History of universities. Volume XXXVIII/1, The crisis of the traditional structure of knowledge teaching and learning exact sciences, 1600-1800 / guest editors, Davide Crippa and Marco Sgarbi.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Crippa, Davide, 1976- editor.

Sgarbi, Marco, 1982- editor.

Conference Name:

Crisis of the Traditional Structure of Knowledge: Teaching and Learning Mathematical Sciences in the Eighteenth Century (Conference) (2023 : Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy), associated with work.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--History--18th century.

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges--History--18th century.

Universities and colleges.

Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe--History--18th century.

Science.

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe--History--18th century.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Crisis of the traditional structure of knowledge teaching and learning exact sciences, 1600-1800

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This text contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

Contents:

Cover

History of Universities, VOLUME XXXVIII/1

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

The Projector as Liminal and Ambiguous Figure: The Case of Gottfried Leibniz

A TOUCHE-À-TOUT ASSESSING SCHEMES

JOHANN DANIEL CRAFFT AND THE AFFAIR OF THE PHOSPHORUS

LEIBNIZ'S OWN PROJECTS AND SPECIALNESS: LEIBNIZ IN HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH DUKEJOHANN FRIEDRICH (1676-9)

SECRECY AND CONTROL

Infinitesimal Analysis for Beginners in early Eighteenth-century France: The Caseof Oratorian Books

INTRODUCTION

I. PRACTISING AND TEACHING MATHEMATICS: THE ACTIVITIES OF THE 'MALEBRANCHIST GROUP'

1. From the Academie to Colleges

2. Aiming for the 'Natural Order'

I I. THE ANALYSE DEMONTRÉE, A FIRST-GENERATION TEXTBOOK ON MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS

1. Reyneau, A Very Experienced Teacher

2. A New Calculus, Naturalized

I I I. SCHOLARS AND BEGINNERS

1. Different Names for the Same Audience?

2. Developing A New Audience

CONCLUSION

Francesco Bianchini: A Promising Novel Source on the Global Scope of Science Teaching in Early Modern Rome

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THE STATE OF SCIENCE TEACHING IN ITALY THROUGHOUT THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

3. THE NATIONALISTIC TURN IN EUROPE AGAINST THE GLOBAL SCOPE OF THE JESUITS' ACTIVITIES

4. FRANCESCO BIANCHINI AND HIS KEY ROLEAS A PRIMARY SOURCE

5. BIANCHINI'S CATALOGUE OF COLLEGES

6. CONCLUSION

Revisiting Vallisneri: Science in the Classroom in the Early EighteenthCentury

Teaching and Learning Mathematics inEighteenth-CenturyPadua: The Caseof Giovanni Poleni (1687-1761)

THE PLACE OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PADUA AND BEYOND

THE PUBLIC TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS AT THE TIME OF POLENI

POLENI'S COURSES FROM 1722-23 AND 1732-33

POLENI'S LECTURE ON EUCLID I , 29

CONCLUSIONS

Physica at the University of Leiden, 1675-c.1721.

PHYSICA AND THE CARTESIANISM DISPUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN

DE VOLDER'S 'CARTESIAN EXPERIMENTALISM 'AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE THEATRUM PHYSICUM

WOLFERD SENGUERD'S ANGLOPHILIA

HERMAN BOERHAAVE'S CALL FOR A 'MATHEMATICORUM VIAM' AND THE INTRODUCTION OF ISAAC NEWTON'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN

WILLEM J. 'S GRAVESANDE AND PHYSICA AS A PROPER SCIENTIA

FAZIT

'Dynamische Mathematik' at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: On Friedrich Fröbel's Paper Practices

1. FRÖBEL ON CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND MATHEMATICS

2. FRÖBEL TAKING NOTES

2.1 On Paper Practices and Note-Taking

2.2 Fröbel's Notes on Mathematics

(I) Schmid's Book

(II) Fröbel's Lecture Notes

2.3 What is 'Dynamische Mathematik'?

3. CONCLUSION: ON FRÖBEL'S NOTES AND MATHEMATICS' 'BACK' AND 'FRONT'

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Notes:

Some chapters based on conference proceedings.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 22, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-897241-5

0-19-897239-3

OCLC:

1541774919