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. |
Soggetto non controllato |
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 | ||
Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Teaching Dante |
Autore | Metress Christopher |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (140 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Religion & beliefs |
Soggetto non controllato |
Dante
Richard Rorty ethics philosophy interdisciplinary pedagogy Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy Homer The Odyssey Ulysses core curriculum noumena symbolism higher education core and general education curricula literary studies interdisciplinarity great books programs teaching virtue formation understanding prayer hope friendship Christian Humanism The Christian Intellectual Tradition Literature Pedagogy Milton Spenser Purgatorio love education Virgil Augustine Confessions Commedia Inferno Paradiso theology and poetry medieval astrology Beatrice Gospel of Luke Emmaus figura Christ Eric Auerbach history of theology medieval theology Divine Comedy undergraduate seminar great books caritas Catholicism theology poetry the liberal arts Great Books programs |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557503503321 |
Metress Christopher | ||
Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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