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Results for 'benjamin wardhaugh'
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Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe
Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical BooksThe volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical texts across different social milieus.
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John Wallis: Writings on Music
John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions w
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The Book of Wonders
The Many Lives of Euclid’s ElementsEuclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.
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The Book of Wonders
The Many Lives of Euclid’s ElementsEuclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.
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Gunpowder and Geometry
The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific RebelAugust, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.
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John Birchensha: Writings on Music
’Reading this volume increases one's curiosity about the place of the Royal Society within Resoration London's musical life... This is a substantial volume, well indexed and with quite an extensive bibliography; it will be of particular interest to specialists in music theory, but it also gives some valuable glimpses of the wider intellectual climate of Restoration London.’ The Consort ’The volume represents the ne plus ultra for a scholarly edition. Not a name, concept or source is mentioned that does not receive a gloss or complete commentary. The introductions and critical apparatuses themselves could serve as a bibliographical entrée to the scholarship of mid-17th-century music theory...a magisterial achievement and certainly the last word in presenting the ideas of this erudite musician caught in the spirit of the Scientific Revolution as he struggled to apply mathematics to the art of music.’ Early Music '... not only a comprehensive collection of Birchensha's writings, but also a fascinating account, both through those writings and the editors' extensive and sensitive commentary upon them, of the career and personality of this 'rare artist'... The editors' contribution both to the conception and execution of this volume is commendable, especially in the extended notes to each chapter which clarify terminology both musical and mathematical, fill in indispensable context, and cross-reference with other theoretical texts. The lengthy Introduction, too, provides a concise and informative account of Birchensha's life and an invaluable overview of his writings and their many interrelationships; it will surely remain the standard biographical account for many years to come. The transcription is exemplary in its clarity and attention to detail.' Viola da Gamba Society Journal '... comprehensive and authoritative... The main achievement of this volume is [...] to make available in a critical edition a body of work, much of which was previously unknown and
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John Birchensha: Writings on Music
John Birchensha (c 1605-1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s. This book allows scholars to see how Birchensha's rules and theories developed over a period of fifteen years.
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The Compendium Musicae of Rene Descartes
Early English Responses€ 151,95 -
How to Read Historical Mathematics
Writings by early mathematicians feature language and notations that are quite different from what we're familiar with today. Sourcebooks on the history of mathematics provide some guidance, but what has been lacking is a guide tailored to the needs of readers approaching these writings for the first time. This book intends to fill this gap.
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A Wealth of Numbers
An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics WritingAn anthology that gathers together nearly one hundred selections from the past 500 years of popular math writing. Ranging from the late fifteenth to the late twentieth century, and drawing from books, newspapers, magazines, and websites, it includes recreational, classroom, and work mathematics; mathematical histories and biographies; and, more.
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The Correspondence of Charles Hutton
Mathematical Networks in Georgian BritainThis book is the first edition of the surviving correspondence of celebrated Georgain mathematician and educator Charles Hutton (1737-1823).
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The History of the History of Mathematics
Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesAt a time of increasing interest in the history of mathematics, this book presents seven case studies illustrating the different ways that mathematical histories have been written since the seventeenth century, ranging from the 'historia' of John Wallis to the re-presentation of Thomas Harriot's manuscripts online.
€ 59,95