On the Shoulders of Hipparchus
@article{Acerbi2003OnTS,
title={On the Shoulders of Hipparchus},
author={Fabio Acerbi},
journal={Archive for History of Exact Sciences},
year={2003},
volume={57},
pages={465-502},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:122758966}
}L'A. decrit le parcours des nombres d'Hipparque qui ont ete reevalues pour les calculs combinatoires de la Grece ancienne et interprete ces nombres par rapport a la logique stoicienne
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