Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
Mathematics and the Medici: Instruments from Late Renaissance Florence and a British Connection
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The 16th-century instruments in the Museum of the History of Science in Florence provide one of the most attractive records of contemporary mathematics, significant for having been formed in the period, rather than assembled later by a museum or a collector. This lecture presents the results of cataloguing these instruments.
This lecture was jointly held with the British Society for the History of Mathematics.
This lecture was jointly held with the British Society for the History of Mathematics.