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Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples de Richard J. Oosterhoff

Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples: Oxford-Warburg Studies

Autor Richard J. Oosterhoff
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 aug 2018
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198823520
ISBN-10: 0198823525
Pagini: 292
Ilustrații: 34 black and white figures/illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 238 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford-Warburg Studies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

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.
Oosterhoff has given us an exciting, creative, and well-documented work. It considerably advances our understanding of the cognitive history of the book and of the central role of mathematics in the early modern university, and it should become a mainstay of examination lists and bibliographies.

Notă biografică

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.