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In this chapter a brief survey of the tradition of geometrical analysis in Antiquity will be attempted. It will appear that although geometrical analysis was sometimes used as a methodological paradigm, frequently mathematicians’ and philosophers’ interpretation of the geometrical method was conversely influenced by their philosophical and methodological ideas1.
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Hinitikka, J., Remes, U. (1974). Pappus and the Tradition of Geometrical Analysis. In: The Method of Analysis. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2296-5_8
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