Encyclopedias as Markers of Heritage Building: Fluxion Articles in British Encyclopaedias, 1704-1850
If we consider heritage as a process of exhibiting the past and the present to present these for future observers then encyclopedias are good candidates for assessing what constitutes heritage. We propose to study the Fluxion entries in British encyclopaedias over a long period of time (1704-1860)....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Éditions Kimé
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Philosophia Scientiæ |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/3483 |
| Summary: | If we consider heritage as a process of exhibiting the past and the present to present these for future observers then encyclopedias are good candidates for assessing what constitutes heritage. We propose to study the Fluxion entries in British encyclopaedias over a long period of time (1704-1860). With the help of this corpus of more than thirty articles, it will then be possible to identify several markers that contribute to making mathematics a heritage object—a reference to history, sources of inspiration and bibliographical references. |
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| ISSN: | 1281-2463 1775-4283 |