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Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Practical Mathematics, Practical Mathematicians, and the Case for Transforming the Study of Nature
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    Chapter 2 Handwork and Brainwork: Beyond the Zilsel Thesis
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    Chapter 3 Consuming and Appropriating Practical Mathematics and the Mixed Mathematical Fields, or Being “Influenced” by Them: The Case of the Young Descartes
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    Chapter 4 Mathematics for Sale: Mathematical Practitioners, Instrument Makers, and Communities of Scholars in Sixteenth-Century London
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    Chapter 5 Technologies of Pow(d)er: Military Mathematical Practitioners’ Strategies and Self-Presentation
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    Chapter 6 Machines as Mathematical Instruments
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    Chapter 7 The Making of Practical Optics: Mathematical Practitioners’ Appropriation of Optical Knowledge Between Theory and Practice
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    Chapter 8 Hero of Alexandria and Renaissance Mechanics
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    Chapter 9 Duytsche Mathematique and the Building of a New Society: Pursuits of Mathematics in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
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Chapter title
The Making of Practical Optics: Mathematical Practitioners’ Appropriation of Optical Knowledge Between Theory and Practice
Chapter number 7
Book title
Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Published by
Springer, Cham, January 2017
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49430-2_7
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-949429-6, 978-3-31-949430-2
Authors

Sven Dupré

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