‘Secrets of Industry’ for ‘Common Men’
Charles de Bovelles and Early French Readerships of Technical Print
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20050832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard J Oosterhoff (0000-0001-5419-7644, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 207-229 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Translating Early Modern Science (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004349261_010 |
| OpenAlex | W2761556682 |
| ISBN | 9789004349261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Where Charles de Bovelles has a reputation at all, it is as a highly innovative philosopher in the intellectual mold of Nicolas of Cusa, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, or perhaps Giordano Bruno. 1 But beyond being possessed of a mathematical curiosity and turn of imagination, the Picard canon was also deeply invested in the early sixteenth-century efforts to rework French as a language with a distinctive cultural heritage. 2He experimented with arithmetical and geometrical theory in French and wrote studies of the language itself, such as a collection of French proverbs and a short study of French's origins, via the ancient Druids, in Greek-like many other such theorists, he composed these theoretical studies of the vernacular in Latin
Art · Art history · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |