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The chapter on Methodological Issues surveys summarily the methodological debate initiated with the publication in 1975 of Sabetai Unguru’s article “On the Need to Rewrite the History of Greek Mathematics” in the Archive for History of Exact Sciences. It includes, in addition to that article, the responses, in the same journal, of B.L. van der Waerden and André Weil, as well as Unguru’s rejoinder to those, and other, responses (for example, Hans Freudenthal’s), published in Isis.
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Unguru, S.: “On the Need to Rewrite the History of Greek Mathematics,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 15 (1975), pp. 67–114.
Unguru, S.: “History of Ancient Mathematics: Some Reflections on the State of the Art,” Isis, 70 (1979), pp. 555–565.
Van der Waerden, B.L.: “Defence of a ‘Shocking’ Point of View,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 15 (1976), pp. 199–210.
Weil, A.: “Who Betrayed Euclid? (Extract from a Letter to the Editor)”, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 19 (1978), pp. 91–93.
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Unguru, S. (2004). Introduction. In: Christianidis, J. (eds) Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 240. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2640-9_21
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