LUCA PACIOLI AND THE “CONTROVERSY OF THE PERSPECTIVE”: THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE MATHEMATICS FROM THE CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY TO THE END OF THE QUATTROCENTO.

Abstract

There have been several classifications of sciences toward the history. Until now, a demarcation criterion which allows discerning what should or should not be called science and how to distinguish it related to its nature has been debated. In the medieval world, the branches of knowledge, responsible for the individual educational basis, were called Artes Liberales (Liberal Arts). These ones were cultivated for the education of the free man (lat. Liber) opposing to the Artes Iliberales (Illiberal Arts) which had economic purposes.

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• LUCA PACIOLI AND THE “CONTROVERSY OF THE PERSPECTIVE”: THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE MATHEMATICS FROM THE CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY TO THE END OF THE QUATTROCENTO.