Using Euclid in a practical context: Claude Richard’s course on sectors at the Jesuit Imperial College in 17th century Spain
Ausejo, Elena (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Resumen: This paper looks at two manuscripts kept at the Spanish Royal Academy of History (Madrid) containing the course on sectors that Professor Claude Richard taught at the Jesuit Imperial College in Madrid. The literary form of the course goes beyond practitioners’ commonplace books, for it aims at teaching practical geometry on a solid Euclidean basis while claiming that the entire practical geometry consists of the brief and easy use of pantometers, that is, Coignet-type sectors. Actually, the course focuses on checking the solid geometric foundations of the scales graduation, which would justify the numerical consideration of continuous magnitudes as quantities –accepting a margin of error sensorially imperceptible and irrelevant for the purposes of application.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.47101/llull.2022.45.90.ausejo
Año: 2022
Publicado en: Llull 45, 90 (2022), 35-67
ISSN: 0210-8615
Factor impacto CITESCORE: 0.2 - Medicine (Q4)
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.103 - History and Philosophy of Science (Q4) - History (Q4)
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/HAR2015-70985-P
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Área Historia de la Ciencia (Dpto. Genérico)
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Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.47101/llull.2022.45.90.ausejo
Año: 2022
Publicado en: Llull 45, 90 (2022), 35-67
ISSN: 0210-8615
Factor impacto CITESCORE: 0.2 - Medicine (Q4)
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.103 - History and Philosophy of Science (Q4) - History (Q4)
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/HAR2015-70985-P
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Área Historia de la Ciencia (Dpto. Genérico)
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. Exportado de SIDERAL (2023-09-13-14:59:37)
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