04972nam 2200889 450 991055426590332120221130162246.00-691-21981-810.1515/9780691219813(CKB)4100000011977150(DE-B1597)571838(DE-B1597)9780691219813(MiAaPQ)EBC6548234(Au-PeEL)EBL6548234(OCoLC)1252422304(EXLCZ)99410000001197715020211019d2021 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEncounters with Euclid how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world /Benjamin WardhaughPrinceton, New Jersey :Princeton University Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (416 p.) 34 b/w illus0-691-21169-8 Frontmatter --Contents --Prologue --I: AUTHOR --Alexandria --Elephantine --Hypsicles --Theon of Alexandria --Stephanos the scribe --Al-Hajjaj --Adelard --Erhard Ratdolt --Marget Seymer her hand --Edward Bernard --Interlude --II: SAGE --Plato --Proclus Diadochus --Hroswitha of Gandersheim --Rabbi Levi ben Gershom --Christoph Clavius --Xu Guangqi --Blame not our author --Baruch Spinoza --Anne Lister --Interlude --III: HERO --Petechonsis --Dividing the monochord --Hyginus --Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani --Lady Geometria --Piero della Francesca --Euclid Speidell --Isaac Newton --Interlude --IV: SHADOW AND MASK --Mary Fairfax --François Peyrard --Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii --Maggie and Tom --Simson in Urdu --His modern rivals --Thomas Little Heath --Max Ernst --Euclidean designs --Lambda --Epilogue --Acknowledgements --Image Credits --Notes on Sources --Select Bibliography --IndexA sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever writtenEuclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. Encounters with Euclid tells the story of this incomparable mathematical masterpiece, taking readers from its origins in the ancient world to its lasting influence today.In this lively and informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid’s text journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a work of philosophy, while others viewed it as a practical guide to life. He examines the many different contexts in which Euclid's book and his geometry were put to use, from the Neoplatonic school at Athens and the workshops of Restoration London to the Jesuit mission in China and the artisans' studios of medieval Baghdad. Wardhaugh shows how the Elements inspired ideas in theology, art, and music, and how the book has acquired new relevance to the strange geometries of dark matter and curved space.Encounters with Euclid traces the life and afterlives of one of the most remarkable works of mathematics ever written, revealing its continuing role in the timeless search for order and reason in an unruly world.GeometryMathematicsEarly works.fastAlfred North Whitehead.Baruch Spinoza.Bodleian Library.Copernicus.Edna St. Vincent Millay.Euclidean geometry.Galileo Galilei.Galileo.Hobbes.Johannes Kepler.Kepler.Platonic solids.Proclus.Ptolemaic Egypt.Pythagorean theorem.Spinoza.Thales' theorem.Thomas Hobbes.Vatican Library.book history.geometric algebra.golden ratio.great books.history of math.history of mathematics.history of the book.lemma.logic.mathematical proofs.music theory.parallel postulate.perspective.plane geometry.prime numbers.Geometry.Mathematics.516.2Wardhaugh Benjamin1219648MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910554265903321Encounters with Euclid2820078UNINA05651nam 2201045Ia 450 991078900080332120210623220825.01-282-77257-097866127725730-520-94348-110.1525/9780520943483(CKB)3390000000007003(EBL)922910(OCoLC)794663678(SSID)ssj0000436004(PQKBManifestationID)11925686(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000436004(PQKBWorkID)10426737(PQKB)10200547(MiAaPQ)EBC922910(OCoLC)670484281(MdBmJHUP)muse30793(DE-B1597)519456(DE-B1597)9780520943483(Au-PeEL)EBL922910(CaPaEBR)ebr10675748(CaONFJC)MIL277257(dli)HEB30978(MiU)MIU01000000000000012335663(EXLCZ)99339000000000700320080916d2009 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrThe environment and world history[electronic resource] /edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth PomeranzBerkeley University of California Pressc20091 online resource (381 p.)The California world history library ;9Description based upon print version of record.0-520-25687-5 0-520-25688-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index.Front matter --THE CALIFORNIA WORLD HISTORY LIBRARY --CONTENTS --FIGURES, MAPS, AND TABLES --PREFACE --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --1. Introduction: World History and Environmental History --2. The Big Story: Human History, Energy Regimes, and the Environment --3. Toward a Global System of Property Rights in Land --4. The Transformation of the Middle Eastern Environment, 1500 b.c.e.-2000 C.E.. --5. The Transformation of China's Environment, 1500-2000 --6. The Rhine as a World River --7. Continuity and Transformation: Colonial Rice Frontiers and Their Environmental Impact on the Great River Deltas of Mainland Southeast Asia --8. Beyond the Colonial Paradigm: African History and Environmental History in Large-Scale Perspective --9. Environmental Histories of India: Of States, Landscapes, and Ecologies --10. Latin American Environmental History: A Shifting Old/New Field --11. The Predatory Tribute-Taking State: A Framework for Understanding Russian Environmental History --Select Bibliography --List of Contributors --IndexSince around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern and modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more. Rather than attributing environmental change largely to European science, technology, and capitalism, the essays illuminate a series of culturally distinctive, yet often parallel developments arising in many parts of the world, leading to intensified exploitation of land and water. The wide range of regional studies-including some in Russia, China, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Southern Africa, and Western Europe-together with the book's broader thematic essays makes The Environment and World History ideal for courses that seek to incorporate the environment and environmental change more fully into a truly integrative understanding of world history. CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Adas, William Beinart, Edmund Burke III, Mark Cioc, Kenneth Pomeranz, Mahesh Rangarajan, John F. Richards, Lise Sedrez, Douglas R. WeinerCalifornia world history library ;9.Human ecologyHistoryNatureEffect of human beings onHistoryEnvironmental sciencesHistoryafrican environment.california world history library.chinese environment.commercialism.developmentalism.ecology.energy regimes.environmental change.environmental history.environmentalism.fossil fuel revolution.global environment history.historical.history.human history.imperialism.indian environment.industrialization.latin american environment.middle eastern environment.politics of knowledge.population growth.property rights.russian environment.southeast asian environment.world history.Human ecologyHistory.NatureEffect of human beings onHistory.Environmental sciencesHistory.304.2NB 5600rvkBurke Edmund1940-Pomeranz KennethMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789000803321Environment and world history2831867UNINA