BLUNDEVILLE Thomas.

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.A handsome copy of this most interesting work in fine contemporary calf, the third edition. .Thomas Blundeville (c. 1522 . c. 1606) was an English humanist writer and mathematician. He is known for work on logic, astronomy, education and horsemanship, as well as for translations from the Italian; he freely adapted a number of the works he translated. Born in Norfolk, Blundeville has been comparatively ignored by historians of science and technology: he seems to have been educated at Cambridge : Later he is associated with Gresham college and the group that included Henry Briggs, .. William Gilbert, .. Edward Wright, and William Barlow, the later two both instrument makers who wrote on navigation. Along with his contemporaries at Gresham, Blundeville was one of several mathematical practitioners .. who often took up residence in London as they sought to make a living either through commercial publication, private instruction, patronage, consultation on state sponsored projects, or instrument making. Blundeville demonstrates considerably broader range that other practitioners of the period, however, and in this he is somewhat atypical of technical writers. ..The increasing conceptual proximity between practical and productive modes of knowledge and the growing extension of deliberative thinking that we find in Harvey .. is also visible in other sixteenth -century dialectic textbooks, particularly those written in the vernacular such as Thomas Blundeville s Arte of Logicke . Bl

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