In this paper, I examine aspects of the methodological debate that originated in 2010, when the distinguished historian of mathematics Sabetai Unguru reviewed Roshdi Rashed’s edition of the Arabic translation of Apollonius’ Conics. In his review, Unguru criticized what Rashed calls “l’usage instrumental d’une autre mathématique pour commenter une oeuvre ancienne”. I consider this debate very important and will try to place it within in the discussion of the so-called “geometric algebra” that goes back to the seventies, by tracing the contributions of the main figures who took part in it. Published Online (2021-04-30)Copyright © 2021 by Aldo Brigaglia Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/37627/28622 Corresponding Author: Aldo Brigaglia,University of PalermoE-Mail: aldo.brigaglia@gmail.com

Original publication: Brigaglia, Aldo. "Remarks on the Historiography of Mathematics." Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science 1: 2021. 205-222. DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v1i1.37627. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science. Copyright © the author(s). Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.