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  • Mathematical Book Histories

    Printing, Provenance, and Practices of Reading

    Edited by Philip Beeley, Ciarán Mac an Bhaird ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book both articulates and responds to increasing scholarly interest in the materiality of the book. Taking as its base the unique collection of mathematical books in the Russell Library at Maynooth, it addresses questions related to printing techniques and print culture, book production, provenance, and reading practices. It considers the histories of individual items of the Russell ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Beyond the Learned Academy

    The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850

    Edited by Philip Beeley, Christopher Hollings ...
    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 ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe

    Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books

    Edited by Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu, Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for exploring the nature of mathematical reading and the ways in which mathematics was disseminated and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy

    Edited by Philip Beeley, David Rabouin, Norma B. Goethe ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Up to now there have been scarcely any publications on Leibniz dedicated to investigating the interrelations between philosophy and mathematics in his thought. In part this is due to the previously restricted textual basis of editions such as those produced by Gerhardt. Through recent volumes of the scientific letters and mathematical papers series of the Academy Edition scholars have obtained a ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • You Could Look It Up

    The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

    by Jack Lynch ...
    "Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries.You Could Look It Up chronicles ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics

    Edited by Eleanor Robson, Jacqueline Stedall ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how. A broader understanding of mathematical practitioners naturally leads to a new appreciation of what counts as a historical source. Material and oral ... Read more

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  • Reckoning with Matter

    Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage

    by Matthew L. Jones ...
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  • Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

    by R.J.W. Evans ...
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    Series Book 145 - Ideas in Context
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  • Projecting Spirits

    Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media

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  • Thomas Harriot

    An Elizabethan Man of Science

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    This volume assembles ten studies of the life and work of Thomas Harriot (1560-1621). These are based on lectures that have been given annually at Oriel College, Oxford since 1990, by such authorities as Hugh Trevor Roper, David Quinn and John D. North. An astronomer and mathematician whose activities embraced not only science but also philosophical debate and an engagement in the early ... Read more

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