We have already looked at the philosophical motivation behind the mathematisation of science in the early modern period as well as the impetus supplied by the mathematical practitioners but there i…| The Renaissance Mathematicus
Back in 2020, I wrote a very positive review of Benjamin Wardhaugh’s fascination volume, The Book of Wonder: The Many Lives of Euclid’s Elements. This led me to also writing a positive review of Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe of which Wardhaugh was both a … Continue reading →| The Renaissance Mathematicus
Today we look at the life and work of the physicist and mathematician, Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), who is the second member of what I have termed the Galilei-Castelli school of mathema…| The Renaissance Mathematicus
Have written far too many words damning Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell’s The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers (Penguin,…| The Renaissance Mathematicus