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Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics - A History of the Royal Mathematical School Within Christ's Hospital, London 1673-1868 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics - A History of the Royal Mathematical School Within Christ's Hospital, London 1673-1868 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: History of Mathematics Education
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This book tells one of the greatest stories in the history of
school mathematics. Two of the names in the title-Samuel Pepys and
Isaac Newton-need no introduction, and this book draws attention to
their special contributions to the history of school mathematics.
According to Ellerton and Clements, during the last quarter of the
seventeenth century Pepys and Newton were key players in defining
what school mathematics beyond arithmetic and elementary geometry
might look like. The scene at which most of the action occurred was
Christ's Hospital, which was a school, ostensibly for the poor, in
central London. The Royal Mathematical School (RMS) was established
at Christ's Hospital in 1673. It was the less well-known James
Hodgson, a fine mathematician and RMS master between 1709 and 1755,
who demonstrated that topics such as logarithms, plane and
spherical trigonometry, and the application of these to navigation,
might systematically and successfully be taught to 12- to
16-year-old school children. From a wider
history-of-school-education perspective, this book tells how the
world's first secondary-school mathematics program was created and
how, slowly but surely, what was being achieved at RMS began to
influence school mathematics in other parts of Great Britain,
Europe, and America. The book has been written from the perspective
of the history of school mathematics. Ellerton and Clements's
analyses of pertinent literature and of archival data, and their
interpretations of those analyses, have led them to conclude that
RMS was the first major school in the world to teach
mathematics-beyond-arithmetic, on a systematic basis, to students
aged between 12 and 16. Throughout the book, Ellerton and Clements
examine issues through the lens of a lag-time theoretical
perspective. From a historiographical perspective, this book
emphasizes how the history of RMS can be portrayed in very
different ways, depending on the vantage point from which the
history is written. The authors write from the vantage point of
international developments in school mathematics education and,
therefore, their history of RMS differs from all other histories of
RMS, most of which were written from the perspective of the history
of Christ's Hospital.
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