The Geometrical Background to the “Merton School”: An Exploration into the Application of Mathematics to Natural Philosophy in the Fourteenth Century

British Journal for the History of Science 4 (2):108-125 (1968)
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Abstract

At the end of the last century Paul Tannery published an article on geometry in eleventh-century Europe, which he began with the following statement:“This is not a chapter in the history of science; it is a study of ignorance, in a period immediately before the introduction into the West of Arab mathematics.”

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