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The worlds of Oronce Fine, mathematics, instruments and print in Renaissance France, edited by Alexander Marr

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The worlds of Oronce Fine, mathematics, instruments and print in Renaissance France, edited by Alexander Marr

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

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non fiction

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The worlds of Oronce Fine

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bibliography

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497931863

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edited by Alexander Marr

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mathematics, instruments and print in Renaissance France

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Alexander Marr -- Oronce Fine's role as royal lecturer / Isabelle Pantin -- The epistemological foundations of the propaedeutic status of mathematics according to the epistolary and prefatory writings of Oronce Fine / Angela Axworthy -- Oronce Fine's practical geometry / Pascal Brioist -- Printing practical mathematics: Oronce Fine's 'De speculo ustorio' between paper and craft / Sven Dupré -- Oronce Fine's sundials: the sources and influences of 'De solaribus horologiis' / Catherine Eagleton -- Cosmography and geography in the sixteenth century, the position of Oronce Fine between mathematics and history / Jean-Marc Besse -- Early modern cosmography: Fine's 'Sphaera mundi' in content and context / Adam Mosley -- Oronce Fine and cartographical methods / Jean-Jacques Brioist -- Pedro Nunes against Oronce Fine: content and context of a refutation / Henrique Leitão -- Oronce Fine's legacy in the French algebraic tradition: Peletier, Ramus and Gosselin / Giovanna Cifoletti -- Dropped out of sight: Oronce Fine and the water-clock in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Anthony Turner -- Epilogue / Stephen Clucas -- Index

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Mathematics, instruments and print in Renaissance France

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