Defending Hypatia : Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History

Name: Defending Hypatia
Brand: Springer
SKU: 9789048135417
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ISBN: 9789048135417

2010 ed.

by Robert Goulding

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Format Hardback

Book Series Archimedes

ISBN-10 9048135419

ISBN-13 9789048135417

Edition 2010 ed.

Publisher Springer

Imprint Springer

Country of Manufacture NL

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 21st, 2010

Print length 5 Pages

Product Classification: History of mathematics Philosophy of science

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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 mathematics.

IntroductionChapter 1: Lineages of LearningChapter 2: Ramus and the History of MathematicsChapter 3: From Plato to Pythagoras: The Scholae mathematicaeChapter 4: ''''To Bring Alexandria to Oxford''''- Henry Savile''s1570 Lectures on PtolemyChapter 5: The Puzzling Lives of EuclidChapter 6: Rending Hypatia: The Body of the ElementsConclusion; Appendices; Bibliography

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