Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College : studies in the intellectual history of London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hampshire ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, c1999. |
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| Description: | xxi, 234 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3859615 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Francis Ames-Lewis
- Reconstructing London: Sir Thomas Gresham and Bishopsgate
- Sir Thomas and the 'House of Gresham': activities of a mercer-merchant adventurer
- Citizen and mercer: Sir Thomas Gresham and the social and political world of the city of London
- Failed transmission: Sir Thomas Gresham, reproduction, and the background to Gresham's professorship of physic
- Early insurance in and around the Royal Exchange
- Sculpture at the Royal Exchange in the seventeenth century
- Civic rhetoric, 1560-1640
- Plato in the Tudor academies
- Testimonia humanitatis: the early lectures of Henry Savile
- 'No small force': natural philosophy and mathematics in Thomas Gresham's London
- Gresham College and London practitioners: the nature of the English mathematical community
- Christopher Wren's Greshamite history of astronomy and geometry
- Why translate Serlio?
- Index