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A N Whitehead addresses the British Association in 1916 - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/BA_1916_1/7 Mar 2023: An epic poem is a triumph of organisation, that is to say, it is a triumph in the unlikely event of it being a good epic poem. ... Science is the organisation of thought. But the example of the epic poem warns us that science is not any organisation of
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Michael Scot (1175 - 1235) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Scot/20 Aug 2023: inferno in Dante Alighieri's epic poem, The Divine Comedy only to be "rescued" much later on in Sir Walter Scott's poem Lay of the Last Minstrel.
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William Whewell (1794 - 1866) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whewell/25 Sep 2023: poetic gifts since, in 1814, he won the Chancellor's prize for an epic poem he wrote entitled Boadicea.
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On the origin of the Fibonacci Sequence T.C. Scotta, ... PDF (2194k)
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/fibonacci.pdf4 Nov 2017: Although well viewed by the papal author-ities around 1227, he would acquire the sinister reputation of a wizard andwould be condemned in the inferno in Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, ... The Di-vine Comedy (albeit “rescued” much later on in Sir
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Science at St Andrews - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Turnbull_science/7 Mar 2023: survives. William Wilkie, who succeeded Young, is one of the picturesque figures of his century: he is better known for his epic poem, the Epigoniad, than for his natural philosophy, but,