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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| 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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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 332/.092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philanthropists - Great Britain |
| Diplomats - Great Britain | |
| Merchants - Great Britain | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Biography |
| London (England) Intellectual life 16th century | |
| London (England) Intellectual life 17th century | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Ames-LewisFrancis |
| Note generali: | First published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 / Jim Bennett -- 13. Why translate Serlio? / J.V.Field. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In March 1997 the Society for Renaissance Studies and Gresham College together organised a conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College's foundation. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College |
| ISBN: | 1-351-89992-9 |
| 1-315-24306-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154987303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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