Making Mathematical Culture
University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples
(Sprache: Englisch)
Making Mathematical Culture analyses the rise of the printed book and how it contributed to the growing profile of mathematics in Europe. Using student manuscripts and annotated books, this volume offers a new account of how printing shaped one of the...
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Making Mathematical Culture analyses the rise of the printed book and how it contributed to the growing profile of mathematics in Europe. Using student manuscripts and annotated books, this volume offers a new account of how printing shaped one of the fastest-growing institutions of the early modern period, the university.
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In 1503, for the first time, a student in Paris was able to spend his entire university career studying only the printed textbooks of his teacher, thanks to the works of the humanist and university reformer Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (c. 1455-1536). As printed books became central to the intellectual habits of following generations, Lefèvre turned especially to mathematics as a way to renovate the medieval university.Making Mathematical Culture argues this was a pivatol moment in the cultural history of Europe and explores how the rise of the printed book contributed to the growing profile of mathematics in the region. Using student manuscripts and annotated books, Making Mathematical Culture offers a new account of printed textbooks, as jointly made by masters and students, and how such collaborative practices informed approaches to mathematics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Making Mathematical Culture “
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- 1: Introduction
- 2: A Mathematical Turn
- 3: Copia in the Classroom
- 4: Inventing the Printed Textbook
- 5: The Senses of Mixed Mathematics
- 6: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
- 7: Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Richard Oosterhoff
Richard Oosterhoff is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow at CRASSH where he is researching a monograph on the 'untutored mind' in Early Modern Europe. Richard completed his PhD in 2013 at the University of Notre Dame, and has since worked on the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe in the areas of science, the book, and religion. His articles have appeared in the Journal for the History of Ideas, Intellectual History Review, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and History of Universities.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Richard Oosterhoff
- 2018, 292 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198823525
- ISBN-13: 9780198823520
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Oosterhoff's book is a first-rate scholarly work. Through his sharp and intelligent scrutiny of the dense (and prolific) printed Latin oeuvres generated by Lefèvre and other members of the Fabrist circle, the author reveals a fascinating and transformative late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century pedagogical era in which mathematics was not only considered for its practical purposes but also contemplated for "regulating the soul as it realizes its larger goals of knowledge" (49). This book is certainly as important to Renaissance Paris as Andrew Warwick's Masters of Theory (2003) is to Victorian Cambridge. I highly recommend the book to early modern intellectual scholars who desire a broader understanding of French humanism and to historians of science seeking earlier origins of the mathematical way in natural philosophy. Jean-François Gauvin, Université Laval, Renaissance Quarterly
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