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Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe

Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
332 Seiten
Englisch
Taylor & Franciserschienen am31.05.2023
The volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical texts across different social milieus.mehr
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KlappentextThe volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical texts across different social milieus.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-367-60926-9
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum31.05.2023
Seiten332 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 19 mm
Gewicht467 g
Artikel-Nr.11189796
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1 Did Euclid prove Elements I, 1? The early modern debate on intersections and continuityVincenzo De RisiChapter 2 Numbers and Paths: Henry Savile´s manuscript treatises on the Euclidean theory of proportionRobert GouldingChapter 3 Reading by Drawing. The changing nature of mathematical diagrams in seventeenth-century EnglandYelda NasifogluChapter 4 Interpreting Mathematical Error: Tycho´s problematic diagram and readers´ responsesRenee RaphaelChapter 5 Reading Mathematics in the English Collegiate-Humanist UniversitiesMordechai FeingoldChapter 6 Tutor, Antiquarian, and Almost a Practitioner: Brian Twyne´s readings of mathematicsRichard J. OosterhoffChapter 7 The Origin and Development of the Savilian LibraryWilliam PooleChapter 8 A designe Inchoate´. Edward Bernard´s planned edition of Euclid and its scholarly afterlife in late seventeenth-century OxfordPhilip BeeleyChapter 9 The Admonitions of a good-natured Reader´: Marks of use in Georgian mathematical textbooksBenjamin WardhaughChapter 10 Instrumental Reading: Towards a typology of use in early modern practical mathematical textsBoris JardineChapter 11 Several Choice Collections´ in Geometry, Astronomy, and Chronology: Using and collecting mathematics in early modern EnglandKevin Traceymehr

Autor

Philip Beeley is research fellow and tutor in the Faculty of History and Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford. The focus of his research and publications is on correspondence networks and the history of mathematics in the seventeenth century.

Yelda Nasifoglu is a historian of early modern mathematics and architecture, and an associate member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Her research interests include mathematical diagrams, non-representational uses of drawing, and book collecting practices in the early modern period.

Benjamin Wardhaugh is a historian and author based in Oxford, UK, and a former fellow of All Souls College. His interests range across the history of mathematics and the ways mathematics has been part of human cultures.
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