@inbook{10.3138/9781442689404.15, ISBN = {9780802097958}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442689404.15}, abstract = {I recall with a still lively amazement a conversation I had with Amos Funkenstein at one of our monthly lunches a few years ago. Usually our talk related to the questions in which he was particularly interested, and I played the role of Simplicio to his Salviati. On this occasion, however, I thought that at last I could introduce a subject that I could dominate. I had been doing some geometry to preserve my sanity during an administrative stint and had solved one or two problems in ways I thought amusing. I gave him the problems; he said that he}, author = {J.L. HEILBRON}, booktitle = {Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein}, pages = {227--278}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {Francesco Bianchini, Historian. In Memory of Amos Funkenstein}, year = {2008} }