Rethinking Stevin, Stevin Rethinking: Constructions of a Dutch Polymath - Couverture rigide

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Synopsis

This book studies the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620) as a new type of man of knowing. Stevin exemplifies a wider trend of polymathy in the early modern period. Polymaths played a crucial role in the transformation of European learning.

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À propos de l?auteur

Karel Davids, Ph.D (1986), Leiden University, is Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published on economic and social history, the history of technology, the history of knowledge and maritime history, particularly in the early modern period. Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Ph.D. (1999), University of Twente, is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at that university and Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of Early Modern History of Knowledge at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published on early modern knowledge practices, in particular associated with the mathematical sciences. Rienk Vermij, Ph.D. (1991), Utrecht University, is Professor at the Department of History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. He has published on history of science and intellectual history generally, especially on the period from the sixteenth century to the Enlightenment. Ida Stamhuis, PhD (1989), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, was Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Honorary Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published on history of statistics, history of women in science and history of genetics.

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