Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Did Euclid prove Elements I, 1? The early modern debate on intersections and continuity

Vincenzo De Risi

Chapter 2 Numbers and Paths: Henry Savile's manuscript treatises on the Euclidean theory of proportion

Robert Goulding

Chapter 3 Reading by Drawing. The changing nature of mathematical diagrams in seventeenth-century England

Yelda Nasifoglu

Chapter 4 Interpreting Mathematical Error: Tycho's problematic diagram and readers' responses

Renee Raphael

Chapter 5 Reading Mathematics in the English Collegiate-Humanist Universities

Mordechai Feingold

Chapter 6 Tutor, Antiquarian, and Almost a Practitioner: Brian Twyne's readings of mathematics

Richard J. Oosterhoff

Chapter 7 The Origin and Development of the Savilian Library

William Poole

Chapter 8 'A designe Inchoate'. Edward Bernard's planned edition of Euclid and its scholarly afterlife in late seventeenth-century Oxford

Philip Beeley

Chapter 9 'The Admonitions of a good-natured Reader': Marks of use in Georgian mathematical textbooks

Benjamin Wardhaugh

Chapter 10 Instrumental Reading: Towards a typology of use in early modern practical mathematical texts

Boris Jardine

Chapter 11 'Several Choice Collections' in Geometry, Astronomy, and Chronology: Using and collecting mathematics in early modern England

Kevin Tracey