Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College : studies in the intellectual history of London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /: studies in the intellectual history of London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Francis Ames-Lewis.
• Other Names: Ames-Lewis, Francis, 1943-
• Contents: Contents: Introduction; Francis Ames-Lewis; Reconstructing London: Sir Thomas Gresham and Bishopsgate, Ann Saunders; Sir Thomas and the ’House of Gresham’: activities of a mercer-merchant adventurer, Ian Blanchard; Citizen and mercer: Sir Thomas Gresham and the social and political world of the city of London, Vanessa Harding; Failed transmission: Sir Thomas Gresham, reproduction, and the background to Gresham’s professorship of physic, Margaret Pelling; Early insurance in and around the Royal Exchange, Trevor Sibbett; Sculpture at the Royal Exchange in the seventeenth century, Katharine Gibson; Civic rhetoric, 1560-1640, Lynette Hunter; Plato in the Tudor academies, Sarah Hutton; Testimonia humanitatis: the early lectures of Henry Savile, Robert Goulding; ’No small force’: natural philosophy and mathematics in Thomas Gresham’s London, Stephen Clucas; Gresham College and London practitioners: the nature of the English mathematical community, Mordechai Feingold; Christopher Wren’s Greshamite history of astronomy and geometry, Jim Bennett; Why translate Serlio?, J.V. Field; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 332/.092 B; Philanthropists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Diplomats -- Great Britain -- Biography; Merchants -- Great Britain -- Biography; History; Commerce; Diplomats; Intellectual life; Merchants; Philanthropists; Universiteiten; Wetenschappelijk onderwijs; Geestesgeschiedenis; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Biography; London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century; England -- London; Great Britain; Biography; History; Biographies; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351899925; 1351899929
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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