The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826. Volume One: 1776-1790; Volume Two: 1790-1804; Volume Three: 1804-1836.

1996 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 568
Author(s):  
Lance Banning ◽  
James Morton Smith
Author(s):  
Richard Oosterhoff

The moment unfolded in this book unravelled in the following decades, partly because its students moved on, partly because Lefèvre took up a controversial role in the French Reformation. But his circle’s books continued to cultivate a particular approach to learning, and especially to the cultural place of mathematics, through the sixteenth century. This epilogue picks out a specialist strand of this influence in Lefèvre’s edition of Euclid, often reprinted and used in the republic of letters. A second strand is discernible in the pragmatic stance towards the utility of mathematics held by their heirs, Oronce Fine and Peter Ramus, which came to define European culture.


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