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More than a century before printing, scientists at Merton
College, Oxford, developed a theorem of “a uniform acceleration
and a movement uniform at the speed possessed by the
uniformly accelerating body at the middle instant of the time of
acceleration.” With the invention of uniform repeatable and
movable types we enter further into this medieval world of
measurable quantities. What Clagett does is to establish the
lines of continuity between Greek visual analysis and medieval
science, and to show how much further the scholastic mind
pushed the Greek concepts.
The Merton kinematics spread to Italy and France. This
was an idea for translating motion into visual terms:
The basic idea of the system is simple. Geometric figures,
particularly areas, can be used to represent the quantity