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  • Babylonian mathematical tablet
    In mathematics: The universities

    …quantification of qualities, the so-called latitude of forms, began to be discussed at about this time in Paris and in Merton College. Various Aristotelian qualities (e.g., heat, density, and velocity) were assigned an intensity and extension, which were sometimes represented by the height and bases (respectively) of a geometric figure.…

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