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Author Oosterhoff, Richard J., author.

Title Making mathematical culture : university and print in the circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples / Richard J. Oosterhoff.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford-Warburg studies
Oxford-Warburg studies.
Contents Cover; Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Conventions and Abbreviations; CONVENTIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1: Introduction; MATHEMATICAL CULTURE; LEFÈVRE AND FRIENDS; MAKING IN UNIVERSITIES AND PRINT SHOPS; OVERVIEW; 2: A Mathematical Turn; MATHEMATICS AT PARIS; THE COURT AND ITALY; NORTHERN CONVERSIONS; UNIVERSITY IDEALS; 3: Copia in the Classroom; UNIVERSITY; COPIA IN PRACTICE; EXERCITATIONES INGENII; MARGINS AND ENDPAPERS; ANALOGY AS ARS ARTIUM; 4: Inventing the Printed Textbook
COLLECTIVE AUTHORSHIPGENRE AS METHOD; PRINT AND METHOD; 5: The Senses of Mixed Mathematics; THE MIND'S EYE AND THE SENSES; COSMOGRAPHY; MUSIC; A READER; 6: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; FRIENDSHIP AND PHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS; PRINCIPLES; A MATHEMATICS OF MAKING; 7: Epilogue; THE LEARNED LEGACY; THE UTILITY OF MATHEMATICAL CULTURE; APPENDIX: Handlist of Books Annotated by Beatus Rhenanus, 1502-7; Bibliography; MANUSCRIPTS; PRIMARY LITERATURE; MODERN LITERATURE; Index
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques, -1536.
Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques, -1536.
Mathematics -- History.
Mathematics.
History.
Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
Intellectual life.
France -- Paris.
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version : 9780198823520
ISBN 9780192556554 (electronic book)
019255655X (electronic book)
9780191862151
0191862150
9780198823520
0198823525