Nine articles reproduced from earlier publications focus on the identity of the Latin translators responsible for transmitting Arabic learning to Europe and the context in which they were working. Bur
This volume, the third by Charles Burnett in the Variorum series, brings together articles on the different numeral forms used in the Middle Ages, and their use in mathematical and other contexts. Som
After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical pe