Making Mathematical Culture : University and Print in the Circle of Lefevre d'Etaples

by Richard J. Oosterhoff

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Oxford-Warburg Studies

ISBN-10 0198823525

ISBN-13 9780198823520

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 14th, 2018

Print length 292 Pages

Weight 622 grams

Dimensions 16.50 x 24.00 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 History of mathematics

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Making Mathematical Culture analyses the rise of the printed book and how it contributed to the growing profile of mathematics in Europe. Using student manuscripts and annotated books, this volume offers a new account of how printing shaped one of the fastest-growing institutions of the early modern period, the university.

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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