Book ID: CBB000075439

Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements: British algebra through the commentaries on Newton's Universal arithmetick (1997)

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Pycior, Helena M. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xi + 328 pp.; notes; index

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Review Scriba, C. J. (1999) Review of "Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements: British algebra through the commentaries on Newton's Universal arithmetick". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 303). unapi

Review Knobloch, E. (1999) Review of "Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements: British algebra through the commentaries on Newton's Universal arithmetick". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (p. 174). unapi

Review Peckhaus, V. (1998) Review of "Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements: British algebra through the commentaries on Newton's Universal arithmetick". Erkenntnis: International Journal of Analytic Philosophy (pp. 415-19). unapi

Review Guicciardini, N. (1999) Review of "Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements: British algebra through the commentaries on Newton's Universal arithmetick". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 183-89). unapi

Review Henry, J. (1999) Review of "Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements: British algebra through the commentaries on Newton's Universal arithmetick". English Historical Review (pp. 450-51). unapi

Review Richards, J.L. (1998) Review of "Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements: British algebra through the commentaries on Newton's Universal arithmetick". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 728-29). unapi

Review Seltman, M. (1998) Review of "Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements: British algebra through the commentaries on Newton's Universal arithmetick". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 438-40). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gascoigne, John
Kaplan, Abram
Westfall, Richard S.
Warntz, William
Stedall, Jacqueline Anne
Petzold, Ulrich
Journals
History of Science
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Rivista di Storia della Scienza
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Publishers
Springer Nature
World Scientific
Humanities Press
Hilger
European Mathematical Society
Columbia University
Concepts
Science
Algebra
Mathematics
Optics
Philology
Historiography
People
Newton, Isaac
Wallis, John
Viète, François de la Bigotière
Raphson, Joseph
Varen, Bernhard
Recorde, Robert
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Places
British Isles
England
Scotland
Netherlands
Italy
France
Institutions
Cambridge University
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