ABSTRACT

The term matheſis applicata appeared in an academic mathematics textbook for the first time in the 18th cen­tury, a period where mathematical disciplines started to strongly diversify and mathematics was systematically used espe­cially to form cameralistic sciences. Not only practitioners, but also genuine mathematici participated in the literary genesis of these new disciplines and sciences. The talk will exemplarily show what concrete mathe­ma­tical content scholars contributed to the mine-surveying literature by presenting selected results of the Renaissance and the Early Enlightenment from a broader mathematical-historical-bibliographical lon­gitudinal analysis.

 

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