywords

16th- and 17th-century opinions and ideasabout the creation of astronomy, natural sciences and mathematics due to the biblical Abraham, Adam and Sethphotographs, pictures and paintings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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• On picturing the past: arithmetic and geometry as wings of the mind

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