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This text examines the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern era, highlighting how the fall of Constantinople and the invention of the printing press catalyzed a revival of classical learning. It traces the shift toward scientific inquiry through the rise of pure mathematics and astronomy, detailing the intellectual struggle against established scholastic and ecclesiastical authority.

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Applied Mathematics

THOMSON: Reprints of Papers of Electrostatics and Magnetism. By Sir William Thomson, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E. 8vo. $5.00.

THOMPSON: Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism. By Silvanus P. Thompson, D.Sc., B.A., F.R.A.S. New Edition. With Illustrations. 16mo. $1.25.

Notes to the same, by J. B. Murdock. 60 cents.

WALKER: How to Light a Colliery by Electricity. 4to. Limp. 75 cents.

Lighting by Electricity. (In the Press.)

WATSON and BURBURY: The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism. By H. W. Watson, D.Sc., F.R.S., and S. H. Burbury, M.A.

Vol. I. Electrostatics. 8vo. $2.75.

Vol. I. [][r] II. Magnetism and Electrodynamics. 8vo. $2.60.

HISTORICAL.

BALL: Works by Walter W. Rouse Ball.

Short Account of the History of Mathematics. 12mo. $2.60.

of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge. 12mo. $1.90.

BARROW: Mathematical Works. Edited by W. Whewell. $2.25.

CAYLEY (Arthur): The Collected Mathematical Papers of. To be completed in ten volumes. Vols. I.–VI. published. $5.50 each.

GOW: A Short History of Greek Mathematics. By J. Gow. 8vo. $3.00.

HEATH: Diophantos of Alexandria. A Study in the History of Greek Algebra. By T. L. Heath, B.A. 8vo. $2.25.

KLEIN: Lectures on Mathematics. The Evanston Colloquium. Reported by Alexander Ziwet. $1.50.

SMITH (Henry J. S.): Mathematical Papers. With Portrait and Memoir. 2 vols. (In the Press.)

WOOLWICH: Mathematical Papers. Edited by E. J. Brooksmith, B.A. $1.75.

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OF THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS. By WALTER W. ROUSE BALL, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge. Second Edition, Revised. $3.25.

"While technical and exact enough to be of value to the specialist in mathematics as a handy book of reference, it is so clearly and familiarly written, that it is the best work on this subject for the general reader

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