HIST 350: Decolonial Histories of Mathematics and Astronomy (HC)

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                  Levi ben Gerson's Prognostication for the conjunction of 1345

                     Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344.; Goldstein, Bernard R.; Pingree, David, 1933-2005.; Muris, Johannes de, approximately 1300-approximately 1350.  American Philosophical Society, 1990.