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Mesure et histoire médiévale : XLIIIe Congrès de la SHMESP (Tours, 31 mai-2 juin 2012)
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ISBN: 9791035101534 2859447563 9782859447564 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de la Sorbonne,

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Du poids des denrées à la superficie des champs, de la valeur des monnaies aux dimensions des corps, la mesure occupe une place centrale dans l'univers médiéval pour lequel « tout est proportion ». C'est donc à ce thème majeur et à son actualité dans les recherches en cours que le XLIIIe Congrès de la Société des historiens médiévistes de l'Enseignement supérieur public, réuni à Tours en juin 2012, a choisi de se consacrer. Vingt-cinq communications issues de ces échanges en révèlent la dimension plurielle, recouvrant par l'exemple les domaines multiples où s'exerce la quantification : économie, démographie et sociologie, culture et science, cartographie et géométrie, danse ou alimentation. Les voies d'entrée dans ces domaines ne sont pas moins nombreuses : métrologie, numismatique, lexicologie, archivistique, codicologie, archéologie, etc. Ces approches croisées donnent ainsi à relire les méthodes mises en œuvre, à prendre aussi la mesure du travail des historiens et des chantiers à venir.


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Méthodes et statut des sciences à la fin du Moyen-Âge
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ISSN: 1258116X ISBN: 2859398392 9782859398392 Year: 2004 Volume: 885 Publisher: Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion,

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The Oxford calculators and the mathematics of motion, 1320-1350 : physics and measurement by latitudes
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ISBN: 0824074475 9780824074470 Year: 1991 Volume: *3 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press,

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The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 0860786757 Year: 1999 Volume: CS624 Publisher: Aldershot, Hampshire ; Brookfield, Vermont Ashgate

Das Licht der Vernunft : Die Anfänge der Aufklärung im Mittelalter
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ISBN: 3406423108 Year: 1997 Publisher: München Beck

Texts and contexts in ancient and medieval science : studies on the occasion of John E. Murdoch's seventieth birthday
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ISBN: 9004108238 9004247327 9789004108233 Year: 1997 Volume: 78 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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These studies respond to the challenge posed twenty years ago by John E. Murdoch, in whose honor they have been assembled: to interpret ancient and medieval mathematical and scientific texts not just as isolated intellectual productions but as responses to particular settings or contexts. Two broad settings are explored here: that of the wider intellectual culture, where relations among mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy - and also theology, logic and astrology - are shown to have shaped individual texts; and the context of lay society, where institutional structures, patronage, even personal relationships impinged upon scientific writing. The volume reinforces the growing recognition that ancient and medieval scientific texts "made a difference" to their authors and audiences and must be understood in relation to topics like disciplinary identity, career advancement, lay interest, and practical applicability. Publications by John E. Murdoch : Edited by Christoph Lüthy, John E. Murdoch and William R. Newman , Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories , ISBN : 978 90 04 11516 3

Villard's legacy : studies in medieval technology, science and art in memory of Jean Gimpel
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ISBN: 0754609294 9780754609292 Year: 2004 Volume: 2

Studies in the history of the exact sciences in honour of David Pingree
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ISSN: 01698729 ISBN: 9004132023 1423731719 9781423731719 9789004132023 9789047412441 Year: 2004 Volume: v. 54 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This collection of essays reflects the wide range of David Pingree's expertise in the scientific texts (above all, concerning astronomy and astrology) of Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Persia, and the medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin traditions. Both theoretical aspects and the practical applications of the exact sciences-in time keeping, prediction of the future, and the operation of magic-are dealt with. The book includes several critical editions and translations of hitherto unknown or understudied texts, and a particular emphasis is on the diffusion of scientific learning from one culture to another, and through time. Above all, the essays show the variety and sophistication of the exact sciences in non-Western societies in pre-modern times.

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