The obscurity of the equimultiples clavius' and galileo's foundalional studies of euclid's theory of proportions

Archive for History of Exact Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 555-597

  Palmieri, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/s004070100037     Document Type: Article

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