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Acts of Geometrical Construction in the Spherics of Theodosios

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Two ways of talking about mathematics, the ideal agents of Philip Kitcher and Brian Rotman, and David Wells' s analogy to abstract games like chess and go, are brought together and put to the test on the Hellenistic mathematical text Spherics by Theodosios. The subject of agents or players, as in a game or play, is discussed.

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    Robert Thomas

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  1. School for International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Nathan Sidoli

  2. Quest University, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

    Glen Van Brummelen

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Thomas, R. (2014). Acts of Geometrical Construction in the Spherics of Theodosios. In: Sidoli, N., Van Brummelen, G. (eds) From Alexandria, Through Baghdad. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36736-6_11

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