
Beyond the Learned Academy
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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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