{"product_id":"9783031115370","title":"SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eCorry, Leo\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Its focus is on Book II of the \u003ci\u003eElements\u003c\/i\u003e and the ways in which algebraic symbolism and methods, especially as recently introduced by François Viète and his followers, took center stage as mediators between the two realms, and thus offered new avenues to work out that relationship in idiosyncratic ways not found in earlier editions of the Euclidean text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\nTexts examined include Robert \u003ci\u003eRecorde's Pathway to Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (1551), Henry Billingsley’s first English translation of the \u003ci\u003eElements\u003c\/i\u003e (1570), \u003ci\u003eClavis Mathematicae\u003c\/i\u003e by William Oughtred and \u003ci\u003eArtis Analyticae Praxis\u003c\/i\u003e by Thomas Harriot (both published in 1631), Isaac Barrow’s versions of the \u003ci\u003eElements\u003c\/i\u003e (1660), and John Wallis \u003ci\u003eTreatise of Algebra\u003c\/i\u003e (1685), and the English translations of Claude Dechales’ French Euclidean \u003ci\u003eElements\u003c\/i\u003e (1685). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a completely new perspective of the topic and analyzes mostly unexplored material. It will be of interest to historians of mathematics, mathematicians with an interest in history and historians of renaissance science in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2022-09-13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031115370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-11538-7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 74\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45383296483468,"sku":"9783031115370","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031115370.jpg?v=1775828467","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031115370","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}