Akribeia: Certainty and Ontology of Mathematics in Alessandro Piccolomini's De certitudine mathematicarum

Akribeia: Certainty and Ontology of Mathematics in Alessandro Piccolomini's De certitudine mathematicarum

Campillo Bo, Alvaro Jose

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Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables



1 Introduction

?1.1?Mathematical Akribology: a Perennial Question

?1.2?Piccolomini's Intellectual Background to De certitudine

?1.3?De certitudine Mathematicarum: Themes and Hermeneutical Keys

?1.4?State of the Art

?1.5?Reassessing Piccolomini's Text

?1.6?The Map of This Book



2 Piccolomini's Sources and Context

?2.1?Proclus in the Latin Context and Neoplatonic Themes in De certitudine

?2.2?Phantasia: Ontology and Epistemology

?2.3?Certitudo mathematica: a Historical Inquiry

?2.4?Anti-mathematical Attitudes in the 16th-Century Italian Context

?2.5?Pseudo-Aristotle's Quaestiones mechanicae

?2.6?Demonstratio potissima



3 De Certitudine Mathematicarum

?3.1?Piccolomini's demonstratio potissima: a Truncated regressus

?3.2?Mathematical Analysis and demonstratio potissima

?3.3?Euclid's I.32: Formal Flaws of Mathematical Demonstration

?3.4?Quasi ?????????: Piccolomini's Denial of Mathematical Causality

?3.5?Piccolomini's Philosophy of Mathematics

?3.6?Mathematising the Unmathematical: Back to the Mertonian Challenge

?3.7?Common Mathematics and De certitudine's Consistency: a Hypothesis



Conclusions

Appendix

Bibliography

?Manuscripts

?Primary Sources

?Secondary Sources

Index of Manuscripts

Index of Ancient Authors

Index of Modern Authors
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