The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826.

1996 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 672
Author(s):  
Jack N. Rakove ◽  
James Morton Smith
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
James Madison ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
The Republic

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Oosterhoff
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Moment

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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