HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Trotula, Conifer Cone, Pineapple
17 Nov 2020
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By the thirteenth century, however, a new medical school opened up at montpellier in southern france, and as it rose to prominence salerno and trotula declined in influence. More solid achievements were made in mathematics, geometry, and astronomy. In the 1120s adelard of bath, who learned arabic in sicily, translated an arabized version of euclid"s work on geometry and "al-khwarizmi"s treatise on trigonometry. "al-khwarizmi (800 847) is usually credited with having introduced arabic numerals which actually originated in india to the west. 1230). sometimes known as leonardo pisanus or leonardo of pisa. He made his mark in 1202 when he published his book on the abacus. he explored the possibilities of decimal-based mathematics: fibonacci developed the algebraic formula to express this sequence; it is called a recursion relation. The significance of the formula, is that it describes a surprising number of natural phenomena.
