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

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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Beeley, Philip (Editor), Hollings, Christopher, 1982- (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
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