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000806878 24500 $$aMathematical practitioners and the transformation of natural knowledge in early modern Europe /$$cLesley B. Cormack, Steven A. Walton, John A. Schuster, editors.
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000806878 4901_ $$aStudies in history and philosophy of science ;$$vvolume 45
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000806878 5050_ $$aAbout the Editors and Authors; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Practical Mathematics, Practical Mathematicians, and the Case for Transforming the Studyof Nature; 1.1 E.G.R. Taylor and Mathematical Practitioners; 1.2 Taylor's Category Continues; 1.3 Framing the Argument; 1.4 Structure of the Volume; 1.5 Conclusion; Part I Framing the Argument: Theories of Connection; 2 Handwork and Brainwork: Beyond the Zilsel Thesis; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Handwork and Brainwork; 2.3 Hessen and Zilsel; 2.4 Utility and Ben-David's Scientistic Society.
000806878 5058_ $$a2.5 The `Scientific Revolution' and Mathematical Practitioners2.6 The Case of English Geography; 2.7 Conclusion; 3 Consuming and Appropriating Practical Mathematics and the Mixed Mathematical Fields, or Being "Influenced" by Them: The Case of the Young Descartes; 3.1 Externalist Narrative, the New Historians of Practical Mathematics and the Category of Natural Philosophy; 3.1.1 Too Many Targets, Too Many Sources, Too Many Modes of Causation; 3.1.2 Natural Philosophizing as Culture and Process; 3.1.3 Practical Mathematics Was Also a Tradition in Process.
000806878 5058_ $$a3.2 Rectifying the Terrain of Externalist Explanation3.2.1 What Was Cartesian `Dynamics', the Causal Register of His Natural Philosophy?; 3.3 Case Study 1: 1619-From Hydrostatics to Dynamics: From Mixed Mathematics to Corpuscular Mechanism; 3.4 Case Study 2: 1627-The Laws of Light and the Laws of Nature; 3.5 Case Study 3: Sorting Out the `Causal Mode' of Sixteenth-Century Mechanics; 3.6 Case Study 4: Hobnobbing with Practitioners and Machines; 3.7 Conclusion: Opportunities and Pitfalls; Part II What Did Practical Mathematics Look Like?
000806878 5058_ $$a4 Mathematics for Sale: Mathematical Practitioners, Instrument Makers, and Communities of Scholars in Sixteenth-Century London4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Mathematical Lectures; 4.3 Thomas Hood as the First London Mathematical Lecturer; 4.4 Gresham College; 4.5 Proposed Lecture in Navigation; 4.6 Instrument Makers; 4.7 Practical Mathematics and Its Audience; 4.8 Molyneux's Shop; 4.9 Conclusion; 5 Technologies of Pow(d)er: Military Mathematical Practitioners' Strategies and Self-Presentation; 5.1 Military Mathematical Practitioners in Later Sixteenth-Century England.
000806878 5058_ $$a5.2 Military Mathematical Practice5.2.1 Fortifying; 5.2.2 Gunning; 5.3 Conclusion:The Rise of the Military Mathematical Practitioner; 6 Machines as Mathematical Instruments; Part III What Was the Relationship Between Practical Mathematics and Natural Philosophy?; 7 The Making of Practical Optics: Mathematical Practitioners' Appropriation of Optical Knowledge Between Theory and Practice; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Shared Optical Knowledge; 7.3 William Bourne versus Ettore Ausonio: Theory and Practice; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Hero of Alexandria and Renaissance Mechanics; 8.1 The Medieval Hero.
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000806878 520__ $$aThis book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking). These are not in opposition, however. Theory and practice are end points on a continuum, with some participants interested only in the practical, others only in the theoretical, and most in the murky intellectual and material world in between. It is this borderland where influence, appropriation, and collaboration have the potential to lead to new methods, new subjects of enquiry, and new social structures of natural philosophy and science. The case for connection between theory and practice can be most persuasively drawn in the area of mathematics, which is the focus of this book. Practical mathematics was a growing field in early modern Europe and these essays are organised into three parts which contribute to the debate about the role of mathematical practice in the Scientific Revolution. First, they demonstrate the variability of the identity of practical mathematicians, and of the practices involved in their activities in early modern Europe. Second, readers are invited to consider what practical mathematics looked like and that although practical mathematical knowledge was transmitted and circulated in a wide variety of ways, participants were able to recognize them all as practical mathematics. Third, the authors show how differences and nuances in practical mathematics typically depended on the different contexts in which it was practiced: social, cultural, political, and economic particularities matter. Historians of science, especially those interested in the Scientific Revolution period and the history of mathematics will find this book and its ground-breaking approach of particular interest.
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