Conic sections and their constructions

1963 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 443-446
Author(s):  
M. Annunciata Burbach
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Conic Sections ◽  
Great Simplicity

Conic sections are curves of great simplicity. Just as simplicity is indicative of great worth in human endeavors, these curves are of tremendous value to mathematicians, engineers, navigators, architects, astronomers, and physicists. The extensive usefulness of conic sections, which remained totally dormant for centuries, has been unfolded to us by scientists since the beginning of the seventeenth century.

Treatise on Conic Sections

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Apollonius of Perga
Keyword(s):  
Conic Sections

Salivary Conditioning in the Seventeenth Century.

1963 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century

The Conic Sections

1891 ◽  
Vol 31 (803supp) ◽  
pp. 12836-12837
Author(s):  
C. W. MacCord
Keyword(s):  
Conic Sections

Transmission of Renaissance herbal images to China: the Beitang copy of Mattioli’s commentaries on Dioscorides and its annotations

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-253
Author(s):  
Wu Huiyi ◽  
Zheng Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
National Library ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Northern Chinese ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
Animal Names ◽  
National Library Of China ◽  
Made In

The Beitang Collection, heritage of a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit library in Beijing now housed in the National Library of China, contains an incomplete copy of Pietro Andrea Mattioli’s commentary on an Italian edition of Pedanius Dioscorides's De materia medica (1568) bearing extensive annotations in Chinese. Two hundred odd plant and animal names in a northern Chinese patois were recorded alongside illustrations, creating a rare record of seventeenth-century Chinese folk knowledge and of Sino-Western interaction in the field of natural history. Based on close analysis of the annotations and other contemporary sources, we argue that the annotations were probably made in Beijing by one or more Chinese low-level literati and Jesuit missionaries during the first two decades of the seventeenth century. We also conclude that the annotations were most likely directed at a Chinese audience, to whom the Jesuits intended to illustrate European craftsmanship using Mattioli’s images. This document probably constitutes the earliest known evidence of Jesuits' attempts at transmitting the art of European natural history drawings to China.

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