Screen LibraryGeometrical landscapes：the voyages of discovery and the transformation of mathematical practice
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Stanford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Stanford, Calif. |
| Publication Dates: | c2002. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Writing science ; 1 |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 293 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0804732604 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | O11 |
| CLC: | O11 |
| Call Number: | O11/A374 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index. Prologue: the origins of the exploration narrative -- Breaking alien coastlines -- Mathematical empires -- Seeing the truth: Hariot and the structure of matter -- "The club of Hercules": Hariot's mathematical atomism -- Navigating mathematical oceans. |