An early 15th-century algebra codex: A description

Potential causes of 15th century Arctic warming

Potential causes of 15th century Arctic warming using coupled model simulations with data assimilation E. Crespin, H. Goosse, T. Fichefet, and M. E. Mann Université catholique de Louvain, Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaı̂tre, Chemin du Cyclotron, 2, 1348 Louvain la Neuve, Belgium Department of Meteorology, Department of Geosciences, and Earth and Environmental Systems Instit...

Transfusion of Blood in 15th Century

Tonal Patterns in the 15th Century: A Corpus-Based Approach

This paper investigates the tonal patterns in the 15 th century from a corpus-based approach, focusing on two historical sources, 日 本 館 譯 語 Rìbĕn kuăn yìyŭ ‘A Wordlist of Chinese-Japanese Phrases’ and 朝 鮮 館 譯 語 Cháoxiān kuăn yìyŭ ‘A Wordlist of ChineseKorean Phrases’. The results suggest that Japanese and Korean are signiifcantly different in the phonetic transcription of low tone in monosyllab...

Introducing death: a 15th century Croatian Glagolitic literary text.

We explored the notions of life and death as perceived and presented in a 15th century Croatian literary text, Slovo Mestra Polikarpa, in which master Polikarp, a well-learned man of medieval times, engages in a lengthy dialogue with Death itself. This contrast/debate is a rare piece of medieval literature, not only by its Old Croatian language, but also by the angular Glagolitic script in whic...

Reading Luca Pacioli’s Summa in Catalonia: An early 16th-century Catalan manuscript on algebra and arithmetic ✩

This paper focuses on an anonymous Catalan manuscript of the early 16th century dealing with algebra and commercial arithmetic. More than half of it consists of a series of notes concerning parts of Luca Pacioli’s Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalità, while most of the rest is related to Joan Ventallol’s commercial arithmetic (1521). The use of a new kind of diagrams ...