The exact sciences in Lutheran Germany and Tudor England
Barker, Peter (Contributor), Tredwell, Katherine Anne (Creator)
The final chapters shift focus to England, where a revival of mathematical education was underway by mid-century. In this section, astronomy is defined broadly to include astronomical navigation, since the potential economic and political benefits of undertaking voyages of discovery provided part of the justification for mathematical studies. Elizabethan authors frequently cited and even translated Lutheran works, suggesting that Lutheran influence played an important role in the English mathematical renaissance. Most readers turned to Lutheran sources for technical guidance, in part because Melanchthon's followers had produced the leading works on Copernican astronomy. A smaller group, including some of the leading Tudor mathematicians, also adopted Melanchthon's providential reading of astronomy. Thus, English mathematical practitioners were not intellectually isolated, but form part of a continuous tradition that began in Wittenberg
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