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Mathematiques Et Theorie Du Mouvement Xive Xvie Siecles
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Book Synopsis Mathématiques et théorie du mouvement XIVe-XVIe siècles by : Joël Biard
Download or read book Mathématiques et théorie du mouvement XIVe-XVIe siècles written by Joël Biard and published by Presses Univ. Septentrion. This book was released on 2008-02-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Au sommaire notamment : L'enseignement supérieur indigène en Amérique latine (S. Didou Aupetit) ; Différence culturelle, interculturalité et enseignement supérieur en Amérique latine, profil et contribution de certaines universités indigènes de la région andine (D. Mato) ; Sociologie de l'éducation et éducation prioritaire : quelle influence? (M. Kherroubi). [Memento].
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics by : Eleanor Robson
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics written by Eleanor Robson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how. A broader understanding of mathematical practitioners naturally leads to a new appreciation of what counts as a historical source. Material and oral evidence is drawn upon as well as an unusual array of textual sources. Further, the ways in which people have chosen to express themselves are as historically meaningful as the contents of the mathematics they have produced. Mathematics is not a fixed and unchanging entity. New questions, contexts, and applications all influence what counts as productive ways of thinking. Because the history of mathematics should interact constructively with other ways of studying the past, the contributors to this book come from a diverse range of intellectual backgrounds in anthropology, archaeology, art history, philosophy, and literature, as well as history of mathematics more traditionally understood. The thirty-six self-contained, multifaceted chapters, each written by a specialist, are arranged under three main headings: 'Geographies and Cultures', 'Peoples and Practices', and 'Interactions and Interpretations'. Together they deal with the mathematics of 5000 years, but without privileging the past three centuries, and an impressive range of periods and places with many points of cross-reference between chapters. The key mathematical cultures of North America, Europe, the Middle East, India, and China are all represented here as well as areas which are not often treated in mainstream history of mathematics, such as Russia, the Balkans, Vietnam, and South America. A vital reference for graduates and researchers in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians.
Book Synopsis La mesure de l’être by : Sylvain Roudaut
Download or read book La mesure de l’être written by Sylvain Roudaut and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to analyze the problem of the intensity of forms in the late Middle Ages and to show how this debate eventually gave rise to a new metaphysical project in the 14th century: the project of quantifying the different types of perfections existing in the universe – that is the project of “measuring being”. Cet ouvrage se propose d’analyser l’histoire du débat relatif à l’intensité des formes au Moyen Âge, et de retracer la manière dont il conduisit au XIVe siècle à l’émergence d’un projet métaphysique nouveau : celui de quantifier les perfections contenues dans l’univers et, ainsi, de “mesurer l’être”.
Book Synopsis A History of Balance, 1250-1375 by : Joel Kaye
Download or read book A History of Balance, 1250-1375 written by Joel Kaye and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a groundbreaking history of balance, exploring how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period.
Book Synopsis Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe by : Matteo Valleriani
Download or read book Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe written by Matteo Valleriani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique standpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered this text from manuscript to print culture, and in doing so transformed it into an established platform of scientific learning. The corpus, constituted of 359 different editions featuring Sacrobosco’s treatise on cosmology and astronomy printed between 1472 and 1650, represents the scientific European shared knowledge concerned with the cosmological worldview of the early modern period until far after the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. The contributions to this volume show how the academic book trade influenced the process of homogenization of scientific knowledge. They also describe the material infrastructure through which such knowledge was disseminated, and thus define the premises for the foundation of modern scientific communities.
Book Synopsis Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century by :
Download or read book Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century addresses a moment in the history of ethics, when discoveries in natural philosophy blurred the boundary between the possible and the impossible, and made the impossible a preferred territory in discussions on practical reason. The volume studies the onset and expansion of a new movement in constructing ethics, as the methods, arguments, and cases adopted from logic and natural philosophy came to be extensively applied at Oxford and swiftly disseminated among other Oxonians eventually making their way outside Oxford. It shows how the Oxford Calculators triggered a unique and durable transformation in ethics. Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Valeria Buffon, Michael W. Dunne, Marek Gensler, Simon Kemp, Edit A. Lukács, Monika Michałowska, and Andrea Nannini.
Book Synopsis Thomas Harriot and His World by : Robert Fox
Download or read book Thomas Harriot and His World written by Robert Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of papers on Thomas Harriot edited by Professor Robert Fox is based on the annual Harriot lectures delivered at Oriel College, Oxford between 2000 and 2009. It complements the previous volume, published as Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science in 2000. The focus in several of the papers is on Harriot's outstanding achievements as a mathematician; others consider why he has never received the recognition accorded to his great contemporary, Galileo; others again examine his association with his entrepreneurial patron Walter Ralegh and his contributions to the intensely practical world of exploration and seamanship, as exemplified in his voyage to the coast of present-day North Carolina in 1585. The volume adds significantly to our understanding of a true Renaissance man who wrote accomplished Latin, earned the respect of Europe's leading mathematicians and astronomers, and moved easily in circles close to the English court and whose 'Brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia' (1588) was the first detailed description of America to be published in the English language.
Download or read book Quantifying Aristotle written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an entirely new perspective on the alleged incompatibility between Aristotelian philosophy and the mathematical methods and principles that form the basis of modern science. It surveys the tradition of the Oxford Calculators from its beginnings in the fourteenth century until Leibniz and the philosophy of the seventeenth century and explores how their various techniques of quantification expanded the conceptual and methodological limits of Aristotelianism.
