Encounters with Euclid: how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world

In this lively and informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid's text journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a work of phil...

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1. Verfasser: Wardhaugh, Benjamin 1979- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:In this lively and informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid's text journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a work of philosophy, while others viewed it as a practical guide to life. He examines the many different contexts in which Euclid's book and his geometry were put to use, from the Neoplatonic school at Athens and the artisans' studios of medieval Baghdad to the Jesuit mission in China and the workshops of Restoration London. Wardhaugh shows how the Elements inspired ideas in theology, art, and music, and how the book has acquired new relevance to the strange geometries of dark matter and curved space
Beschreibung:"Originally published in the English language in 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. under the title The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements"--Title page verso
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ISBN:9780691211695

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