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How, when and why Plato's "Ideas" were changed to "Forms" in English translations?
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Is Riemann's involving in Bergson's philosophy just "fashionable nonsense"?
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Why does Aristotle write 'astrology' when Plato writes 'astronomy'?
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Plato's chemical formula for water
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Sets of Five in Plato
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Legendre's original text on elliptic functions
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how sophisticated was Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics compared to the Greeks
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