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Flicker in the Darkness

Nicole Oresme and the Medieval Geometry of Qualities and Motions

Edited with an Introduction, English Translation and Commentary by Marshall Clagett. (A Treatise on the Uniformity and Difformity of Intensities known as Tractatus de Configurationibus Qualitatum et Motuum.) Pp. xiii + 713. (University of Wisconsin Press: Madison and London, September 1968.) $15; 143s.

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ROSENFELD, L. Flicker in the Darkness. Nature 222, 197–198 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222197a0

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