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