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Beating untrodden paths: James Gregory and his Italian readers

SYSNO ASEP	0525026
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Beating untrodden paths: James Gregory and his Italian readers
Author(s)	Crippa, Davide (FLU-F)_{ORCID, RID, SAI}
Source Title	British Journal for the History of Mathematics. - : Taylor & Francis - ISSN 2637-5451 Roč. 35, č. 1 (2020), s. 25-42
Number of pages	18 s.
Publication form	Print - P
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	history of mathematics ; scientific academies ; James Gregory ; Stephano degli Angeli
Subject RIV	AA - Philosophy ; Religion
OECD category	Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
R&D Projects	GJ19-03125Y GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
Method of publishing	Limited access
Institutional support	FLU-F - RVO:67985955
UT WOS	000619263600003
EID SCOPUS	85076914283
DOI	10.1080/26375451.2019.1701860
Annotation	In this paper, I shall reconstruct the stay in Italy of James Gregory (1638–1675), Regius professor of mathematics at St Andrews. According to a standard account, Gregory spent four years (1664–1668) in Padua, as Stephano degli Angeli’s student. However, this claim is problematic. First, Gregory’s stay in Padua is confirmed only for the years 1667–1668. Second, the existence of a partial scribal copy of Vera quadratura circuli, ellipseos et hyperbolae in sua propria specie inventa et demonstrata, Gregory’s debut work in the domain of quadrature problems, as well as a number of letters preserved at the National Library of Florence, suggest that relations between Gregory and Italian mathematicians were more complex and varied than have been suspected. On the basis of new, albeit scarce, textual evidence, I shall advance a few conjectures regarding scholars and philosophers that Gregory could have met in Padua, Rome and perhaps Florence.
Workplace	Institute of Philosophy
Contact	Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360
Year of Publishing	2022
Electronic address	https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2019.1701860

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