SIR THOMAS GRESHAM AND GRESHAM COLLEGE by Francis Ames-Lewis (Editor) ( 9781840146417 )

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SIR THOMAS GRESHAM AND GRESHAM COLLEGE
STUDIES IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF LONDON IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

By:

Francis Ames-Lewis (Editor)

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1840146419

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9781840146417

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 January, 1999

Pages:

272

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The first set of papers in this collection consider Gresham's career. The second set examine Gresham College's academic activities and the third set consider how Gresham professors contributed to the likes of geometry and astronomy.

Synopsis:

In March 1997 the Society for Renaissance Studies and Gresham College together organised a conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College's foundation. The papers delivered at that conference and assembled in this book examine why Gresham College was established, and how its purposes and activities dovetailed with the socio-cultural life of Elizabethan and Stuart London. The first group of papers considers the social and mercantile career of Sir Thomas Gresham within the commercial centre of Elizabethan London; why he wished to establish Gresham College; and what functions he may have intended it to serve. The second group sets the academic activities of the College and its professors within the broader context of contemporary intellectual life. Papers in this group consider in what ways early Gresham professors contributed in particular to developments in the more practical disciplines such as geometry and astronomy.

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Includes 34 b&w illustrations

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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