The Libro de la anathomía del hombre is an exemplary case of a genre of medicomoral works that peaked in the Early Middle Ages and were still seen during the Renaissance. Although it is not, strictly speaking, an original treatise, it presents some relevant characteristics: it was the first anatomy treatise to be written in Spanish; epistemologically, it represents a turning point between Galen...

this article is devoted to kamāl al-dīn al-fārsī’s (d. 1319) additions to some remarks contained in book xiii of al-ṭūsī’s taḥrīr uṣūl al-handasa, concerning the construction of a semi-regular polyhedron inscribed into a sphere using the movement as a way for the construction. this treatise is one treatise among ten found in a codex preserved at the bibliothèque nationale de tunis.

athir al-din al-abhari has a treatise bibliographies have called “thamani ‘ashra mas’ala fi al-kalam” (i.e., 18 problems in theology) or “al-mas’il” (i.e. the problems), but our findings show that its real name is “tahrir al-dalail fi taqrir al-masa’il” (i.e. the introduction of arguments for the establishment of the problems). the treatise, which is presumably his only writing in kalam, contai...

current study owes much to Schmitt's scholarship. He died in April 1986. This volume collects essays by scholars of diverse backgrounds as a tribute to Schmitt's achievements. Several essays extend and develop work begun by Schmitt: Eckhard Kessler provides a useful review of how Renaissance Aristotelianism is interrelated to Renaissance humanism and Platonism; through an examination of the tre...

Why am I writing this document? Because when I first entered the world of cryptography, there were certain common-sense maxims which were passed around such as to design a cryptosystem, you must first think like a cryptanalyst or anybody can make a cryptosystem which they themselves cannot break. For most people, these maxims could be summarized simply as don’t roll your own crypto. Anyone who ...

Hume presents two definitions of cause in his Enquiry which correspond to his two definitions in his Treatise. The first of the definitions is ontological and the second is psychological; indeed, the definitions are extensionally and intensionally distinct. The critical mistake of the skeptical interpretation is the assumption that the two definitions are equivalent, and the critical mistake of...