Beating untrodden paths: James Gregory and his Italian readers

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Beating untrodden paths: James Gregory and his Italian readers

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Beating untrodden paths: James Gregory and his Italian readers

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GJ19-03125Y" target="_blank" >GJ19-03125Y: Matematika v Českých zemích: od jezuitského učení po Bernarda Bolzana</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

British Journal for the History of Mathematics

ISSN

2637-5451

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

25-42

Kód UT WoS článku

000619263600003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85076914283