1. Introduction -- 2. Oronce Fine -- 3. Jacques Peletier -- 4. François de Foix-Candale -- 5. Henry Billingsley -- 6. John Dee -- 7. Federico Commandino -- 8. Christoph Clavius -- 9. Synthesis: Continuities and Transformations in the Status of Geometrical Motion and Genetic Defi…
1. Introduction -- 2. Oronce Fine -- 3. Jacques Peletier -- 4. François de Foix-Candale -- 5. Henry Billingsley -- 6. John Dee -- 7. Federico Commandino -- 8. Christoph Clavius -- 9. Synthesis: Continuities and Transformations in the Status of Geometrical Motion and Genetic Defi…
A significant number of works have set forth, over the past decades, the emphasis laid by seventeenth-century mathematicians and philosophers on motion and kinematic notions in geometry. These works demonstrated the crucial role attributed in this context to genetic definitions,…
A significant number of works have set forth, over the past decades, the emphasis laid by seventeenth-century mathematicians and philosophers on motion and kinematic notions in geometry. These works demonstrated the crucial role attributed in this context to genetic definitions,…