Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College
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Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College

Studies in the Intellectual History of London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College

Studies in the Intellectual History of London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

About this book

In March 1997 the Society for Renaissance Studies and Gresham College together organised a conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College's foundation. The papers delivered at that conference and assembled in this book examine why Gresham College was established, and how its purposes and activities dovetailed with the socio-cultural life of Elizabethan and Stuart London. The first group of papers considers the social and mercantile career of Sir Thomas Gresham within the commercial centre of Elizabethan London; why he wished to establish Gresham College; and what functions he may have intended it to serve. The second group sets the academic activities of the College and its professors within the broader context of contemporary intellectual life. Papers in this group consider in what ways early Gresham professors contributed in particular to developments in the more practical disciplines such as geometry and astronomy.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781351899925
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Reconstructing London: Sir Thomas Gresham and Bishopsgate
  10. 2. Sir Thomas and the ‘House of Gresham’: activities of a mercer-merchant adventurer
  11. 3. Citizen and mercer: Sir Thomas Gresham and the social and political world of the city of London
  12. 4. Failed transmission: Sir Thomas Gresham, reproduction, and the background to Gresham’s professorship of physic
  13. 5. Early insurance in and around the Royal Exchange
  14. 6. Sculpture at the Royal Exchange in the seventeenth century
  15. 7. Civic rhetoric, 1560-1640 88
  16. 8. Plato in the Tudor academies
  17. 9. Testimonia humanitatis: the early lectures of Henry Savile
  18. 10. ‘No small force’: natural philosophy and mathematics in Thomas Gresham’s London
  19. 11. Gresham College and London practitioners: the nature of the English mathematical community
  20. 12. Christopher Wren’s Greshamite history of astronomy and geometry
  21. 13. Why translate Serlio?
  22. Index