Abstract
Publié il y a un demi-millénaire, l’ouvrage de Cuthbert Tunstall De arte supputandi libri quatuor (Quatre livres sur l’art de compter) est le premier livre de mathématiques imprimé en Angleterre. Auguste De Morgan décrivait ce manuel de mathématiques commerciales comme « le plus classique qui ait jamais été écrit sur ce sujet en latin ».
Now half-a-millennium old, Cuthbert Tunstall’s 1522 work De arte supputandi libri quattuor (Four books on the art of reckoning) is the first mathematical book printed in England. Augustus De Morgan described this guide to mercantile mathematics as “the most classical which was ever written on the subject in Latin”.
Now half-a-millennium old, Cuthbert Tunstall’s 1522 work De arte supputandi libri quattuor (Four books on the art of reckoning) is the first mathematical book printed in England. Augustus De Morgan described this guide to mercantile mathematics as “the most classical which was ever written on the subject in Latin”.
| Translated title of the contribution | Practical mathematics and Latin eloquence: De arte supputandi, the first mathematics book printed in England |
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| Original language | French |
| Pages | 177-193 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Specialist publication | Images des Mathématiques |
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| Publication status | Published - 11 Sept 2023 |