ABSTRACT Precedential authority has an important place in doctrinal explication and analysis in Anglo-American law. Efforts to manage these precedents visually, in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, display a variety of solutions to the question of where precedents belong and how to represent them. Sir Edward Coke’s approach, in his Institutes (1628–44), was to place the citations in the margin; this way of managing textual authority connected legal concepts in a way that lent new significance to the citations. The discussion examines this development by considering it in relation to the introduction of perspective in visual art, in the early fifteenth century, and the use of infinitesimals in the new mathematics of the early seventeenth century.

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权威的边缘：可口可乐的研究所和字符串引用的认识论

摘要优先权在英美法系的教义解释和分析中占有重要地位。在十六世纪和十七世纪的英格兰，以视觉方式管理这些先例的努力显示出各种解决方案，以解决先例在何处以及如何代表先例的问题。爱德华·可可爵士在他的研究所（1628–44）中的做法是将引文置于空白处。这种管理文本权限的方式将法律概念连接起来，对引用产生了新的意义。讨论通过考虑与15世纪初期视觉艺术中视角的引入以及在17世纪初期新数学中使用无穷小有关的问题来研究这种发展。