Book ID: CBB000047653

On the shoulders of merchants: Exchange and the mathematical conception of nature in early modern Europe (1994)

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Hadden, Richard W. (Author)


State University of New York Press


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: xviii + 191 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Freudenthal, G. (1995) Review of "On the shoulders of merchants: Exchange and the mathematical conception of nature in early modern Europe". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 642-43). unapi

Review Cuomo, S. (1995) Review of "On the shoulders of merchants: Exchange and the mathematical conception of nature in early modern Europe". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 463-64). unapi

Review Lowry, S.T. (1995) Review of "On the shoulders of merchants: Exchange and the mathematical conception of nature in early modern Europe". History of Political Economy (pp. 787-90). unapi

Review Swetz, F. (1995) Review of "On the shoulders of merchants: Exchange and the mathematical conception of nature in early modern Europe". Historia Mathematica (pp. 446-48). unapi

Review Porter, T.M. (1996) Review of "On the shoulders of merchants: Exchange and the mathematical conception of nature in early modern Europe". Journal of Economic History (pp. 930-31). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bastiano da Pisa
Bennett, J. A.
Bennett, Jim
Bottazzini, Umberto
Ceccarelli, Giovanni
Dahan Dalmedico, Amy
Journals
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Accounting, Business and Financial History
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
British Journal for the History of Science
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Estudis: Revista de Historia Moderna
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Boydell Press
IPSOA
Palgrave Macmillan
Science Museum Library
Università degli Studi di Siena
Concepts
Mercantile mathematics; industrial mathematics
Mathematics
Primary literature (historical sources)
Geometry
Probability and statistics
Science and economics
People
Pacioli, Luca
Bastiano da Pisa, detto Il Bevilacqua
Cortés, Jerónimo
Cotrugli, Benedetto
Descartes, René
Faulhaber, Johann
Time Periods
17th century
Renaissance
Medieval
15th century
16th century
20th century
Places
British Isles
Europe
France
Spain
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