A Prodigy Of Universal Genius Robert Leslie Ellis 1817 1859
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Author |
: Lukas M. Verburgt |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 2022-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3030852601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783030852603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859 by : Lukas M. Verburgt
This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817–1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture. Written by a diverse team of experts, the chapters in the book’s first part contain in-depth examinations of, among other things, Ellis’s family, education, Bacon scholarship and mathematical contributions. The second part consists of annotated transcriptions of a selection of Ellis’s diaries and correspondence. Taken together, A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817–1859 is a rich resource for historians of science, historians of mathematics and Victorian scholars alike. Robert Leslie Ellis was one of the most intriguing and wide-ranging intellectual figures of early Victorian Britain, his contributions ranging from advanced mathematical analysis to profound commentaries on philosophy and classics and a decisive role in the orientation of mid-nineteenth century scholarship. This very welcome collection offers both new and authoritative commentaries on the work, setting it in the context of the mathematical, philosophical and cultural milieux of the period, together with fascinating passages from the wealth of unpublished papers Ellis composed during his brief and brilliant career. - Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Author |
: Lukas M. Verburgt |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 459 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030852580 |
ISBN-13 |
: 303085258X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859 by : Lukas M. Verburgt
Places Ellis at the heart of early-Victorian Cambridge with in-depth descriptions on his scientific work and tragic life Provides a unique glimpse into Victorian intellectual culture, based on previously unpublished archival materials This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture. Written by a diverse team of experts, the chapters in the book's first part contain in-depth examinations of, among other things, Ellis's family, education, Bacon scholarship and mathematical contributions. The second part consists of annotated transcriptions of a selection of Ellis's diaries and correspondence. Taken together, A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859 is a rich resource for historians of science, historians of mathematics and Victorian scholars alike. Robert Leslie Ellis was one of the most intriguing and wide-ranging intellectual figures of early Victorian Britain, his contributions ranging from advanced mathematical analysis to profound commentaries on philosophy and classics and a decisive role in the orientation of mid-nineteenth century scholarship. This very welcome collection offers both new and authoritative commentaries on the work, setting it in the context of the mathematical, philosophical and cultural milieux of the period, together with fascinating passages from the wealth of unpublished papers Ellis composed during his brief and brilliant career. - Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
Author |
: Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities Mordechai Feingold |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2023-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192884220 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192884220 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of Universities: Volume XXXV / 2 by : Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities Mordechai Feingold
History of Universities XXXV/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.
Author |
: Karen Attar |
Publisher |
: Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2024-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781805113294 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1805113291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Augustus De Morgan, Polymath by : Karen Attar
When Augustus De Morgan died in 1871, he was described as ‘one of the profoundest mathematicians in the United Kingdom’ and even as ‘the greatest of our mathematicians’. But he was far more than just a mathematician. Because much of his voluminous written output on various subjects was scattered throughout journals and encyclopaedias, the breadth of his interests and contributions has been underappreciated by historians. Now, renewed interest in De Morgan’s life and work has coincided with the digitization of his extensive library, revealing the extent to which he pioneered and influenced the development of not merely mathematics but also logic, astronomy, the history of mathematics, education, and bibliography. This edited collection celebrates De Morgan as a polymath. Drawing together multiple elements of his activity from a range of publications and archives, its contributors re-assess his academic work, his place in his intellectual environment, and his legacy. The result offers new insight into De Morgan himself as well as the wider circles in which he moved, including his family life.
Author |
: Philip Beeley |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 513 |
Release |
: 2024-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198863953 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198863950 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the Learned Academy by : Philip Beeley
Comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, this volume aims to exemplify the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century.
Author |
: Stephen Harrison |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2021-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110719321 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110719320 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Classical Scholarship and Its History by : Stephen Harrison
It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the book and of publishing, and (especially) in the detailed intellectual contextualisation of classical scholarship as a form of classical reception has fundamentally changed the way the history of British classics and its study is viewed. A generation ago the history of classical scholarship still consisted largely of accounts of particular scholars and groups of scholars written by other scholars from a broadly biographical and ‘heroic individual’ perspective. In these works scholars often sought to find their own place in the great tradition, choosing to praise or blame those whose work they admired or deprecated, and to identify with particular schools or trends, and there were few attempts to provide a broader and less prosopographical perspective. Almost all the chapters in the volume originated as papers at a conference in honour of the honorand, and have been improved both by discussion there and by the rigorous peer-review process conducted by the two experienced editors. It covers various aspects of classical reception, with a particular focus on the history of scholars, their institutions, and their writings; the main focus is on the UK, but there are also substantial engagements with continental Europe and (especially) the USA; the period covered runs from the Renaissance to the present. The cast contains a number of world-famous names. Unusually, the volume also contains an essay by the honorand, but we are very keen to include this, especially as it focusses on the topic of scholarly collaboration.
