The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model
Article in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (May 2024)
Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Introduction: Practical Mathematics, Practical Mathematicians, and the Case for Transforming the Study of Nature
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 Handwork and Brainwork: Beyond the Zilsel Thesis
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 Consuming and Appropriating Practical Mathematics and the Mixed Mathematical Fields, or Being “Influenced” by Them: The Case of the Young Descartes
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 Mathematics for Sale: Mathematical Practitioners, Instrument Makers, and Communities of Scholars in Sixteenth-Century London
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 Technologies of Pow(d)er: Military Mathematical Practitioners’ Strategies and Self-Presentation
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 Machines as Mathematical Instruments
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 The Making of Practical Optics: Mathematical Practitioners’ Appropriation of Optical Knowledge Between Theory and Practice
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 Hero of Alexandria and Renaissance Mechanics
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 Duytsche Mathematique and the Building of a New Society: Pursuits of Mathematics in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
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Mathematics for Sale: Mathematical Practitioners, Instrument Makers, and Communities of Scholars in Sixteenth-Century London