The volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical texts across different social milieus.
The volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical texts across different social milieus.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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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