Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554–1700

Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554–1700
Author: Bruce Stanley Burdick
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2009-03-16
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 142140205X

This magisterial annotated bibliography of the earliest mathematical works to be printed in the New World challenges long-held assumptions about the earliest examples of American mathematical endeavor. Bruce Stanley Burdick brings together mathematical writings from Mexico, Lima, and the English colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York. The book provides important information such as author, printer, place of publication, and location of original copies of each of the works discussed. Burdick’s exhaustive research has unearthed numerous examples of books not previously cataloged as mathematical. While it was thought that no mathematical writings in English were printed in the Americas before 1703, Burdick gives scholars one of their first chances to discover Jacob Taylor’s 1697 Tenebrae, a treatise on solving triangles and other figures using basic trigonometry. He also goes beyond the English language to discuss works in Spanish and Latin, such as Alonso de la Vera Cruz's 1554 logic text, the Recognitio Summularum; a book on astrology by Enrico Martínez; books on the nature of comets by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Eusebio Francisco Kino; and a 1676 almanac by Feliciana Ruiz, the first woman to produce a mathematical work in the Americas. Those fascinated by mathematics, its history, and its culture will note with interest that many of these works, including all of the earliest ones, are from Mexico, not from what is now the United States. As such, the book will challenge us to rethink the history of mathematics on the American continents.

The Red River Expedition

The Red River Expedition
Author: George Lightfoot Huyshe
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1858
Genre: Red River Expedition, 1870
ISBN:

The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo

The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo
Author: José Chabás
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401702136

The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo is for historians working in the fields of astronomy, science, the Middle Ages, Spanish and other Romance languages. It is also of interest to scholars interested in the history of Castile, in Castilian-French relations in the Middle Ages and in the history of patronage. It explores the Castilian canons of the Alfonsine Tables and offers a study of their context, language, astronomical content, and diffusion. The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo is unique in that it: includes an edition of a crucial text in history of science; provides an explanation of astronomy as it was practiced in the Middle Ages; presents abundant material on early scientific language in Castilian; presents new material on the diffusion of Alfonsine astronomy in Europe; describes the role of royal patronage of science in a medieval context.

Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes

Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes
Author: Brian S. Bauer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

"This joint project of an astrophysicist (Dearborn) and an archeologist (Bauer) was written for the use of astronomers, archeologists, and historians. Includes sufficient background information for readers with little or no knowledge of the Andes. Text sheds new light on relationship between Inca cosmology and social structure"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Memorias Antiguas Historiales Y Políticas Del Perú

Memorias Antiguas Historiales Y Políticas Del Perú
Author: Sabine Hyland
Publisher: Yale Peabody Museum
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This is a transcription of Spanish priest and explorer Fernando de Montesinos' 1644 manuscript for Book II of Memorias historiales, a rare reference on early Peru and Andean culture. Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum