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  1. Copernicus autograph - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Copernicus_autograph/

    7 Mar 2023: For a history of how the autograph copy reached the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, see THIS LINK. ... N M Swerdlow, On Establishing the Text of De Revolutionibus, Journal of the History of Astronomy 12 (1981), 35-46.

  2. Poincaré - Inspector of mines - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Poincare_mines/

    7 Mar 2023: Coal was the main fuel during the 18th and 19th centuries and coal mining provided the means for industry to flourish. It certainly played a vital part in French industrial progress, and schools such as the École des Mines provided training for

  3. Neptune and Pluto - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Neptune_and_Pluto/

    7 Mar 2023: The first planet to be discovered was Uranus by William and Caroline Herschel on 13 March 1781. It was discovered by the fact that it showed a disk when viewed through even a fairly low powered telescope. The only other planets which have been

  4. Arabic mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Arabic_mathematics/

    7 Mar 2023: History Exact Sci. 18 (3) (1977/78), 191-243. H Siddykov, The role of the scientists of ancient Khorezm in the development of the exact sciences (Russian), Vestnik Karakalpak.

  5. Greek sources I - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_sources_1/

    7 Mar 2023: T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics I, II (Oxford, 1931).

  6. Cajori history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Cajori_history/

    7 Mar 2023: Again we gain two insights, one into the history of mathematics, the other into Cajori's views:-. ... still persisted were completely ignorant of its history and generally misunderstood the conditions of the problem.

  7. Mathematical games - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Mathematical_games/

    10 Jul 2023: The whole history of mathematics is interwoven with mathematical games which have led to the study of many areas of mathematics. ... They are know known as problems of retrograde analysis and their object is to deduce the past history of a game rather

  8. Ancient Greek mathematics - History Topics - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/category-greeks/

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  9. history of reliability - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/reliability_history/

    7 Mar 2023: We present here the first section on the Brief History of Reliability:. ... A brief history. Reliability, as a human attribute, has been praised for a very long time.

  10. Tartaglia versus Cardan - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Tartaglia_v_Cardan/

    7 Mar 2023: [This article consists of quotes, mainly from Tartaglia, concerning the 'cubic dispute'. For the full context of the quotations below, see the biographies ofand Ferrari. Connecting comments are put in square brackets.]. Zuanne de Tonini da Coi: I