Article ID: CBB000081221

The rhetoric of utility: Avoiding occult associations for mathematics through profitability and pleasure (1999)

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Description On the role of rhetoric in the attempt by English practitioners of practical mathematics to persuade Renaissance intellectuals that this mathematics was “anything more than what amounted to a bag of tricks.”


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Authors & Contributors
Salavert i Fabiani, Vicent Lluís
Van Egmond, Warren
Barrow-Green, June
Bennett, J. A.
Franci, Raffaella
Goldthwaite, Richard A.
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
British Journal for the History of Science
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Estudis: Revista de Historia Moderna
Journal of European Economic History
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
Indiana University
Albrizzi
Boydell Press
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, Scottish Committee on Acounting History
IPSOA
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Concepts
Mercantile mathematics; industrial mathematics
Mathematics
Prizes; awards
Primary literature (historical sources)
Science and economics
Science education and teaching
People
Pacioli, Luca
Cortés, Jerónimo
Gori, Dionigi
La Roche, Étienne de
Moore, Jonas
Smith, Robert
Time Periods
Renaissance
17th century
15th century
14th century
16th century
Places
British Isles
Italy
France
Spain
Institutions
Cambridge University
International Biological Program
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