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Collection of quotes on notation design & how it affects thought.
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Netz, "Counter Culture" #19

Open jrus opened 6 years ago

jrus commented 6 years ago

I recently enjoyed reading this paper by Netz (2002) about the Ancient Greek use of counters as a tool of thought:

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?db_key=AST&bibcode=2002HisSc..40..321N&letter=.&classic=YES&defaultprint=YES&whole_paper=YES&page=321&epage=321&send=Send+PDF&filetype=.pdf

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=860996077996231654

kai-qu commented 6 years ago

Thanks! Are there any particular sections/quotes that you think might be a good fit for the syllabus?

jrus commented 6 years ago

The whole paper is pretty interesting. I'll take a look tomorrow to see if there are any particular paragraphs which serve as a good summary.