Aristotelian logic and Euclidean mathematics : seventeenth-century developments of the Quaestio de certitudine mathematicarum / Paolo Mancosu.
Abstract:
'The aim of this paper is to show that the "Quaestio de certitudine mathematicarum" had a diffusion which reached, geographically, as far as England and Poland and chronologically as far as the 1670s. I will analyse the contributions to the "Quaestio" by Smiglecius, Wallis, Hobbes, Barrow and Gassendi. It is my claim that the material I present gives an unequivocally positive answer to the problem of continuity raised in Jardine's article: great portions of the epistemological, and more generally philosophical, reflection on mathematics in the 17th century cannot be understood without referring back to the Renaissance debates on the "Quaestio".'
Studies in history and philosophy of science Vol. 23 (1992), p. 241-265