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A world of words and things
Demonstrable common sense: pre-modern science
Early numeracy and the classifying of mathematics
Thing mathematics: the medieval quadrivium
Arithmetic: Hindu-Arabic numbers and the rise of commerce
Music: taming time, tempering tone
Geometry: the illusions of perspective and proportion
Astronomy: the technologies of time
The moment of modern science
The birth of analysis
Toward the mathematization of matter
Demonstrations and narrations: the doctrine of two truths.
Demonstrable common sense: pre-modern science
Early numeracy and the classifying of mathematics
Thing mathematics: the medieval quadrivium
Arithmetic: Hindu-Arabic numbers and the rise of commerce
Music: taming time, tempering tone
Geometry: the illusions of perspective and proportion
Astronomy: the technologies of time
The moment of modern science
The birth of analysis
Toward the mathematization of matter
Demonstrations and narrations: the doctrine of two truths.