Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts, edited by Niccolò Guicciardini, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, xxvi + 366 pp., $140 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-83496-4 [Book Review]

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If anachronism is an historian's unforgivable sin, as Lucien Fèbvre told us long ago, it is nonetheless unavoidable, if only in the sense that we are constrained by our own point of view, anchored...

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