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Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / / Benjamin Wardhaugh
| Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / / Benjamin Wardhaugh |
| Autore | Wardhaugh Benjamin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) : 34 b/w illus |
| Disciplina | 516.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Geometry
Mathematics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Early works. |
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Alfred 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 |
| ISBN | 0-691-21981-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554265903321 |
Wardhaugh Benjamin
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| Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] | ||
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Light and Death : Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton / / Judith H. Anderson
| Light and Death : Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton / / Judith H. Anderson |
| Autore | Anderson Judith H. |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
| Disciplina |
820.9/3548
820.93548 |
| Soggetto topico |
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance Allegory Analogy in literature Metaphor in literature Death in literature English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Analogy
Death Donne Kepler Light Literature and science Milton Optics Spenser metaphor |
| ISBN |
0-8232-7282-6
0-8232-7280-X 0-8232-7281-8 |
| Classificazione | LIT019000SCI075000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Issues of Death, Light, and Analogy -- 1. “The Body of This Death”: Donne’s Sermons, Spenser’s Maleger, Milton’s Sin and Death -- 2. Mutability and Mortality in The Faerie Queene -- 3. Satanic Ethos: Evil, Death, and Individuality in Paradise Lost -- 4. Connecting the Cultural Dots: Classical to Modern Traditions of Analogy -- 5. Proportional Thinking in Kepler’s Science of Light -- 6. Analogy, Proportion, and Death in Donne’s Anniversaries -- 7. Milton’s Twilight Zone: Analogy, Light, and Darkness in Paradise Lost -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154725703321 |
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Anderson Judith H.
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| New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The complex itinerary of Leibniz’s planetary theory : physical convictions, metaphysical principles and keplerian inspiration / Paolo Bussotti
| The complex itinerary of Leibniz’s planetary theory : physical convictions, metaphysical principles and keplerian inspiration / Paolo Bussotti |
| Autore | Bussotti, Paolo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Cham], : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | X, 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Soggetto topico |
70F15 - Celestial mechanics [MSC 2020]
70-XX - Mechanics of particles and systems [MSC 2020] 01-XX - History and biography [MSC 2020] 01A50 - History of mathematics in the 18th century [MSC 2020] 01A45 - History of mathematics in the 17th century [MSC 2020] |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Centrifugal force
Gravity Gregory Harmonic motion Huygens Kepler Leibniz Newton Paracentric motion Planetary theory Pre-established harmony |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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| Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0113688 |
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Bussotti, Paolo
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| [Cham], : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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The complex itinerary of Leibniz’s planetary theory : physical convictions, metaphysical principles and keplerian inspiration / Paolo Bussotti
| The complex itinerary of Leibniz’s planetary theory : physical convictions, metaphysical principles and keplerian inspiration / Paolo Bussotti |
| Autore | Bussotti, Paolo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Cham], : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | X, 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Soggetto topico |
01-XX - History and biography [MSC 2020]
01A45 - History of mathematics in the 17th century [MSC 2020] 01A50 - History of mathematics in the 18th century [MSC 2020] 70-XX - Mechanics of particles and systems [MSC 2020] 70F15 - Celestial mechanics [MSC 2020] |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Centrifugal force
Gravity Gregory Harmonic motion Huygens Kepler Leibniz Newton Paracentric motion Planetary theory Pre-established harmony |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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| Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN00113688 |
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Bussotti, Paolo
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| [Cham], : Birkhäuser, : Springer, 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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