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“THE great inheritance of mathematical know-X 10dgo which the ancients bequeathed to posterity could not, on the revival of learning, be immediately taken possession of nor could even its existence be discovered, but by degrees . . . The repositories of the ancient treasures were to be opened, and made accessible; the knowledge of the languages was to be acquired; the manuscripts were to be deciphered; and the skill of the grammarian and the critic were to precede, in a certain degree, that of the geometrician or the astronomer . . . The study of the remains of antiquity gradually produced men of taste and intelligence, who were able to correct the faults of the manuscripts they copied, and to explain the difficulties of the authors they translated. Such were Purbach, Regiomontanus, Commandine, Maurolycus, and many others.”
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Smith, EC. Scientific Centenaries in 1936. Nature 137, 11–13 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137011a0
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