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Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary
Author: Lady's and Gentleman's Diary
Author: The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary for the Year of Our Lord 1842
Author: The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary, for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: The Impact and Legacy of The Ladies’ Diary (1704–1840): A Women’s Declaration
Author: Frank J. SwetzPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1470462664
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The Ladies' Diary was an annual almanac published in England from 1704 to 1840. It was designed to provide useful information to women; the subtitle reveals the purpose, Containing New Improvements in Arts and Sciences, and Many Entertaining Particulars: Designed for the Use and Diversion of the Fair Sex. It contained meteorological and astronomical information, recipes, health and medical advice, scientific information, and mathematical puzzles and problems. Readers were encouraged to, and did, send solutions and original problems and puzzles of their own for publication in the next year's issue. Frank Swetz, one of the founding Editors of Convergence, the MAA's online journal of the history of mathematics, wondered about the historical and sociological conditions that supported The Ladies' Diary. In this volume he unearths the story of the Diary's creation and of the community of people surrounding it. We learn who the editors were and something about the contributors and readers. Swetz explores the sociological and cultural circumstances that made this unique almanac full of mathematics popular for over a century. As a dynamic forum for mathematics learning, teaching, and understanding, the Diary remains a milestone in the development of British mathematics.
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
Author: Catalogue of the Periodical Publications
Author: University College, London. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Symbols and Things
Author: Kevin LambertPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822988410
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depended on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industrialized paper and pen manufacture, railways and mail, and the print industries of the book, disciplinary journal, magazine, and newspaper. Though not always physically present with one another, the characters central to this book—from George Green to William Rowan Hamilton—relied heavily on communication technologies as they developed their theories in consort with colleagues. The letters they exchanged, together with the equations, diagrams, tables, or pictures that filled their manuscripts and publications, were all tangible traces of abstract ideas that extended mathematicians into their social and material environment. Each chapter of this book explores a thing, or assembling of things, mathematicians needed to do their work—whether a textbook, museum, journal, library, diagram, notebook, or letter—all characteristic of the mid-nineteenth-century British taskscape, but also representative of great change to a discipline brought about by an industrialized world in motion.
The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Iona ItaliaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134288360
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by both well-known and obscure writers. The book's central theme is the struggle of eighteenth-century journalists to attain literary respectability and the strategies by which editors sought to improve the literary and social status of their publications.
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