Maligned for mathematics: Sir Thomas Urquhart and his Trissotetras.
Thomas Urquhart (1611–1660), celebrated for his English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua et Pantagruel, has earned some notoriety for his eccentric, putatively incomprehensible early book on trigonometry The Trissotetras (1645). The Trissotetras was too impractical to succeed in its own day as a t...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. 113 - 157 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2019
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