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Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefevre d'Etaples

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Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples - Oosterhoff, Richard J.
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In 1503, for the first time, a student in Paris was able to spend his entire university career studying only the printed textbooks of his teacher, thanks to the works of the humanist and university reformer Jacques Lef???vre d'???taples (c. 1455-1536). As printed books became central to the intellectual habits of following generations, Lef???vre turned especially to mathematics as a way to renovate the medieval university. Making Mathematical Culture argues this was a pivatol moment in the cultural history of Europe and ...

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Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples 2018, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198823520

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