VOLUME TWO of Professor Clagett's Archimedes in the Middle Ages concentrates on the Latin translations of Archimedes made by the Flemish Dominican William of Moerbeke in 1269 at Viterbo. These...
This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should—indeed must—reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his...