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  2. SS 14 - The Scientific Movement of the 17th Century

T2 - Mechanical arts and practical mathematics in the marketplace

Mathematics in the university
Introduction
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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Armillary Sphere
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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Nova reperta: technologies unknown to the ancients

 

 

Nova reperta: title page
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I. America
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2. Magnetic Compass
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3. Gunpowder
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4. Printing
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5. Mechanical clock
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6. Guaiacum and syphilis
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7. Distillation
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8. Silk or the silk worm
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9. Stirrups
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10. The Watermill
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11. The Windmill
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12. Olive oil
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13. Sugar
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14. Oil paint
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15. Eyeglasses
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16. Terrestrial longitude
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17. Polishing weapons
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18. The astrolabe
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19. Copper engraving
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Classical architecture and mathematics: the five orders
Introduction: architecture becomes a liberal art
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Vitruvius on architecture
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Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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Towers of the Orders before Merton
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Classical architecture arrives in Oxford, 1599
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Merton College, 1608-10
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Wadham College, 1610-13
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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The five orders and the five platonic solids: 'Mathematical Model', 1620
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Architectural drawing as craft skill
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Gnomonics: sundials in Oxford
Gnomonics
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Sundials in antiquity
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Portable Sundials
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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Sundials in Oxford today
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The clock as microcosm
Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Astronomical tower clocks
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Modelling the movements of the heavens
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Astronomical table clock
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Astrolabe table clock
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Automata
Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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