Timeline for The meaning and purpose of "canonical''
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:27 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 7, 2020 at 18:32 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | @AnstenKlev Oh yes. Even earlier analogia canonica in Vieta (1579, §§XI, XIX), doctrina canonica in Snellius (1627). I found quite a bit more history that I’ll add here when I have time: Napier, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Cotes, Euler, Lagrange, Gibbs, Milankovic,... also used it; I think it was always more or less tongue-in-cheek for from the Book. | |
| Mar 6, 2020 at 16:54 | comment | added | Ansten Klev | The term aequatio canonica occurs already in Harriot's Artis analyticae praxis, published in 1631, 10 years after the death of its author. Moritz Cantor (vol II, p 791) surmises that this is the earliest occurrence of an expression in this family. | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 19:42 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | @LSpice Either I missed an earlier publication, or they first talked (or corresponded) about it. Everything here suggests “canonical” has a longer oral tradition — much as we might say but not write “God-given”. | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 17:58 | comment | added | LSpice | Do I misunderstand, or are you suggesting that Sylvester in 1851 attributed to Hermite a usage that the latter used in 1854? | |
| Feb 20, 2020 at 7:14 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 20, 2020 at 5:44 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 23:50 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 23:42 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 23:34 | history | answered | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |