Some Lesser-Known Figures

Leo Corry

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-11538-7_3

Some Lesser-Known Figures

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The present chapter discusses works in the British Euclidean tradition written by somewhat lesser-known and less influential mathematicians, such as John Leeke and George Serle, Reeve Williams and William Halifax (both of published translations of a version of the Elements by the French Jesuit Claude Dechales), William Alingham and Henry Hill. A final section discusses additional English versions of the Euclidean corpus published at the turn of the eighteenth century by John Keill, William Whiston and Robert Simson. By this time the variety of approaches in that corpus to the relationship between geometric, arithmetic, and algebraic ideas did not yet converge into a single accepted approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	49-63
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11538-7_3
State	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes

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Name	SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
ISSN (Print)	2211-4564
ISSN (Electronic)	2211-4572

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Keywords

British mathematics
Claude Dechales
Euclidean tradition
Euclid’s Book II
Euclid’s Elements
George Serle
Henry Hill
John Keill
John Leeke
Reeve Williams
Renaissance mathematics
Robert Simson
William Alingham
William Halifax
William Whiston

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