Defined as «a sort of relation in respect of size between two magnitudes of the same kind», a ratio was not a number nor a geometrical magnitude in Euclid's Elements. During the first half of the 18th century, however, ratios were identified with numerical magnitudes for all practical purposes. This paper argues that in order to understand the changing notions of ratio and proportionality in the early modern period two questions are to be answered separately. One concerns the numerical status of the objects compared through a ratio, or term of the ratio and the paper shows that by the turn of the 17th century this difficulty had been overcome. The second question concerns the status of ratios themselves, which was not solved until the 18th ...
SUMMARY. — This article shows how Pietro Mengoli (1625-1686), a mathematician from Bologna and pupil...
International audienceIn the eighteenth century and before, the systems of measurement (length, weig...
Cette thèse se propose de déterminer les apports d’Oronce Fine (1494-1555) à la philosophie des math...
http://methodos.revues.org/document51.htmlNational audienceThe notion of the denomination of a ratio...
The paper analyses the treatment of the systems of equations by the more notable authors of the Iber...
The end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century witnessed intense structural changes in th...
The question of geometrical and/or/'versus' arithmetical proportions remains unresolved insofar as N...
International audienceCampanus' 13th-century version of Euclid's Elements is not a translation but a...
Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências – Formação Contínua de Professores (área de especialização em Ma...
SUMMARY. — The transversal theorem of Menelaos, which Ptolemy uses abundantly in his Almageste, gave...
International audienceProportional reasoning seems to be one of the oldest mathematical problem solv...
International audienceCampanus' 13th-century version of Euclid's Elements is not a translation but a...
AbstractFor a century or so much Greek mathematics has been interpreted as algebra in geometric and ...
AbstractEnglish editions of Euclid's Elements clashed over the arithmetization of mathematics. The e...
SUMMARY. — I investigate some texts taken principally from Aristotle's Physics, in order to analyze ...
SUMMARY. — This article shows how Pietro Mengoli (1625-1686), a mathematician from Bologna and pupil...
International audienceIn the eighteenth century and before, the systems of measurement (length, weig...
Cette thèse se propose de déterminer les apports d’Oronce Fine (1494-1555) à la philosophie des math...
http://methodos.revues.org/document51.htmlNational audienceThe notion of the denomination of a ratio...
The paper analyses the treatment of the systems of equations by the more notable authors of the Iber...
The end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century witnessed intense structural changes in th...
The question of geometrical and/or/'versus' arithmetical proportions remains unresolved insofar as N...
International audienceCampanus' 13th-century version of Euclid's Elements is not a translation but a...
Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências – Formação Contínua de Professores (área de especialização em Ma...
SUMMARY. — The transversal theorem of Menelaos, which Ptolemy uses abundantly in his Almageste, gave...
International audienceProportional reasoning seems to be one of the oldest mathematical problem solv...
International audienceCampanus' 13th-century version of Euclid's Elements is not a translation but a...
AbstractFor a century or so much Greek mathematics has been interpreted as algebra in geometric and ...
AbstractEnglish editions of Euclid's Elements clashed over the arithmetization of mathematics. The e...
SUMMARY. — I investigate some texts taken principally from Aristotle's Physics, in order to analyze ...
SUMMARY. — This article shows how Pietro Mengoli (1625-1686), a mathematician from Bologna and pupil...
International audienceIn the eighteenth century and before, the systems of measurement (length, weig...
Cette thèse se propose de déterminer les apports d’Oronce Fine (1494-1555) à la philosophie des math...