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The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England by Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England about?
Professor Taylor's first study of mathematical practitioners is a chronicle of teachers, textbook writers, instrument makers, navigators, land surveyors and map-makers during the period 1485-1714, when English science made its first significant and swift advances. Great or familiar names - Newton, Hariot, Dee, Mercator, Wren, Hooke, Tompion - occur, but the story as a whole is concerned with the more humble but no less devoted men whose work created the climate in which advances were possible.
Who reads The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor
- Publisher
- Published by the syndics of the Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1967
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521072946
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Stem