Ancient & medieval traditions in the exact sciences : essays in memory of Wilbur Knorr

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Ancient & medieval traditions in the exact sciences : essays in memory of Wilbur Knorr

edited by Patrick Suppes, Julius M. Moravcsik, Henry Mendell

CSLI Publications, c2000

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CSLI lecture notes

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"On March 13 and 14, 1998, a Wilbur Knorr Memorial conference was held at Stanford ... The present volume consists of the papers given at the conference"--Pref

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This volume of essays is dedicated to the late Wilbur Knorr, a historian of science. Inspired by Knorr's work, the essays concentrate on the history of ancient mathematics, the associated mathematical sciences and their medieval and modern traditions. Topics include: a study of geometric analysis and sythesis in ancient Greece and medieval Islam; an examination of Eudoxus as originator for the ideas of proportionality underlying Book V of "Euclid's Elements"; the extent that Renaissance theorists of linear perspective had access to ancient sources; a discussion of the geometrical chemistry of Plato's "Timaeus" and its interpretation in antiquity, as well as a study of Plato's concept of numbers and its relation to the Theory of Forms; and the history of science in a chronology of three dynasties in China.

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