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Helena M. Pycior, Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglement. British Algebra through the Commentaries On Newton's Universal Arithmetick

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Peckhaus, V. Helena M. Pycior, Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglement. British Algebra through the Commentaries On Newton's Universal Arithmetick. Erkenntnis 49, 415–419 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005410218357

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