Oxford's Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy

The First 400 Years
Herausgeber: Hollings, Christopher; McCartney, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume traces the varied history of Oxford's Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy through the first four centuries of its existence, combining contributions from historians of medicine, science, mathematics, and universities with personal reminiscences of some of the more recent holders of the post.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 208mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780192843210
• ISBN-10: 0192843214
• Artikelnr.: 68475959

Autorenporträt

Christopher D. Hollings is a Lecturer in Mathematics and its History at the University of Oxford. Mark McCartney is a senior lecturer in mathematics at Ulster University and a former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1: Christopher D. Hollings: Four Centuries of Sedleian Professors
2: Alastair Compston: Thomas Willis
3: Nigel Aston: The Sedleian Professors of Eighteenth Century: a Theological Turn?
4: Jim Bennett: Thomas Hornsby
5: Christopher D. Hollings: George Leigh Cooke
6: Christopher D. Hollings: Bartholomew Price
7: June Barrow-Green: Augustus Love
8: Peter Cargill: Sydney Chapman
9: Mark McCartney: George Temple and Albert Green
10: Tom Mullin and John Toland: Brooke Benjamin
11: Mark McCartney: An Interview with John Ball