The Elizabethan mathematics of everything: John Dee's 'Mathematicall praeface' to Euclid's Elements

Jennifer M. Rampling

doi:10.1080/17498430.2011.580136

The Elizabethan mathematics of everything: John Dee's 'Mathematicall praeface' to Euclid's Elements

Jennifer M. Rampling

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This article considers John Dee's famous classification and justification of 'the Sciences, and Artes Mathematicall' in his Mathematicall praeface to Henry Billingsley's Elements of geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570), the first English translation of Euclid. It is a revised version of a lecture presented to the British Society for the History of Mathematics Autumn Meeting, October 2010, under the title 'John Dee and the Elizabethan Mathematics of Everything'.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	135-146
Number of pages	12
Journal	BSHM Bulletin
Volume	26
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2011.580136
State	Published - Nov 2011
Externally published	Yes

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Mathematics (miscellaneous)
Education
History and Philosophy of Science

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