Europe

Web sites relevant to the History of Mathematics in Europe

• Joseph Dauben's hypermedia program The Art of Renaissance Science. See the Science and Engineering Television Network for mirror sites and more information. Included in the hypermedia program are discussions about Galileo and references to Brunelleschi, Alberti, Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, and Francis Bacon

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• The birthplace map in Mathematical MacTutor's History of Mathematics archive.

See Greece for mathematicians writing in Greek, and see the general chronology for European mathematicians after 1500.

Mathematicians through 1500

• Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.E.)
• Balbus (fl. c. 100 C.E.)
• Anicius Maulius Severinus Boethius (c. 480-524)
• Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (c. 490-c. 585)
• Bede (673-735)
• Alcuin of York (c. 735-804)
• Gerbert d'Aurillac, Pope Sylvester II (c. 945-1003)
• Adelard of Bath (1075-1164)
• John of Seville (c. 1125)
• Plato of Tivoli (c. 1125)
• Girard of Cremona (1114-1187)
• Robert of Chester (c. 1150)
• Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168-1253)
• Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) (1170-1240)
• Alexandre de Villedieu (c. 1225)
• John of Halifax (Sacrobosco) (c. 1200-1256)
• Campanus of Novara (c. 1205-1296)
• Girard of Brussels (c. 1235)
• Jordanus de Nemore (fl. 1230-1260)
• Wilhelm of Moerbeke (c. 1215-1286)
• Roger Bacon (c. 1219-1292)
• John Pecham (c. 1230-1292)
• Gerard of Brussels (c. 1250)
• Witelo (Vitellio) (fl. 1250-1275)
• John Duns Scotus (1266-1308)
• William of Ockham (c. 1280-c. 1349)
• Richard of Wallingford (1291-1336)
• Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1295-1349)
• Nicholas Rhabdas (d. 1350)
• Jean Buridan (c. 1300-1358)
• John of Meurs (Johannes de Muris) (c. 1343)
• Albert of Saxony (c. 1316-1390)
• Nicole Oresme (c. 1325-1382)
• John of Dumbleton (c. 1345)
• William of Heytesbury (d. c. 1373)
• Dominicus de Clavasio (c. 1346)
• Immanuel Bonfils (c. 1350)
• Giovanni di Casali (c. 1350)
• Richard Swineshead (Suiseth, Calculator) (c. 1350)
• Antonio de Mazzinghi (b. c. 1353)
• Paolo del Pozzo Toscanelli (1397-1482)
• Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464)
• Leone Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
• Piero della Francesca (c. 1410-1492)
• George Peurbach (1423-1461)
• Johannes Campanus (c. 1450)
• Johann Müller of Königsberg (Regiomontanus) (1436-1476)
• Luca Pacioli (c. 1445-c. 1514)
• Nicolas Chuquet (c. 1445-c. 1500)
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
• Johann Widman (b. c. 1460)
• Scipione del Ferro (c. 1465-1526)
• Johannes Werner (1468-1522)
• Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
• Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543)

Bibliography

• Butzer, P. L., and D. Lohmann.
  Science in Western and Eastern civilization in Carolingian times. Birkhauser, Boston, 1993.
• Crombie, A. C. (Alistair Cameron).
  Augustine to Galileo: the history of science, A.D. 400-1650. Falcon Press, London, 1952. Second edition entitled Medieval and early modern science. Two volumes. Doubleday, New York, 1959.
• Dales, Richard. The scientific achievement of the middle ages. Univ. Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1973.
• Grant, Edward, and John E. Murdoch, eds.
  Mathematics and its applications to science and natural philosophy in the Middle Ages: essays in honor of Marshall Clagett. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987.
• Knorr, Wilbur Richard. Textual studies in ancient and medieval geometry. Birkhauser, Boston, 1989. Review: Math. Rev. 91c:01008.
• Lindberg, David. The beginnings of Western science: 600 B.C. to 1450 A.D. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992.
• Parkinson, Claire L. Breakthroughs: a chronology of great achievements in science and mathematics, 1200-1930. G. K. Hall, Boston, 1985.
• Rose, Paul. The Italian renaissance of mathematics. Libraire Droz, Geneva, 1975.
• Sarton, George. Six wings: men of science in the renaissance. Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington, 1957.
• Stahl, William Harris Roman science: origins, development and influence to the late middle ages. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1962.
• Sullivan, J. W. N. The history of mathematics in Europe from the fall of Greek science to the rise of the conception of mathematical rigor. Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1925.
• Taton, René. La science antique et mediévale Presses Univ. France, 1957. Translated as Ancient and medieval science: from the beginning to 1450. by A. J. Pomerans. Basic Books, New York, 1963.
• Yeldham, F. A. The story of reconing in the middle ages. G. G. Harrap, London, 1926.

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