Cormack, Lesley B.
Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
1. Introduction: Practical Mathematics, Practical Mathematicians, and the Case for Transforming the Study of Nature
Lesley B. Cormack
Part I. Framing the Argument: Theories of Connection
2. Handwork and Brainwork: Beyond the Zilsel Thesis
Lesley B. Cormack
3. Consuming and Appropriating Practical Mathematics and the Mixed Mathematical Fields, or Being “Influenced” by Them: The Case of the Young Descartes
John A. Schuster
Part II. What Did Practical Mathematics Look Like?
4. Mathematics for Sale: Mathematical Practitioners, Instrument Makers, and Communities of Scholars in Sixteenth-Century London
Lesley B. Cormack
5. Technologies of Pow(d)er: Military Mathematical Practitioners’ Strategies and Self-Presentation
Steven A. Walton
6. Machines as Mathematical Instruments
Alex G. Keller
Part III. What Was the Relationship Between Practical Mathematics and Natural Philosophy?
7. The Making of Practical Optics: Mathematical Practitioners’ Appropriation of Optical Knowledge Between Theory and Practice
Sven Dupré
8. Hero of Alexandria and Renaissance Mechanics
W. R. Laird
9. Duytsche Mathematique and the Building of a New Society: Pursuits of Mathematics in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
Nyckelord: History, History of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, History of Mathematical Sciences, History of Early Modern Europe
- Utgivare
- Cormack, Lesley B.
- Schuster, John A.
- Walton, Steven A.
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2017
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Serie
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
- Sidantal
- 12 sidor
- Kategori
- Historia
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319494302
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-3-319-49429-6