Group Event 11754

* Note Special Day

We discussed two papers by Richard Oosterhoff (University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities [CRASSH]) on Renaissance practices of reading and advancing knowledge claims in mathematical and astronomical texts.

1) "A Book, a Pen, and the Sphere: Reading Sacrobosco in the Renaissance,"
History of Universities 28, no. 2 (2015): 1–54.

2) "Idiotae, Mathematics and Artisans: The Untutored Mind and the Discovery of
Nature in the Fabrist Circle," Intellectual History Review 24 (2014): 1–19.