Title British versions of Book II of Euclid's Elements geometry, arithmetic, algebra (1550-1750) / Leo Corry

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Description 1 online resource (79 p.) Series SpringerBriefs in history of science and technology SpringerBriefs in history of science and technology. Contents Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Euclidean Background -- 1.1 Book II -- 1.2 The Early Printed Version of the Elements -- 1.3 The Rise of Viète's Symbolic Algebra -- References -- 2 The Main Figures: From Recorde to Wallis and Barrow -- 2.1 Robert Recorde -- 2.2 Billingsley and Rudd -- 2.3 Oughtred and Harriot -- 2.4 Wallis and Barrow -- References -- 3 Some Lesser-Known Figures -- 3.1 Leeke and Serle -- 3.2 Dechales Translated into English -- 3.3 Alingham -- 3.4 Henry Hill -- 3.5 Turn of the Eighteenth Century -- References -- 4 Summary and Concluding Remarks Summary This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Its focus is on Book II of the Elements and the ways in which algebraic symbolism and methods, especially as recently introduced by Francois Viete and his followers, took center stage as mediators between the two realms, and thus offered new avenues to work out that relationship in idiosyncratic ways not found in earlier editions of the Euclidean text. Texts examined include Robert Recorde's Pathway to Knowledge (1551), Henry Billingsleys first English translation of the Elements (1570), Clavis Mathematicae by William Oughtred and Artis Analyticae Praxis by Thomas Harriot (both published in 1631), Isaac Barrows versions of the Elements (1660), and John Wallis Treatise of Algebra (1685), and the English translations of Claude Dechales French Euclidean Elements (1685). This book offers a completely new perspective of the topic and analyzes mostly unexplored material. It will be of interest to historians of mathematics, mathematicians with an interest in history and historians of renaissance science in general Bibliography Incldues bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 26, 2022) Subject Euclid. Elements. Book 2 SUBJECT Elements (Euclid) fast Subject Euclid's Elements -- History -- 16th century Euclid's Elements -- History -- 17th century Mathematical literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century Mathematical literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Euclid's Elements Mathematical literature Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783031115387 3031115384

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