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Scientific and Mathematical Instruments in the Early Modern Period
Anybody who has been following this series will be aware that in England in the Early Modern Period, mathematical and scientific instruments played a central role in the world of practical...
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The century and a half search by the British authorities–from the founding of...
Back in 2010 the University of Cambridge and the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich launched a six year research programme, led by Simon Schaffer for Cambridge and Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt...
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The Prince and his mathematical practitioners
Henry Frederick Stuart eldest son of James VI of Scotland (1566–1625) and Anne of Denmark (1574–161), heir apparent to the throne of Scotland was born in Stirling Castle in 1594. Her was named after...
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England’s first printed-globe maker
The Earth is a sphere, or more precisely it’s an oblate spheroid, that is it is flattened at the poles and has a bulge at the equator. However, the deviations from a true sphere are minimal so, it can...
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He inherited Richard Hakluyt’s life’s work.
As I have pointed out is a couple of earlier posts the work carried out by mathematical practitioners in England in the last third of the sixteenth century and on into the seventeenth into navigation...
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Charles Whitwell – A credit to his master
Some time back I wrote about the engraver and instrument maker Augustine Ryther (fl. 1576–1593), who stood at the beginning of a dynasty of instrument makers in the Worshipful Company of Grocers. More...
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The Welsh instrument maker who didn’t fit the contemporary mould.
In the last post in this series, we took an in depth look at the career of the English mariner Sir Robert Dudley (1574–1649). This ended with an account of the scientific instruments that he left...
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The English aristocratic bastard, who advised the Florentines on matters...
For historians of Tudor England, the name Robert Dudley immediately evokes the image of the 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588), companion to Edward VI, condemned to death by Mary Tudor for his part in...
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A Promoter of Empire
When European sailing ships set out to traverse the world’s oceans in the Early Modern Period, they set out on endeavours that were both extremely costly and ladened with immense risks. Let us just...
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From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLII
As already mentioned, in the last episode in this series, mathematics did not in general play a significant role in the medieval, European universities. At best lip service was paid to the...
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The Cosmographical Glasse
Cosmographia is a compositor of the words cosmos and graphia, whereby cosmos is the Latin form of the Greek kosmos meaning world or universe and graphia, which is derived from graphos which means...
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An engraver and instrument maker, who founded a dynasty
We have seen how the Netherlander Thomas Gemini (c.1510–1562) and the English man Humfrey Cole (c. 1530–1591) established the profession of scientific or mathematical instrument maker in England...
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A ENGLISH MAN BORN IN Y NORTH
GRAVEN BI HUMFRAY COLE GOLDSMITH A ENGLISH MAN BORN IN Y NORTH AND PEARTAYNING TO YE MINT IN THE TOWER. 1572 Despite the fact that he held an important position at the Royal Mint in the Tower of...
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A gentleman of Kent
With Robert Recorde (c. 1510–1558) and John Dee (1527–c. 1608), we have already looked at two mathematical practitioners, who were among the first to publish mathematical texts in the vernacular in...
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The Man from Wales who founded the English School of Mathematics
The English School of Mathematics is not some sort of institution that exists or existed in the real world but an artificial construct used by historians of mathematics to collectively describe the...
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John Dee navigational advisor
After our longer discourse on the history of magnetic variation, we return today to the history of navigation in England during the second half of the sixteenth century. John Dee (1527–c. 1608) was a...
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Magnetic Variations – X Mapping the variation
Over this series we have tracked the discovery of magnetic variation and the gradual realisation that it was a real phenomenon and not just a malfunction of badly made or adjusted compasses. This...
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Magnetic Variations – IX It varies over time!
In this mini-series of blog posts we have followed the history of the English investigators of and writers on the phenomenon of declination or variation of the magnetic compass. Magnetic variation is...
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Magnetic Variations – VIII Magnetists at War
In the years following the publication of De Magnete in 1600 and the death of William Gilbert in 1603 a dispute developed between two leading English magnetists, William Barlow (1544 – 1625) and Dr...
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Magnetic Variations – VII One author, two authors, three authors, more
William Gilbert’s De Magnete is a book that covers a wide range of information on all aspects of magnetism, loadstones, magnets, and the magnetic compasses. He was a high ranking physician living in...
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