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This book addresses the historiography of mathematics as it was
practiced during the 19th and 20th centuries by paying special
attention to the cultural contexts in which the history of
mathematics was written. In the 19th century, the history of
mathematics was recorded by a diverse range of people trained in
various fields and driven by different motivations and aims. These
backgrounds often shaped not only their writing on the history of
mathematics, but, in some instances, were also influential in their
subsequent reception. During the period from roughly 1880-1940,
mathematics modernized in important ways, with regard to its
content, its conditions for cultivation, and its identity; and the
writing of the history of mathematics played into the last part in
particular. Parallel to the modernization of mathematics, the
history of mathematics gradually evolved into a field of research
with its own journals, societies and academic positions. Reflecting
both a new professional identity and changes in its primary
audience, various shifts of perspective in the way the history of
mathematics was and is written can still be observed to this day.
Initially concentrating on major internal, universal developments
in certain sub-disciplines of mathematics, the field gradually
gravitated towards a focus on contexts of knowledge production
involving individuals, local practices, problems, communities, and
networks. The goal of this book is to link these disciplinary and
methodological changes in the history of mathematics to the broader
cultural contexts of its practitioners, namely the historians of
mathematics during the period in question.
This volume focuses on the outstanding contributions made by botany
and the mathematical sciences to the genesis and development of
early modern garden art and garden culture. The many facets of the
mathematical sciences and botany point to the increasingly
"scientific" approach that was being adopted in and applied to
garden art and garden culture in the early modern period. This
development was deeply embedded in the philosophical, religious,
political, cultural and social contexts, running parallel to the
beginning of processes of scientization so characteristic for
modern European history. This volume strikingly shows how these
various developments are intertwined in gardens for various
purposes.
This volume explores the image of Galileo Galilei s as a scientist
of the early modern age along with cultural perceptions of his
discoveries and writings. It examines the interconnections between
scientific theories and practices and their textual and visual
representations.
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