Practical geometry and operative knowledge

Configurations

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-222

  Bennett, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33750270344     PISSN: 10631801     EISSN: 10806520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/con.1998.0010     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. David C. Lindberg, "Conceptions of the Scientific Revolution from Bacon to Butterfield: A Preliminary Sketch," in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, ed. David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 1.
2. Bertrand Gille, "Alberti, Leone Battista," in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Scribner, 1970-80), vol. 1, p. 97.
3. Anthony Blunt, Artistic Tlieory in Italy, 1450-1600 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940), pp. 21-22.
4. J. A. Bennett, "The Challenge of Practical Geometry," in Science, Culhtre and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe, ed. Stephen Pumfrey, Paolo L. Rossi, and Maurice Slawinski (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991), pp. 176-190.
5. G. P. Gallucci, Délia fabrica et tiso di diversi stromenti di astronomia et cosmografia (Venice, 1598);
6. Nicolas Bion, Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instnimens de mathématique (Pâtis, I709).
7. Deborah Jean Warner, "What Is a Scientific Instrument and When Did It Become One, and Why?" British Journal for the History of Science 23 (1990): 83-93.
8. A special issue of Journal of the History of Collections, 7:2 (1995),
9. appeared under the title Origins and Evolution of Collecting Scientific Instruments and is generally relevant;
10. see esp. A. J. Turner, "From Mathematical Practice to the History of Science: The Pattern of Collecting Scientific Instruments," pp. 135-150.
11. An early example, the Orrery Collection in the Museum of the History of Science, is described in Anthony Turner, Early Scientific Instruments: Europe 1400-1800 (London: Sotheby's, 1987), pp. 231-254.
12. Sharon L. Gibbs, Janice A. Henderson, and Derek De Solla Price, A Computerized Checklist of Astrolabes (New Haven: Yale University, Department of History of Science and Medicine, 1973).
13. Alan Stimson, The Mariner's Astrolabe: A Survey of Known, Surviving Sea Astrolabes (Utrecht: HES, 1988).
14. Willem F. J. Mörzer Bruyns, The Cross-Staff: History and Development of a Navigational Instrument (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, 1994).
15. Another example of the unrepresentative nature of museum collections is dealt with in Jim Bennett, The Measurers: A Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century (Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 1995).
16. Olaf Pedersen, A Survey of the Almagest (Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag, 1974).
17. J. Windsor, A Bibliography of Ptolemy's Geography (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1884).
18. It is reproduced, for example, in Penelope Gouk, The Ivory Sundials of Nuremberg, 1500-1700 (Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1988), p. 84.
19. Claudius Ptolemy, The Geography, trans. and ed. Edward L. Stevenson (New York: Dover, 1991), p. 29.
20. Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia, facsimile of the edition of Strassburg, with an introduction by Raleigh A. Skelton (1513; Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1966), p.V.
21. Claudius Ptolemy, In hoc opère hxc cotinentur. Noua translatio primi libri geograplrix C. Ptolomi, I. Vemero interprète, Irans. Johannes Werner (Nuremberg, 1514).
22. William Cuningham, Tlie Cosmographical Classe (London, 1559).
23. Johannes Werner, Introductio geogräphica Pétri Aplani in Doctissimas Vemeri annotationes (Ingolstadt, 1533).
24. Pedro Nuflez, Tratado da sphera com a tlieorica do sol e da lua e ho primeiro livra da Geographia de Claudio Ptolemeo, tirados novamente de Lat. pello doutorP. Nuiiez (Lisbon, 1537).
25. Peter Apian, Cosmographia, per Geminam Plirysium restituta (Antwerp, 1539), and later editions.
26. See Jim Bennett and Stephen Johnston, Tlie Geometry of War, 1500-1750 (Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 1996).
27. J. A. Bennett, "Geometry and Surveying in Early-Seventeenth-Century England," Annals of Science 48 (1991): 345-354.
28. All of these examples are considered in Jim Bennett and Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Sphaera Mundi: Astronomy Books, 1478-1600 (Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1994).
29. Mara Miniati, ed., Museo di Storia delta Scienza: Catalogo (Florence: Giunti, 1991), p. 16.
30. Elly Dekker and Peter van der Krogt, Globes oftlie Western World (London: Zwemmer, 1993).
31. Gemma Frisius, Deprinciplis astronomiae & cosmographiae (Antwerp, 1530), title-page.
32. Roger Palmer, Tlie English Globe (London, 1679), p. 1.
33. Gemma Frisius, De astrolabo catliolico liber (Antwerp, 1556), f. 4v.
34. Francis R. Maddison, Hugo Helt and the Rojas Astrolabe Projection (Coimbra: Junta de Investigates do Ultramar, 1966).
35. Juan de Rojas, Commentariorum in astrolabium (Paris, 1551).
36. Gerard L'E. Turner, "The Florentine Workshop of Giovan Battista Giusti, 1556-C.1575," Nuntius 10 (1995): 131-172.
37. Egnatio Danti, Trattato dell'uso et délia fabbrica dell'astrolabio (Florence, 1569), second pagination, p. 5.
38. Robert Hooke, Micrographie (London, 1665), preface, sigs. a2-b.
39. J. A. Bennett, "Architecture and Mathematical Practice in England, 1550-1650," in English Architecture Public and Private, ed. John Bold and Edward Chaney (London: Hambledon Press, 1995), pp. 23-29.
40. J. A. Bennett, "The Mechanics' Philosophy and the Mechanical Philosophy," History of Science 24 (1986): 1-28
41. Robert Norman, TheNewe Attractive (London, 1581).
42. Leonard and Thomas Digges, A Geometrical Practise Named Pantometria (London, 1571), sig. liiii.