Arithmetic in the Thought of Gerbert of Aurillac
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The book deals with Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) and his investigations in the field of theoretical and practical arithmetic. It is mainly based on an analysis of Gerbert's so-called scientific letters. An attention is paid to the philosophy of...
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The book deals with Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) and his investigations in the field of theoretical and practical arithmetic. It is mainly based on an analysis of Gerbert's so-called scientific letters. An attention is paid to the philosophy of numbers (Saltus Gerberti, quadrivium) and practical counting (Hindu-Arabic numerals, abacus).
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The book deals with Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) and his investigations in the field of theoretical (philosophy of numbers) and practical (counting) arithmetic. The book represents the comprehensive inquiry of both these aspects of arithmetic in his thought. The analysed sources are Gerbert's so-called scientific letters written to his friends, colleagues or pupils, and also including some of his other texts. On this basis, attention is paid to arithmetic as the mother of all sciences and as the path to wisdom (e.g., the so-called Saltus Gerberti, relation between arithmetic and other disciplines of the quadrivium, etc.) and also to practical arithmetic (e.g., the introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals and the re-introduction of a new form of abacus to the Latin Christian West).
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Arithmetic as the science of numbersTheoretical arithmetic:
- The Nature of Numbers: Saltus Gerberti (Letter to Constantine)
- Figurative Numbers and Geometry (Letter to Adelbold)
- Music and Harmony (Two Letters to Constantine)
- Astronomy and Timekeeping (Letter De sphaera, Richer's Historia, and the horological letter to Adam)
Practical arithmetic:
- Tabula abaci, decimal positional notation and ghubar numbers
- Regulae multiplicationis
- Regulae divisionis
Autoren-Porträt von Marek Otisk
Marek Otisk is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava. His research interest is focused on medieval philosophy, especially the metaphysics, dialectics (logic), mathematics or astronomy(natural philosophy) in the 10th and 11th centuries (for example Gerbert of Aurillac or Anselm of Canterbury).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Marek Otisk
- 2022, Neuausgabe, 242 Seiten, 63 Abbildungen, Maße: 14,8 x 21 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 3631858167
- ISBN-13: 9783631858165
Sprache:
Englisch
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