Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática (Nov 2020)

WHY HAVE A FRONTISPIECE? EXAMPLES FROM THE MICHALOWICZ COLLECTION AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

  • Florence D. Fasanelli,
  • V. Frederick Rickey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.47976/RBHM2007vn09

Abstract

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When Henry Savile, who was noted for his mathematical breadth and knowledge of ancient texts, initiated a series of lectures at Oxford on the Almagest of Ptolemy on October 10, 1570, he began with these words of the Roman architect Vitruvius

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