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The "wooden terrestrial spheres" mentioned here are what we now call "armillary spheres." An armillary is a spherical a...

Although we use the term "renaissance" to refer primarily to a rebirth of art and culture that started in 14th century Italy and s...

Image from Adelard's translation of Euclid's Elements of Geometry Being inquisitive is the first step to learning.* In the early...

After mentioning Fibonacci 's work, the Liber Abacus , it occurred to me that the place of the abacus in history deserved a little atten...