Defending hypatia Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance rediscovery of mathematical history

Why should mathematics, the purest of sciences, have a history? Medieval mathematicians took little interest in the history of their discipline. Yet in the Renaissance the history of mathematics flourished. This book explores how Renaissance scholars recovered and reconstructed the origins of mathem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Goulding, Robert (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Springer 2010.
Colección:Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 25.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009450559406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lineages of Learning
  • Ramus and the History of Mathematics
  • From Plato to Pythagoras: The Scholae mathematicae
  • “To Bring Alexandria to Oxford:” Henry Savile’s 1570 Lectures on Ptolemy
  • The Puzzling Lives of Euclid
  • Rending Hypatia: The Body of the Elements.