The Elephant's Footprint: An Ancient Indian Logic Diagram
A seminal article by Margaret Baron, published in 1969, explored the history of set diagrams (Venn diagrams). However, Baron did not look beyond the evidence of European sources. This article presents evidence of a literary simile from ancient India that exemplifies the idea of a larger circle inclu...
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Studia Orientalia Electronica
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Pages: 56-61 |
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