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Why should mathematics, the purest of sciences, have a history? Medieval mathematicians took little interest in the history of their discipline. Yet in the Renaissance the history of mathematics flourished. This book explores how Renaissance scholars recovered and reconstructed the origins of mathematics by tracing its invention in prehistoric Antiquity, its development by the Greeks, and its transmission to modern Europe via the works of Euclid, Theon and Proclus. The principal architects of this story -- the French philosopher and University of Paris reformer Peter Ramus, and his critic, the young Oxford astronomy lecturer Henry Savile - worked out diametrically opposed models for the development of the mathematical arts, models of historical progress and decline which mirrored each scholar's larger convictions about the nature of mathematical thinking, the purpose of the modern university, and the potential of the human mind. In their hands, the obscure story of mathematical history became a site of contention over some of the most pressing philosophical and pedagogical debates of the sixteenth century.

Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Mathematics, general. --- Classical Studies. --- Philosophy (General). --- Science --- Mathematics. --- Humanities. --- Sciences --- Mathématiques --- Sciences humaines --- Philosophie --- Mathematics --- Math --- History&delete& --- Historiography --- Ramus, Petrus, --- Savile, Henry, --- De La Ramée, Pierre, --- La Ramée, Pierre de, --- Ramée, Pierre de La, --- Ramo, Pedro, --- Ramo, Pietro, --- Ramus, P. --- Ramus, Pʹer, --- Ramus, Peter, --- ראאמוס, --- Savilius, Henricus, --- History

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Ptolemy was the most important physical scientist of the Roman Empire, and for a millennium and a half his writings on astronomy, astrology, and geography were models for imitation, resources for new work, and targets of criticism. Ptolemy in Perspective traces reactions to Ptolemy from his own times to ours. The nine studies show the complex processes by which an ancient scientist and his work gained and subsequently lost an overreaching reputation and authority.

Ptolemy, 2nd cent. --- Science -- History. --- Science, Ancient. --- Science, Ancient --- History & Archaeology --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- History - General --- Sciences - General --- History --- Astronomy, Ancient. --- Ptolemy, --- History and criticism. --- Ancient astronomy --- Baṭlamyūs, --- Ptholomeus, --- Ptolemaeus, Claudius, --- Ptolemaios, Klaudios, --- Ptolemaus, Claudius, --- Ptolémée, Claude, --- Ptolemeĭ, Klavdiĭ, --- Ptolemy, Claudius, --- Tolemeo, Claudio, --- Tolomeo, Claudio, --- بطليموس --- بطلميوس --- History. --- Philology. --- Geographical information systems. --- Observations, Astronomical. --- Astronomy --- History of Science. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Classical Studies. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- History, general. --- Observations. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Geography --- Science --- Ptolémée --- Tolomeo, Claudio --- Astronomy—Observations. --- Astronomical observations --- Observations, Astronomical