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Author Burdick, Bruce Stanley

Title Mathematical works printed in the Americas, 1554-1700 / Bruce Stanley Burdick
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 373 pages) : illustrations
Series Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics
Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics.
Contents pt. 1. Mathematical Works, Excluding Almanacs -- pt. 2. Almanacs, Ephemerides, and Lunarios -- App. A. A Guide to Astrological Symbols -- App. B. Seventeenth-Century Comet Books Printed in the New World -- App. C. Some Comments on the Place of Logic in Mathematics
Summary "This magisterial annotated bibliography of the earliest mathematical works to be printed in the New World challenges long-held assumptions about the earliest examples of American mathematical endeavor. Bruce Stanley Burdick brings together mathematical writings from Mexico, Lima, and the English colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York. The book provides important information such as author, printer, place of publication, and location of original copies of each of the works discussed." "Burdick's exhaustive research has unearthed numerous examples of books not previously cataloged as mathematical. While it was thought that no mathematical writings in English were printed in the Americas before 1703, Burdick gives scholars one of their first chances to discover Jacob Taylor's 1697 Tenebrae, a treatise on solving triangles and other figures using basic trigonometry. He also goes beyond the English language to discuss works in Spanish and Latin, such as Alonso de la Vera Cruz's 1554 logic text, the Recognitio Summularum; a book on astrology by Enrico Martinez; books on the nature of comets by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora and Eusebio Francisco Kino; and a 1676 almanac by Feliciana Ruiz, the first woman to produce a mathematical work in the Americas." "Those fascinated by mathematics, its history, and its culture will note with interest that many of these works, including all of the earliest ones, are from Mexico, not from what is now the United States. As such, the book will challenge us to rethink the history of mathematics on the American continents."--Jacket
Analysis "Multi-User"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-344) and indexes
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Subject Mathematics -- America -- Early works to 1800 -- Bibliography
Mathematical literature -- America -- Early works to 1800 -- Bibliography
Ethnomathematics -- America -- Early works to 1800 -- Bibliography
Ethnomathematics
Mathematical literature
Mathematics
Literatur
Buchdruck
Mathematik
Mathematics -- America -- Early works to 1800 -- Bibliography.
Mathematical literature -- America -- Early works to 1800 -- Bibliography.
Ethnomathematics -- America -- Early works to 1800 -- Bibliography.
SUBJECT America -- Imprints -- Early works to 1800 -- Bibliography
Subject America
Amerika
America -- Imprints -- Early works to 1800 -- Bibliography.
Genre/Form bibliographies.
Bibliographies
Bibliographies.
Bibliographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008024009
ISBN 9781421402055
142140205X