"Kant did not think of scientific reason as an historical and communal product. We
do. My styles of reasoning are eminently public. They are also part of what is
required for us to understand what, in the West, is called objectivity. This is not
because they are objective, but because they determine what it is to be objective.
Crombie does not expressly define “style of scientific thinking in the European
tradition.” He explains it ..."
The Arithmetica of Diophantus(1st Edition) A Complete Translation and Commentary (Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World) Hardcover by Jean Christianidis Hardcover, 876 Pages, Published 2022 by Taylor & Francis ISBN-13: 978-1-138-04635-1, ISBN: 1-138-04635-3
"Mueller has vigorously investigated this point. He has summarized the
characteristics of the algebraic interpretation quoting Zeuthen and van der
Waerden as follows: 1. The lines and areas of geometric algebra represent
arbitrary quantities; 2. Geometric algebra is a translation of Babylonian algebraic
methods; 3. The “line of thought” in much of Greek mathematics is “at bottom
purely algebraic”.29 | Mueller admits that the truth o ..."