The Hybridization of Practical and Theoretical Geometry in the 
Sixteenth-Century Euclidean Tradition

Axworthy, Angela

doi:10.13135/2280-8574/7333

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The Hybridization of Practical and Theoretical Geometry in the Sixteenth-Century Euclidean Tradition

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Axworthy, Angela
Department Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Max Planck Society;

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Axworthy, A. (2023). The Hybridization of Practical and Theoretical Geometry in the Sixteenth-Century Euclidean Tradition. Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 11(22): 4, pp. 4:1-4:104. doi:10.13135/2280-8574/7333.

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This article aims to show how, in the sixteenth century, Euclidean geometry, which was regarded as the epitome of theoretical geometry in the middle ages and in the Renaissance, was to take up, within certain printed commentaries and translations of Euclid’s Elements, features that were typical of practical geometry and how this contributed to the development of an approach to geometry, and also to a representation of geometry, that may be regarded as a hybrid of theoretical and
practical geometry within the Euclidean context.