{"product_id":"british-versions-of-book-ii-leo-corry-9783031115370","title":"British Versions of Book II of Euclid's Elements: Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra (1550-1750)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Its focus is on Book II of the \u003ci\u003eElements\u003c\/i\u003e and the ways in which algebraic symbolism and methods, especially as recently introduced by Fran輟is Vi鑼e and his followers, took center stage as mediators between the two realms, and thus offered new avenues to work out that relationship in idiosyncratic ways not found in earlier editions of the Euclidean text.\u003c\/p\u003e Texts examined include Robert \u003ci\u003eRecorde's Pathway to Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (1551), Henry Billingsley's first English translation of the \u003ci\u003eElements\u003c\/i\u003e (1570), \u003ci\u003eClavis Mathematicae\u003c\/i\u003e by William Oughtred and \u003ci\u003eArtis Analyticae Praxis\u003c\/i\u003e by Thomas Harriot (both published in 1631), Isaac Barrow's versions of the \u003ci\u003eElements\u003c\/i\u003e (1660), and John Wallis \u003ci\u003eTreatise of Algebra\u003c\/i\u003e (1685), and the English translations of Claude Dechales' French Euclidean \u003ci\u003eElements\u003c\/i\u003e (1685). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book offers a completely new perspective of the topic and analyzes mostly unexplored material. It will be of interest to historians of mathematics, mathematicians with an interest in history and historians of renaissance science in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leo Corry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3031115376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031115370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Leo Corry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44364942311679,"sku":"9783031115370","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c804126-9fa6-4949-a982-09110cc86380.jpg?v=1697055741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/british-versions-of-book-ii-leo-corry-9783031115370","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}