The Measure Of Multitude

Download or read book The Measure of Multitude written by Peter Biller and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-12-14 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing and this book describes how medieval people thought about population through both the texts which contained their thought and the medieval realities which shaped it. They found many topics, such as the history of population and variations between polygamy, monogamy and virginity, through theology. Crusade and travel literature supplied the themes of Muslim polygamy, military numbers, the colonization of the Holy Land,and the populations of Mongolia and China. Translations of Aristotle provided not only new themes but also a new vocabulary with which to think about population. In this innovative new study Peter Biller challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He investigates medieval thought's capacity to deal with concrete contemporary realities, and sets academic discussions of population alongside the medieval facts of 'birth, and copulation, and death'.

Download or read book The Measure of Multitude written by Peter Biller and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He describes what medieval people 'thought' about population, studying the texts which contained their thought, and examining the medieval realities which shaped it, such as birth, birth-control, sex-ratio, marriage ages, length of life, and the population of the Holy Land.

Download or read book A History of Greek Mathematics written by Sir Thomas Little Heath and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of an authoritative two-volume set that covers the essentials of mathematics and includes every landmark innovation and every important figure. This volume features Euclid, Apollonius, others.

Download or read book A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume I written by Sir Thomas Heath and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of an authoritative two-volume set that covers the essentials of mathematics and features every landmark innovation and every important figure, including Euclid, Apollonius, Archimedes, and others.

Download or read book A History of Greek Mathematics written by Sir Thomas Little Heath and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Greek Mathematics written by T. L. Heath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1921, this rigorous two-volume work traces ancient Greek mathematics from Thales of Miletus to Diophantus of Alexandria.

Download or read book Machiavelli's Romans written by Patrick Coby and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Machiavelli is usually considered a pioneer among modern political philosophers, he read deeply in and was greatly influenced by the works of classical Roman thinkers such as Livy. There is thus a fundamental tension between the modern and the ancient within Machiavelli's philosophy; he is both a precursor to the Enlightenment and a throwback to republican Rome. This is the main thesis behind Patrick Coby's innovative study of the neglected Machiavellian classic Discourses on Livy. Coby argues that scholars have been too quick to dismiss the ancient antecedents of Machiavelli's thought, particularly with regard to the modes and orders of the Roman republic. The book seeks to resolve the central paradox of the Discourses, that Machiavelli recommends adoption of Roman modes and orders even though those modes and orders destroyed the virtu, the strength, which Machiavelli would have moderns resuscitate by imitating Rome. A sophisticated, highly engaging book, Machiavelli's Romans will be of special interest to political theorists, Renaissance scholars, and classicists.