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SUMMARY:Engineering and mathematics in the late 16th century (2/8) - Piers
  Bursill-Hall\, DPMMS
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CONTACT:piers bursill-hall
DESCRIPTION:As mathematicians (as distinct from those who taught classical
  Greek geometry\, who usually were part of the philosophy teaching at Rena
 issance universities) were able to extend their Archimidean and practical 
 geometry to more and more engineering\, there ambitions were bolstered by 
 an argument amongst natural philosophers that mathematics was the supreme 
 _empirical_ science. In the last decades of the 16th century and the first
  decade of the 17th century the distinctions between what we would call ma
 thematics\, physics\, and engineering were becoming more blurred - which l
 eft ample room for new ideas to seep through the interstices. Enter Galile
 o. (2/8)
LOCATION:CMS MR 14\, Monday 15 October 4 pm
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