Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780367345327 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 226 str.

Eleanor Chan

Opis

This book examines the broad shift towards the establishment of geometry as a practical and analytical tool in early modern Europe. It will appeal to scholars and students of early modern history, as well as those interested in cultural history and the Scientific Revolution.  

Spis treści

Introduction: Crafting Thought  1. The Early Modern Picture/Beeld  2. Point  3. Line  4. Surface  5. Body  Conclusion: Thought Crafted

O autorze

Eleanor Chan is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Music department at the University of Manchester. Her work focuses on the interaction between word, image and notation in early modern Europe, with a particular interest　in the musical and the mathematical. She received her PhD in History of Art from the University of Cambridge and has published widely, with articles on the visual implications of the English cadence, the interdisciplinary interaction between music and art in the English Renaissance, Anglo-Dutch geometry and realism, the Amsterdam city harpsichord case and mathematical visual culture, and the competing editions of Descartes' anatomical treatise.