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La transformación de la cultura clásica en el s.IV: el caso de Filastrio de Brescia
2018
Resumen: La obra de Filastrio de Brescia, Diversarum hereseon liber, compuesta a finales del siglo IV (380-90), se inserta en el género de la heresiología o catálogos adversus omnes haereses. De entre las 156 «herejías» que enumera este autor en su obra, además de los ya más que conocidos herejes o grupos de herejes como Simón mago, Valentinianos y otros, dedica un elevado número de entradas heréticas a refutar la tradición clásica. Analizamos en el presente trabajo la actitud de este clérigo ante los saberes clásicos. Centraremos nuestra atención en la transformación de aquellos conocimientos clásicos relacionados con la cosmografía, etnografía e historia en unos puramente bíblicos. Abstra…
What Do You Need a Mathematician For? Martinus Hortensius ’s “Speech on the Dignity and Utility of the Mathematical Sciences ” (Amsterdam 1634)
2004
Send submissions to David E. Rowe, Fachbereich 17--Mathematik, Johannes Gutenberg University, D55099 Mainz, Germany. I n early modem Europe the term mathematical sciences was used to describe those fields of knowledge that depended on measure, number, and weight--reflecting the much-quoted passage from the Wisdom of Solomon 11, 20: "but thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and weight." This included astrology and architecture as well as arithmetic and astronomy. These scientiae or disciplinae mathematicae were generally subdivided into mathematicae purae, dealing with quantity, continuous and discrete as in geometry and arithmetic, and mathematicae mix tae or mediae, dealing n…
The Cultivation of Astronomy in Spanish Universities in the Latter Half of the 16th Century
2006
The four universities known to have taught mathematics in the 16th century in what is now known as Spain, were Salamanca, Valencia, Alcala, and, at the end of the century, Seville. In addition to being taught at university, astronomy was also taught in other institutions such as for example, the Casa de la Contratacion of Seville, the so-called Mathematics Academy of Madrid, certain naval academies and, towards the end of the century, certain Jesuit schools. At the University of Valencia, following the official foundation of the Estudi or center of learning in 1500, a chair of mathematics was set up in 1503, although we have no documentary evidence of the subjects taught there in the early …