Defending Hypatia : Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History
2010 ed.
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Hardback or Cased Book
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 mathematicsPhilosophy 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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