In my contribution on Poleni and the teaching of mathematics in Padua, I show how, despite an outward adherence to the classics (Euclid), contemporary debates were introduced into the classroom, for example, on the shape of the Earth.

There is also Bernard of Chartres' idea that we are like "dwarfs on the shoulders of giants". Jens Hoyrup shows in his latest book that Jacopo of Florence, a master of abbacus from the 14th c., believed someone would climb on his shoulders too, suggesting a linear progress in knowledge of maths.

a sua genesi/construcao. Isso é tipico da matematica, mas nao sei em outras ciencias? Talvez tem partes da matematica onde faz mais sentidos de outras, tambem.

Talvez a questao tem a ver com distincao entre definicao nominal e real: a nominal e definir algo via suas propriedades (um circulo e o lugar de pontos equidistantes etc), a definicao real é dar uma procedura para construir (tracar circulo com compasso). As vezes definir algo significa monstrar --->

, in the Hellenistic age (300 BCE - 150 BCE). Even if one does not buy the main thesis of the book, it remains a fascinating tale of knowledge lost and slowly, but only imperfectly, perhaps, retrieved.

Russo was perhaps more known internationally for his “Forgotten Revolution”. , originally published in Italian as “La rivoluzione dimenticata”. I like Russo’s style and his central thesis, questionable as it may be, is fascinating: the scientific revolution occurred centuries before the XVII century

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if the new owners can see this post, maybe they can send me a picture 😇