{"product_id":"beyond-the-learned-academy-philip-beeley-9780198863953","title":"Beyond the Learned Academy: The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850","description":"The tremendous growth of the mathematical sciences in the early modern world was reflected contemporaneously in an increasingly sophisticated level of practical mathematics in fields such as merchants' accounts, instrument making, teaching, navigation, and gauging. In many ways, mathematics shaped the knowledge culture of the age, infiltrating workshops, dockyards, and warehouses, before extending through the factories of the Industrial Revolution to the trading companies and banks of the nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile theoretical developments in the history of mathematics have been made the topic of numerous scholarly investigations, in many cases based around the work of key figures such as Descartes, Huygens, Leibniz, or Newton, practical mathematics, especially from the seventeenth century onwards, has been largely neglected. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe present volume, comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, seeks to fill this gap by exemplifying the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Beeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198863950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198863953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 2.00d","brand":"Philip Beeley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45331910492415,"sku":"9780198863953","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55139880-9e98-4dba-91d3-a53d7dc8e74c.jpg?v=1713971214","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-the-learned-academy-philip-beeley-9780198863953","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}