Underground mathematics : craft culture and knowledge production in early modern Europe
History of the development of practical mathematics in early modern Europe through the practice of mining.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2022
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| Schlagworte: | Mine shafts Mine surveying Engineering mathematics Geometry Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | History of the development of practical mathematics in early modern Europe through the practice of mining. Introduction -- Underground Mathematics -- Numeracy, Trust, and the Circulation of Knowledge -- Tools of Visualization and Control -- A Sinuous Path -- 1 Of Scholars and Miners -- Mining and Geometry in the Middle Ages -- Georgius Agricola and the Humanist Tradition in the Ore Mountains -- The Scope of Geometry in the De re metallica -- Similar Pictures of Similar Triangles -- Geometria Theoretica, Practica, and Subterranea -- Courtly Instruments and Scholarly Methods -- 2 A Mathematical Culture: The Art of Setting Limits -- Geometry and the Rules of Law -- Claiming a Concession -- The Ubiquity of Measurements -- The Birth of a Profession -- 'A Trustworthy Geometer on the Mountain of Our Lord' -- Obeying the Laws of God and Geometry -- 3 The Mines and the Court -- The Rise of Mining Cities -- An Elector's Geometry of Power -- Engineering the Mining States -- Charting Kingdoms -- Courtly Instruments in a Practical Context -- Diverging Paths -- 4 Writing It Down: Innovation, Secrecy, and Print -- An Elusive Tradition -- Actions, Words, and Numbers -- Learning the Geometria subterranea -- Manuscripts, Secrecy, and Knowledge Circulation -- How to Print a Vade Mecum? -- Authority, Authorship, and Practices -- 5 'So Fair a Subterraneous City': Mapping the Underground -- The Mine as Subterranean City -- 'For No One Can See through Stone…' -- The Freiberga subterranea -- A Technical and Political Work -- Maps and Books as Reform Tools -- Administrating Data -- 6 How to Teach It? Finding the Right Direction -- The Mining Universitas and Its Limits -- Lost in Transition: Johann Andreas Scheidhauer -- Mathematics at the Mining Academy -- The Challenges of Teaching Higher Mathematics -- The Engineers and the Professor. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (306 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781009267250 1009267256 9781009267304 1009267302 |