Book Synopsis Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum by : Monika Michałowska
Download or read book Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum written by Monika Michałowska and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics produced in the Middle Ages, that of Richard Kilvington is one of the most thought-provoking. Kilvington adopts a unique perspective of argumentation in which he applies concepts and terminology from the fields of logic and physics to ethical dilemmas. This unprecedented approach allows him to formulate original solutions to various ethical problems. He concentrates on the will, moral weakness, the relationship between the will and prudence, the change of virtues and vices, and the nature of ethical objects. The presented commentary is a valuable record of the philosophical debates at Oxford in the 14th century.
Book Synopsis The English Galileo by : Matthias Schemmel
Download or read book The English Galileo written by Matthias Schemmel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Galileo—the title of this book draws on the extraordinary prominence of Galileo Galilei in the historiography of the early modern Scienti?c Revolution. At the same time it questions the uniqueness of Galileo (not as a person, of course, but as an early modern phenomenon) by proclaiming another ?gure of his kind: Thomas H- riot. But putting Harriot on a pedestal next to Galileo is not a concern of this book, which is rather motivated by questions of the following kind: How did modern s- ence come about? What were the processes of knowledge and concept transformation that led from premodern to modern science, and, more speci?cally, from preclassical to classical mechanics? Which aspects of these developments rely on the peculiarities of particular historical actors and what aspects re?ect more general characteristics of the knowledge system at the time and its potentials for development? To answer such questions it is obviously necessary to complement the existing studies on Galileo’s science with studies on the work of his lesser-known contemporaries; and it is imp- tant that these studies are carried out in similar detail to make the different prota- nists’ work comparable. Without such comparison—this is the basic assumption of this book—our understanding of the shared knowledge of early modern thinking and the processes of knowledge transformation from which modern science emerged will remain incomplete and biased.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy by : Henrik Lagerlund
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy written by Henrik Lagerlund and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first reference ever devoted to medieval philosophy. It covers all areas of the field from 500-1500 including philosophers, philosophies, key terms and concepts. It also provides analyses of particular theories plus cultural and social contexts.
Book Synopsis Motion and Genetic Definitions in the Sixteenth-Century Euclidean Tradition by : Angela Axworthy
Download or read book Motion and Genetic Definitions in the Sixteenth-Century Euclidean Tradition written by Angela Axworthy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant number of works have set forth, over the past decades, the emphasis laid by seventeenth-century mathematicians and philosophers on motion and kinematic notions in geometry. These works demonstrated the crucial role attributed in this context to genetic definitions, which state the mode of generation of geometrical objects instead of their essential properties. While the growing importance of genetic definitions in sixteenth-century commentaries on Euclid’s Elements has been underlined, the place, uses and status of motion in this geometrical tradition has however never been thoroughly and comprehensively studied. This book therefore undertakes to fill a gap in the history of early modern geometry and philosophy of mathematics by investigating the different treatments of motion and genetic definitions by seven major sixteenth-century commentators on Euclid’s Elements, from Oronce Fine (1494–1555) to Christoph Clavius (1538–1612), including Jacques Peletier (1517–1582), John Dee (1527–1608/1609) and Henry Billingsley (d. 1606), among others. By investigating the ontological and epistemological conceptions underlying the introduction and uses of kinematic notions in their interpretation of Euclidean geometry, this study displays the richness of the conceptual framework, philosophical and mathematical, inherent to the sixteenth-century Euclidean tradition and shows how it contributed to a more generalised acceptance and promotion of kinematic approaches to geometry in the early modern period.
Book Synopsis Islamic Medical and Scientific Tradition by : Peter E. Pormann
Download or read book Islamic Medical and Scientific Tradition written by Peter E. Pormann and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of articles that illustrate the intellectual curiosity and theoretical vigour with which Arabs and non-Arabs living in the medieval Muslim world pursued scientific endeavours. The focus is firmly on articles published during the last 20 years, during which the discipline has enjoyed a new bloom.
Book Synopsis The English Galileo: Interpretation by : Matthias Schemmel
Download or read book The English Galileo: Interpretation written by Matthias Schemmel and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science by :
Download or read book Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Les nouvelles théories des rapports mathématiques du XIVe au XVIe siècle by : Sabine Rommevaux
Download or read book Les nouvelles théories des rapports mathématiques du XIVe au XVIe siècle written by Sabine Rommevaux and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Entre le XIIIe siècle et le XVIe siècle se développent en Europe de nouvelles théories des rapports et des proportions mathématiques, qui, si elles sancrent dans des traditions remontant à Euclide et Nicomaque, les dépassent en proposant de nouveaux objets comme la dénomination des rapports, rationnels ou irrationnels, ou les rapports de rapports. Une place privilégiée est accordée, dans cet ouvrage, au traité Sur les rapports de rapports de Nicole Oresme, qui, dans le prolongement des travaux de Thomas Bradwardine, propose une théorie novatrice, présentant un grand intérêt mathématique. On verra comment cette théorie a été acceptée ou rejetée, en particulier par Blaise de Parme, Alvares Thomas ou Pedro Nuñez. Et on trouve, en annexe à cet ouvrage, la première édition critique traduite et commentée de l'Algorismus proportionum de Nicole Oresme."--Back cover.
Download or read book Catalogue of Scientific Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
