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languages but of centuries of accumulated audile-tactile
experience into visual terms. Therefore what Huizinga and Villari
stress as vivid and new in the applied historical antiquarianism
will be found to prove equally characteristic in mathematics
and science and economics.
Medieval idols of the king
* The mounting passion for visualizing knowledge and
separating functions in the later Middle Ages is given extensive
documentation in a major study by Ernst H. Kantorowicz. The
King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology
illustrates in detail how medieval jurists were animated by the
same passion that led later medieval scientists to separate
kinematics and dynamics, as is described by A. C. Crombie in
Medieval and Early Modern Science.