Author: John McGregor (teacher of mathematics.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A Complete Treatise on Practical Mathematics
Author: John McGregor (teacher of mathematics.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A complete treatise on Practical Mathematics ... With an appendix on Algebra
Author: John MACGREGOR (Teacher of Mathematics.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A Complete Treatise on Practical Arithmetic and Book-keeping
Author: Charles HuttonA complete treatise on practical arithmetic and book-keeping ... Revised by Dr. Olinthus Gregory ... To which is added an appendix ... Nineteenth edition, corrected and enlarged, with a supplement ... by Samuel Maynard
Author: Charles HuttonAn elementary course of practical mathematics
Author: James ElliotAn elementary course of practical mathematics. Key
Author: James ElliotAn elementary course of practical mathematics
Author: James ELLIOT (Mathematician)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Key to the Elementary Course of Practical Mathematics, Containing Demonstrations of the Rules, and Full Or Concise Solutions of Most of the Exercises in the Course
Author: James Elliot (Mathematician.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia; To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution, With The Charter Laws And Regulations
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proprietary libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Media and the Mind
Author: Matthew Daniel EddyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226820750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind. We often think of reason as a fixed entity, as a definitive body of facts that do not change over time. But during the Enlightenment, reason also was seen as a process, as a set of skills enacted on a daily basis. How, why, and where were these skills learned? Concentrating on Scottish students living during the long eighteenth century, this book argues that notebooks were paper machines and that notekeeping was a capability-building exercise that enabled young notekeepers to mobilize everyday handwritten and printed forms of material and visual media in a way that empowered them to judge and enact the enlightened principles they encountered in the classroom. Covering a rich selection of material ranging from simple scribbles to intricate watercolor diagrams, the book reinterprets John Locke’s comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa. Although one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment, scholars seldom consider why it was so successful for those who used it. Each chapter uses one core notekeeping skill to reveal the fascinating world of material culture that enabled students in the arts, sciences, and humanities to transform the tabula rasa metaphor into a dynamic cognitive model. Starting in the home, moving to schools, and ending with universities, the book reconstructs the relationship between media and the mind from the bottom up. It reveals that the cognitive skills required to make and use notebooks were not simply aids to reason; rather, they were part of reason itself.