Making Mathematical Culture

University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples

Richard J. Oosterhoff (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-882352-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	08.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Oxford-Warburg Studies
Zusatzinfo	34 black and white figures/illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 238 mm
Gewicht	616 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-19-882352-5 / 0198823525
ISBN-13	978-0-19-882352-0 / 9780198823520
Zustand	Neuware