A Matter of Great Magnitude: The Conflic
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Joel A. Goldstein
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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English editions of Euclid's Elements clashed over the arithmetization of mathematics. The editions of Henry Billingsley, Claude Dechales, and Isaac Barrow from the 16th and 17th centuries paid relatively little attention to mathematical primacy. In the 18th century, however, William Whiston asserte