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What We Can Learn from a Diagram: The Case of Aristarchus's On The Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon.

By using the example of a single proposition and its diagrams, this paper makes explicit a number of the processes in effect in the textual transmission of works in the exact sciences of the ancient and medieval periods. By examining the diagrams of proposition 13 as they appear in the Greek, Arabic...

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Published in:Annals of Science Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 525 - 548
Main Author: Sidoli, Nathan
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2007
Subjects:
Transmission of texts
Science
Middle Ages
Language & languages
Theory of knowledge
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