Reading by Drawing

DOI10.4324/9781003102557-4MaRDI QIDQ6167187zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors

Publication date 7 July 2023

Published in Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003102557-4

zbMATH Keywords

17th century england, Savilian professorEdmond HalleyEuclidgeometric diagramgeometric drawinggreek mathematicsIsaac NewtonJohn AubreyJohn PellJoseph and James Moxonroyal mathematical schoolThomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General applied mathematics (00A69) History and biography (01-XX) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of geometry (51-03)

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