Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books

Author:   Philip Beeley ,  Yelda Nasifoglu ,  Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367609252


Pages:   332
Publication Date:   21 October 2020
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Author:   Philip Beeley ,  Yelda Nasifoglu ,  Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367609252


ISBN 10:   0367609258
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   21 October 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Did Euclid prove Elements I, 1? The early modern debate on intersections and continuity Vincenzo De Risi Chapter 2 Numbers and Paths: Henry Savile’s manuscript treatises on the Euclidean theory of proportion Robert Goulding Chapter 3 Reading by Drawing. The changing nature of mathematical diagrams in seventeenth-century England Yelda Nasifoglu Chapter 4 Interpreting Mathematical Error: Tycho’s problematic diagram and readers’ responses Renee Raphael Chapter 5 Reading Mathematics in the English Collegiate-Humanist Universities Mordechai Feingold Chapter 6 Tutor, Antiquarian, and Almost a Practitioner: Brian Twyne’s readings of mathematics Richard J. Oosterhoff Chapter 7 The Origin and Development of the Savilian Library William Poole Chapter 8 ‘A designe Inchoate’. Edward Bernard’s planned edition of Euclid and its scholarly afterlife in late seventeenth-century Oxford Philip Beeley Chapter 9 ‘The Admonitions of a good-natured Reader’: Marks of use in Georgian mathematical textbooks Benjamin Wardhaugh Chapter 10 Instrumental Reading: Towards a typology of use in early modern practical mathematical texts Boris Jardine Chapter 11 ‘Several Choice Collections’ in Geometry, Astronomy, and Chronology: Using and collecting mathematics in early modern England Kevin Tracey

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This volume meets the highest standards for an academic publication, whilst remaining very accessible for the general reader. This book should definitely be read by all those interested in the history of mathematics in the Early Modern Period and in fact by anybody interested in the history of mathematics. Thony Christie, The Renaissance Mathematicus


Author Information

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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