SOURCE: “The Universal Machine and Chronology in the Early Modern Period,” in The Ordering of Time: From the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer, translated by Andrew Winnard, University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp. 101-12.
In the following essay, Borst highlights the relationship between calendar-making and advancements in computational mathematics in the sixteenth century.
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