"Geometry had a mercurial nature in the sixteenth century. Transmitted from antiquity in the form of Euclid's Elements, it was many years before geometry moved from the scholastic sphere and before its language and logic began to be used in an explicitly practical context. In 1570, Henry B...

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1. Verfasser:	Chan, Eleanor (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2022
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge studies in Renaissance and early modern worlds of knowledge
Schlagworte:	Euclides > ca. v3. Jh. > Elementa Mathematik Renaissance Fachsprache Übersetzung Niederlande England Communication in mathematics / History / 17th century Mathematics / Language Geometry / History / 17th century Euclid's Elements Communication in mathematics Geometry 1600-1699 History
Zusammenfassung:	"Geometry had a mercurial nature in the sixteenth century. Transmitted from antiquity in the form of Euclid's Elements, it was many years before geometry moved from the scholastic sphere and before its language and logic began to be used in an explicitly practical context. In 1570, Henry Billingsley translated Euclid's Elements into the English vernacular. In 1604, Jan Pieterszoon Dou followed suit and produced the first translation in the Dutch vernacular. These were both seminal moments in what is now known as the scientific revolution, but they were also part of a broader shift towards the establishment of geometry as a practical and analytical tool. Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance sheds light on the remarkable culture shift that occurred around the turn of the seventeenth century, and on the geometrical imagination which followed. It shows how the visual language of early modern European geometry was constructed by borrowing and quoting from contemporary visual culture. Practical geometry in this period was built out of craft metaphors. The verbal and visual language of this form of mathematics, far from being simply immaterial, is designed to tantalize with material connotations"--
Beschreibung:	xiii, 226 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780367345327 9780367345341