Reading mathematics in early modern Europe : studies in the production, collection, and use of mathematical books /: studies in the production, collection, and use of mathematical books. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu and Benjamin Wardhaugh.
• Editors: Beeley, Philip; Nasifoglu, Yelda; Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979-
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 510.9409031; Mathematics -- Europe -- History; Mathematics -- Europe -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics -- Europe -- Textbooks; Books and reading -- Europe -- History; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000207477; 9781000207392; 9781000207439; 9781003102557
• Related ISBNs: 9780367609252
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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