`Disturbed' by Euclid: Thomas Fincke and the reading of Ramist mathematics in sixteenth-century Germany

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2020.10.001zbMath1471.01011OpenAlexW3110340453MaRDI QIDQ2034535

Kevin Gerard Tracey

Publication date: 22 June 2021

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2020.10.001

zbMATH Keywords

transmissionmathematics teachinghistoriographyreceptionmarginaliaRamism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of geometry (51-03) History of mathematics education (97-03)

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