Beyond the Learned Academy

Name: Beyond the Learned Academy | The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850
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The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850

Philip Beeley Christopher Hollings(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 22. Januar 2024

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1: Philip Beeley and Christopher Hollings: Introduction
Part I - Navigation, Seafaring, Warfare
2: Jim Bennett: 'Mecanicall Practises Drawne from the Artes Mathematick': the Mathematical Identity of the Elizabethan Navigator John Davis
3: Margaret E. Schotte: Navigation Exams in the Early Modern Period
4: Rebekah Higgitt: Mathematical Examiners at Trinity House: Teaching and Examining Mathematics for Navigation in London During the Long Eighteenth Century
5: João Caramalho Domingues: 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
6: Sloan Evans Despeaux and Brigitte Stenhouse: Mathematical Men in Humble Life: Philomaths from North-west England as Editors of 'Questions for Answer' Journals
7: Benjamin Wardhaugh: Collection, Use, Dispersal: The Library of Charles Hutton and the Fate of Georgian Mathematics
8: Christopher D. Hollings: Mathematics at the Literary and Philosophical Societies
9: David R. Bellhouse: The Evolution of Actuarial Science to 1848
Part III - Mathematical Practitioners and their Scientific Milieus
10: Stefano Gulizia: Assembling the Scribal Self: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli's Circle and Mathematical Practitioners in the Veneto, c. 1580-1606
11: Philip Beeley: Mathematical Businesses: Seventeenth-Century Practitioners and their Academic Friends
12: Thomas Morel: 'All of This Was Born on Paper': The Mathematics of Tunnelling in Eighteenth-Century Metallic Mines
Part IV - The Practice and Teaching of Mathematics
13: Ivo Schneider: Climbing the Social Ladder: Johannes Faulhaber's Path from Schoolmaster to Fortification Engineer
14: Albrecht Heeffer: The Difficult Relation of Surveyors with Algebra: The Hundred Mathematical Questions of Cardinael
15: Boris Jardine: The Life Mathematick: John and Euclid Speidell, and the Centrality of Instruments in Seventeenth-Century Pedagogy
16: Mark McCartney: James Thomson Senior and Mathematics at the Belfast Academical Institution, 1814-1832

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