Author |
: Lukas M. Verburgt |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages |
: 563 |
Release |
: 2024-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822991526 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822991527 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Whewell by : Lukas M. Verburgt
William Whewell, the famous master of Trinity College in Cambridge, was a central figure in nineteenth-century British scientific culture and one of the last great polymaths. His influential work ranged from history and philosophy of science, education, architecture, mineralogy, and political economy to mathematics, engineering, natural theology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy. Among his many gifts to science was his role as cofounder and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and his wordsmithing; he coined the terms scientist, physicist, linguistics, and electrode. While he was himself an opponent of evolution through natural selection, Whewell’s most famous works, including his Bridgewater Treatise (1833) and Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840), played a formative role in Charles Darwin’s creation of the theory of evolution. William Whewell: Victorian Polymath reexamines the whole of Whewell’s oeuvre, as well as the wide range and internal unity of his many polymathic endeavors, placing him within the early Victorian intellectual landscape and highlighting his exchanges with other important figures of the period, such as John Herschel, Charles Lyell, and Robert Peel. Bringing together a group of eminent and emergent scholars, the volume explores all major aspects of Whewell’s reform project and its legacy, both in the sciences and the humanities, in the Victorian era and beyond.
Author |
: Lukas M. Verburgt |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2023-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350228856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350228850 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristotle's Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic by : Lukas M. Verburgt
Offering a bold new vision on the history of modern logic, Lukas M. Verburgt and Matteo Cosci focus on the lasting impact of Aristotle's syllogism between the 1820s and 1930s. For over two millennia, deductive logic was the syllogism and syllogism was the yardstick of sound human reasoning. During the 19th century, this hegemony fell apart and logicians, including Boole, Frege and Peirce, took deductive logic far beyond its Aristotelian borders. However, contrary to common wisdom, reflections on syllogism were also instrumental to the creation of new logical developments, such as first-order logic and early set theory. This volume presents the period under discussion as one of both tradition and innovation, both continuity and discontinuity. Modern logic broke away from the syllogistic tradition, but without Aristotle's syllogism, modern logic would not have been born. A vital follow up to The Aftermath of Syllogism, this book traces the longue durée history of syllogism from Richard Whately's revival of formal logic in the 1820s through the work of David Hilbert and the Göttingen school up to the 1930s. Bringing together a group of major international experts, it sheds crucial new light on the emergence of modern logic and the roots of analytic philosophy in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author |
: Lukas M. Verburgt |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2021-11-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030798291 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030798291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis John Venn: Unpublished Writings and Selected Correspondence by : Lukas M. Verburgt
This is the first book to present a carefully chosen and annotated selection of the unpublished writings and correspondence of the English logician John Venn (1834-1923). Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his name, Venn was an important figure of nineteenth-century Cambridge, where he worked alongside leading thinkers, such as Henry Sidgwick and Alfred Marshall, on the development of the Moral Sciences Tripos. Venn published three influential textbooks on logic, contributed some dozen articles to the then newly-established journal Mind, of which he became co-editor in 1892, and counted F.W. Maitland, William Cunningham and Arthur Balfour among his pupils. After his active career as a logician, which ended around the turn of the 20th century, Venn reinvented himself as a biographer of his University, College and family. Together with his son, he worked on the massive Alumni Cantabrigienses, which is still used today as a standard reference source. The material presented here, including the 100-page Annals: Autobiographical Sketch, provides much new information on Venn's philosophical development and Cambridge in the 1850s-60s. It also brings to light Venn's relation with famous colleagues and friends, such as Leslie Stephen, Francis Galton, and William Stanley Jevons, thereby placing him at the heart of Victorian intellectual life.
Author |
: Lukas M. Verburgt |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2022-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226815510 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022681551X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis John Venn by : Lukas M. Verburgt
Presents a biographical sketch of English logician and man of letters John Venn (1834-1923), compiled as part of the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. Notes that Venn compiled a history of Cambridge University.