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    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE…

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    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE…

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    Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the…

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    Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for proposing a radical reform of musical notation (these writings…

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    Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music: Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical…

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    How to Read Historical Mathematics

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    Writings by early mathematicians feature language and notations that are quite different from what we’re familiar with today. Sourcebooks on the history of mathematics provide some guidance, but what has…

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    A Wealth of Numbers: An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing

    An anthology that gathers together nearly one hundred selections from the past 500 years of popular math writing. Ranging from the late fifteenth to the late twentieth century, and drawing…

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    The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    At a time of increasing interest in the history of mathematics, this book presents seven case studies illustrating the different ways that mathematical histories have been written since the seventeenth…

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    Encounters with Euclid

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever written

    Euclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics-and of culture. Written around 300…

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    Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653-1705

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    How, in 1705, was Thomas Salmon, a parson from Bedfordshire, able to persuade the Royal Society that a musical performance could constitute a scientific experiment? Or that the judgement of…

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    Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music: Volume I: An Essay to the Advancement of Musick and the Ensuing Controversy, 1672-3

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the…

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    Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    ‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR…

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    The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid’s Elements

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the…

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    Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.

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    Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

    Benjamin Wardhaugh

    ‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR…

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    John Wallis: Writings on Music

    John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music…

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    John Wallis: Writings on Music

    John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music…

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    The Correspondence of Charles Hutton: Mathematical Networks in Georgian Britain

    Dr. Benjamin Wardhaugh (All Souls College, University of Oxford)

    This book is the first edition of the surviving correspondence of celebrated Georgain mathematician and educator Charles Hutton (1737-1823).

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    John Birchensha: Writings on Music

    John Birchensha (c 1605-1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s…

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    John Birchensha: Writings on Music

    John Birchensha (c 1605-1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s…

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    Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books

    The volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical texts across different social milieus.

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    Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe

    The volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical texts across different social milieus.

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