The Oxford Calculators’ Middle Degree Theorem in Context

Early Science and Medicine 15 (4-5):338-370 (2010)
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The core Oxford Calculators developed a science of kinematics in which the key concept was the "latitude of velocity." Based upon the concept of "latitude," the Calculators developed parts of a mathematical physics in deductive format that could be applied to quite various situations

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Buridan on mathematics.J. M. Thijssen - 1985 - Vivarium 23 (1):55-78.

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