Book ID: CBB000771864

Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (2004)

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Glimp, David (Editor)
Warren, Michelle R. (Editor)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: xxix + 255 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Knobloch, Eberhard (2005) Review of "Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (p. 524). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Liu, Benjamin (2004) Accounting for Generosity: Antón de Montoro's Poetic Invoicing. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 187). unapi

Chapter Ostashevsky, Eugene (2004) Crooked Figures: Zero and Hindu-Arabic Notation in Shakespeare's Henry V. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 205). unapi

Chapter Sokol, Alina (2004) What Does an Escudo Buy? Gold and Money in Francisco de Quevedo's Sonnet “To Gold…”. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 19). unapi

Chapter Mazzio, Carla (2004) The Three Dimensional Self: Geometry, Melancholy, Drama. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 39). unapi

Chapter Shank, J. B. (2004) Fontenelle's Calculus: The Cultural Politics of Mathematics in Louis XIV's France. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 93). unapi

Chapter Reiss, Timothy J. (2004) Calculating Humans: Mathematics, War and the Colonial Calculus. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 137). unapi

Chapter Cahill, Patricia (2004) Killing by Computation: Military Mathematics, the Elizabethan Social Body, and Marlowe's Tamburlaine. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 165). unapi

Chapter Batchelor, Robert (2004) Binary as Transcultural Technology: Leibniz, Mathesis Universalis and the Yijing. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 229). unapi

Chapter Kaye, Joel (2004) Money and Administrative Calculation as Reflected in Scholastic Natural Philosophy. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Johnson, Christopher (2004) Clavius's Number and Its Early Modern Afterlife. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 67). unapi

Chapter Hull, Gordon (2004) Hobbes and the Premodern Geometry of Modern Political Thought. In: Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (p. 115). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Arthur, Richard T. W.
Brioist, Pascal
De Risi, Vincenzo
Ferreirós, José
Frémontier-Murphy, Camille
Gavagna, Veronica
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
Publishers
Birkhäuser
MIT Press
Pennsylvania State University Press
Yale University Press
Edizioni Cadmo
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Applied mathematics
Quantification
Mathematical instruments
Architecture
People
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Euclid
Barrow, Isaac
Clavius, Christopher
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Galilei, Galileo
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Renaissance
19th century
Early modern
Places
Europe
Italy
Great Britain
France
Germany
Mediterranean region
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