Assembles the twentieth-century philosopher's ideas and conclusions regarding issues and problems pertaining to word usage.

Above all, the book illuminates the niches protected and financed by the Catholic Church in which science and mathematics thrived.

Examines how citizens and the political leadership of two cities dealt with controversial court orders to end the segregation of public schools.

Originally published in 1996, this book contains a translation and study of Euclid's Phaenomena, a work which once formed part of the mathematical training of astronomers from Central Asia to Western Europe.

This work offers a survey of the military history of Mughal India during the age of imperial splendour from 1500 to 1700.

Gathered now in this volume are the best of Ackrill's essays on the two greatest philosophers of antiquity.

In this selection of studies, J.L. Mancha explores aspects of the development of medieval optics and astronomy, including some medieval antecedents of the work of early modern astronomers.