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Counting
Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
Häftad, 2024
214 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NEUMANN PRIZE 2025 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? …
Gunpowder and Geometry
The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Häftad, 2020
129 kr
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August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a five-pound pick by …
Book of Wonders
The Many Lives of Euclid’s Elements
Inbunden, 2020
301 kr
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Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths. …
Encounters with Euclid
How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World
E-bok, 2020
102 kr
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‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In this …
Book of Wonders
How Euclid’s Elements Built the World
Ljudbok, 2020
221 kr
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‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURESEuclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In this …
Gunpowder and Geometry
The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Ljudbok, 2019
227 kr
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August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a five-pound pick by …
Counting
Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
Inbunden, 2024
301 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NEUMANN PRIZE 2025 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? …
Counting
Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
E-bok, 2024
102 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NEUMANN PRIZE 2025 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? …
Counting
Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
Ljudbok, 2024
208 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE NEUMANN PRIZE 2025WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT …
Counting
Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
Häftad, 2025
157 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NEUMANN PRIZE 2025 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? …
Poor Robin's Prophecies
A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain
E-bok, 2012
65 kr
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Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and ''well-willer to the mathematics'', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin''s Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing an …
Poor Robin's Prophecies
A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain
E-bok, 2012
66 kr
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Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and ''well-willer to the mathematics'', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin''s Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing an …
Correspondence of Charles Hutton
Mathematical Networks in Georgian Britain
E-bok, 2017
1558 kr
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This book contains all the letters that are known to survive from the correspondence of Charles Hutton (1737-1823). Hutton was one of the most prominent British mathematicians of his generation; he played roles at the Royal Society, the Royal Military Academy, the Board of Longitude, the …
Correspondence of Charles Hutton
Mathematical Networks in Georgian Britain
E-bok, 2017
1558 kr
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This book contains all the letters that are known to survive from the correspondence of Charles Hutton (1737-1823). Hutton was one of the most prominent British mathematicians of his generation; he played roles at the Royal Society, the Royal Military Academy, the Board of Longitude, the …
The Correspondence of Charles Hutton
Mathematical Networks in Georgian Britain
Inbunden, 2017
2411 kr
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This book contains all the letters that are known to survive from the correspondence of Charles Hutton (1737-1823). Hutton was one of the most prominent British mathematicians of his generation; he played roles at the Royal Society, the Royal Military Academy, the Board of Longitude, the …
Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe
Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books
Av Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
3156 kr
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Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for …
Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe
Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books
Av Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
795 kr
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Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for …
John Wallis: Writings on Music
Av Benjamin Wardhaugh, David Cram
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, …
How to Read Historical Mathematics
Inbunden, 2010
436 kr
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Writings by early mathematicians feature language and notations that are quite different from what we're familiar with today. Sourcebooks on the history of mathematics provide some guidance, but what has been lacking is a guide tailored to the needs of readers approaching these writings for the …
Wealth of Numbers
An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing
Inbunden, 2012
574 kr
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Despite what we may sometimes imagine, popular mathematics writing didn't begin with Martin Gardner. In fact, it has a rich tradition stretching back hundreds of years. This entertaining and enlightening anthology--the first of its kind--gathers nearly one hundred fascinating selections from the …
Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World
Inbunden
521 kr
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John Birchensha: Writings on Music
Av Christopher D.S. Field, Benjamin Wardhaugh
Inbunden, 2010
2586 kr
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John Birchensha (c.1605-?1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he claimed would enable even those without practical …
Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653–1705
Inbunden, 2008
2826 kr
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How, in 1705, was Thomas Salmon, a parson from Bedfordshire, able to persuade the Royal Society that a musical performance could constitute a scientific experiment? Or that the judgement of a musical audience could provide evidence for a mathematically precise theory of musical tuning? This book …
Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music
Volume I: An Essay to the Advancement of Musick and the Ensuing Controversy, 1672-3
Inbunden, 2013
1567 kr
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Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Salmon proposed a radical reform …
Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music
Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706
Inbunden, 2013
2586 kr
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This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent …
John Wallis: Writings on Music
Av Benjamin Wardhaugh, David Cram
Inbunden, 2014
2586 kr
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John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, …
Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe
Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books
Av Benjamin Wardhaugh, Yelda Nasifoglu m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
814 kr
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Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for …
Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe
Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books
Av Benjamin Wardhaugh, Yelda Nasifoglu m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
814 kr
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Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for …
Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music
Volume I: An Essay to the Advancement of Musick and the Ensuing Controversy, 1672-3
Häftad, 2024
667 kr
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Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Salmon proposed a radical reform …
Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music
Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706
Häftad, 2024
667 kr
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This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent …
