Daily Medieval

De Gradibus  (Latin: Concerning degrees) was written by the Father of Arab Philosophy, Al-Kindi (801-873CE). In it, he applies mathematics t...

Much of the medieval attitude about music and its forms came from Boethius (c.480-524 CE). In his de institution music [Latin: "On th...

Source Ah, numbers. We use them every day. We also know that there are different sets of numbers. We have Arabic numerals for everyday ...

First page of " Cubic equation and intersection of conic sections" A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, ...

Recent stamp commemorating al-Khwārizmī Algebra—a method for doing computations using non-number symbols (such as " x " and ...

Diagram of an eclipse from a modern translation of Hipparchus It is not always easy to figure out dates from classical or medieval writi...

I have written about the Oxford Calculators , four men at Oxford University in the second quarter of the 14th century who made great strid...

Among the accomplishments of Hermann of Reichenau , he also provides us with the set of rules for one of Europe's oldest board games, ...