-
first anglicized and used in the
magical sense in John Dee's book The
Mathematicall Praeface to
Elements of
Geometrie of
Euclid of
Megara (1570). He mentions...
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comments in the work
suggest that he was also
familiar with Dee’s "
Mathematicall Praeface" to Billingsley’s
translation of Euclid’s
Elements of Geometrie...
-
philosophers decided to
commence a "Colledge for the
Promoting of Physico-
Mathematicall Experimentall Learning".
Amongst those founders were
Christopher Wren...
- the
collected works known as
Mysteriorum libri quinque John Dee, The
Mathematicall Praeface to the
Elements of
Geometrie of
Euclid of
Megara (1570). New...
- converse. In 1662, they
proposed a
society "for the
promotion of Physico-
Mathematicall Experimental Learning". This body
received its
Royal Charter from Charles...
-
insimulations of
Richard Delamain, in a
pamphlet called Grammelogia, or the
Mathematicall Ring, or
Mirifica Logarithmorum Projectio Circularis (A. Mathewes, London...
- by Wren and
resolve to
found "a
College for the
Promoting of Physico-
Mathematicall Experimentall Learning",
which will
become the
Royal Society. John Ray...
- {{cite book}}: CS1 maint:
location missing publisher (link) John Dee, '
Mathematicall Praeface', in Euclid, The
Elements of Geometrie, trans. H. Billingsley...
- John Dee
wrote A very
fruitfull Preface ...
specifying the
chiefe Mathematicall Scieces, etc. in
which he
defined "zographie" as a
mathematical art...
- knowe. Of
speciall vse and
delight not
onely for
Students of the Arts
Mathematicall, but also for
diuers Artificers, Architects,
Surueyours of buildings...
