Beyond the learned academy : the practice of mathematics, 1600-1850 / edited by Philip Beeley and Christopher D. Hollings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beeley, Philip, editor.

Hollings, Christopher, 1982- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--History--17th century.

Mathematics.

Mathematics--History--18th century.

Mathematics--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, this volume aims to exemplify the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Part I Navigation, Seafaring, Warfare

2 `Mecanicall Practises Drawne from the Artes Mathematick': The Mathematical Identity of the Elizabethan Navigator John Davis

3 Navigation Examinations in the Early Modern Period

4 Mathematical Examiners at Trinity House: Teaching and Examining Mathematics for Navigation in London During the Long Eighteenth Century

5 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 Mathematical Men in Humble Life: Philomaths from North-West England as Editors of `Questions for Answer' Journals

7 Collection, Use, Dispersal: The Library of Charles Hutton and the Fate of Georgian Mathematics

8 Mathematics at the Literary and Philosophical Societies

9 The Evolution of Actuarial Science to 1848

Part III Mathematical Practitioners and their Scientific Milieus

10 Assembling the Scribal Self: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli's Circle and Mathematical Practitioners in the Veneto, c.1580-1606

11 Mathematical Businesses: Seventeenth-Century Practitioners and their Academic Friends

12 `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 Climbing the Social Ladder: Johannes Faulhaber's Path from Schoolmaster to Fortification Engineer

14 The Difficult Relation of Surveyors with Algebra: The Hundred Mathematical Questions of Cardinael

15 The Life Mathematick: John and Euclid Speidell, and the Centrality of Instruments in Seventeenth-Century Pedagogy

16 James Thomson Senior and Mathematics at the Belfast Academical Institution, 1814-1832

Bibliography.

Figure Sources and Credits

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 16, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-260949-1

0-19-260948-3

0-19-189629-2

OCLC:

1409616559