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Titolo |
Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College : studies in the intellectual history of London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / / edited by Francis Ames-Lewis |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-351-89992-9 |
1-315-24306-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Philanthropists - Great Britain |
Diplomats - Great Britain |
Merchants - Great Britain |
Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Biography |
London (England) Intellectual life 16th century |
London (England) Intellectual life 17th century |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Reconstructing London : Sir Thomas Gresham and Bishopsgate / Ann Saunders -- 2. Sir Thomas and the 'House of Gresham' : activities of a mercermerchant adventurer / Ian Blanchard -- 3. Citizen and mercer : Sir Thomas Gresham and the social and political world of the city of London / Vanessa Harding -- 4. Failed transmission : Sir Thomas Gresham, reproduction, and the background to Gresham's professorship of physic / Margaret Felling -- 5. Early insurance in and around the Royal Exchange / Trevor Sibbett -- 6. Sculpture at the Royal Exchange in the seventeenth century / Katharine Gibson -- 7. Civic rhetoric, 1560-1640 / Lynette Hunter -- 8. Plato in the Tudor academies / Sarah Hutton -- 9. Testimonia humanitatis : the early lectures of Henry Savile / Robert Goulding -- 10. 'No small force' : natural philosophy and mathematics in Thomas Gresham's London / Stephen Clucas -- 11. Gresham College and London practitioners : the nature of the English mathematical community / Mordechai Feingold -- 12. Christopher Wren's Greshamite history of astronomy and geometry |
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