Beyond the Learned Academy
The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 January 2024
- ISBN 9780198863953
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 240x162x30 mm
- Weight 992 g
- Language English 485
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Short description:
Comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, this volume aims to exemplify the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century.
MoreLong description:
The tremendous growth of the mathematical sciences in the early modern world was reflected contemporaneously in an increasingly sophisticated level of practical mathematics in fields such as merchants' accounts, instrument making, teaching, navigation, and gauging. In many ways, mathematics shaped the knowledge culture of the age, infiltrating workshops, dockyards, and warehouses, before extending through the factories of the Industrial Revolution to the trading companies and banks of the nineteenth century.
While theoretical developments in the history of mathematics have been made the topic of numerous scholarly investigations, in many cases based around the work of key figures such as Descartes, Huygens, Leibniz, or Newton, practical mathematics, especially from the seventeenth century onwards, has been largely neglected.
The present volume, comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, seeks to fill this gap by exemplifying the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I - Navigation, Seafaring, Warfare
'Mecanicall Practises Drawne from the Artes Mathematick': the Mathematical Identity of the Elizabethan Navigator John Davis
Navigation Exams in the Early Modern Period
Mathematical Examiners at Trinity House: Teaching and Examining Mathematics for Navigation in London During the Long Eighteenth Century
What Mathematics for Portuguese Military Engineers? From the Class of Fortification to the Military Academy of Lisbon
Part II - Professions, Societies, and Cultures of Mathematics
Mathematical Men in Humble Life: Philomaths from North-west England as Editors of 'Questions for Answer' Journals
Collection, Use, Dispersal: The Library of Charles Hutton and the Fate of Georgian Mathematics
Mathematics at the Literary and Philosophical Societies
The Evolution of Actuarial Science to 1848
Part III - Mathematical Practitioners and their Scientific Milieus
Assembling the Scribal Self: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli's Circle and Mathematical Practitioners in the Veneto, c. 1580-1606
Mathematical Businesses: Seventeenth-Century Practitioners and their Academic Friends
'All of This Was Born on Paper': The Mathematics of Tunnelling in Eighteenth-Century Metallic Mines
Part IV - The Practice and Teaching of Mathematics
Climbing the Social Ladder: Johannes Faulhaber's Path from Schoolmaster to Fortification Engineer
The Difficult Relation of Surveyors with Algebra: The Hundred Mathematical Questions of Cardinael
The Life Mathematick: John and Euclid Speidell, and the Centrality of Instruments in Seventeenth-Century Pedagogy
James Thomson Senior and Mathematics at the Belfast Academical Institution, 1814-1832
