Beating untrodden paths: James Gregory and his Italian readers

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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2019.1701860" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2019.1701860</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2019.1701860" target="_blank" >10.1080/26375451.2019.1701860</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Beating untrodden paths: James Gregory and his Italian readers
Original language description
In this paper, I shall reconstruct the stay in Italy of James Gregory (1638–1675), Regius professor of mathematics at St Andrews. According to a standard account, Gregory spent four years (1664–1668) in Padua, as Stephano degli Angeli’s student. However, this claim is problematic. First, Gregory’s stay in Padua is confirmed only for the years 1667–1668. Second, the existence of a partial scribal copy of Vera quadratura circuli, ellipseos et hyperbolae in sua propria specie inventa et demonstrata, Gregory’s debut work in the domain of quadrature problems, as well as a number of letters preserved at the National Library of Florence, suggest that relations between Gregory and Italian mathematicians were more complex and varied than have been suspected. On the basis of new, albeit scarce, textual evidence, I shall advance a few conjectures regarding scholars and philosophers that Gregory could have met in Padua, Rome and perhaps Florence.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ19-03125Y" target="_blank" >GJ19-03125Y: Mathematics in the Czech lands: from the Jesuit teaching to Bernard Bolzano</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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