Ralph Vaughan Williams

no sign that anything of the same kind was attempted in western Europe at all. Paul Lawrence Rose has pointed out the ‘failure’ (if one wants to pass judgment) of the scholastics to do anything useful with the major translations of Archimedes, by William van Moerbeke in the thirteenth century. Why were Moerbeke’s mathematical translations neglected? [True,] there are indications that Moerbeke was not at home with the mathematics of his subject. Yet the reason for the neglect lies not with the quality