Defending Hypatia Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of
Why should mathematics, the purest of sciences, have a history? Medieval mathematicians took little interest in the history of their discipline. Yet in the Renaissance the history of mathematics flourished. This book explores how Renaissance scholars reco
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Robert Goulding
Defending Hypatia Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History
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DEFENDING HYPATIA
Archimedes NEW STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 25
EDITOR Jed Z. Buchwald, Dreyfuss Professor of History, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Jeremy Gray, The Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open University, Buckinghamshire, UK. Sharon Kingsland, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
ADVISORY BOARD Henk Bos, University of Utrecht Mordechai Feingold, California Institute of Technology Allan D. Franklin, University of Colorado at Boulder Kostas Gavroglu, National Technical University of Athens Anthony Grafton, Princeton University Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Leibniz Universität Hannover Trevor Levere, University of Toronto Jesper Lützen, Copenhagen University William Newman, Indian University, Bloomington Lawrence Principe, The Johns Hopkins University Jürgen Renn, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Alex Roland, Duke University Alan Shapiro, University of Minnesota Nancy Siraisi, Hunter College of the City University of New York Michael R. Dietrich, Dartmouth College Michel Morange, IHPST, Paris Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Noel Swerdlow, University of Chicago Archimedes has three fundamental goals; to further the integration of the histories of science and technology with one another: to investigate the technical, social and practical histories of specific developments in science and technology; and finally, where possible and desirable, to bring the histories of science and technology into closer contact with the philosophy of science. To these ends, each volume will have its own theme and title and will be planned by one or more members of the Advisory Board in consultation with the editor. Although the volumes have specific themes, the series itself will not be limited to one or even to a few particular areas. Its subjects include any of the sciences, ranging from biology through physics, all aspects of technology, broadly construed, as well as historically-engaged philosophy of science or technology. Taken as a whole, Archimedes will be of interest to historians, philosophers, and scientists, as well as to those in business and industry who seek to understand how science and industry have come to be so strongly linked. For other titles published in this series, go to www.springer.com/series/5644
Robert Goulding
Defending Hypatia Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History
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Prof. Robert Goulding University of Notre Dame Program of Liberal Studies 313 Decio Faculty Hall Notre Dame IN 46556 USA [email protected]
ISSN 1385-0180 ISBN 978-90-481-3541-7 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3542-4 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3542-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009941801 © Springer Science+Business Media, B.V. 2010 No part o
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