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[ursula]

Age of Sail alert: I'm cataloguing a book for work called Beyond the learned academy—the practice of mathematics, 1600–1850, and it has multiple chapters about what sorts of mathematics members of the navy were supposed to know to pass their exams.

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[yhlee]

:SITS BOLT UPRIGHT:

YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION

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[yhlee]

:happy gasp: I saw it going for $20 in hardcover, SNURCH.

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[ursula]

Yeah, it's startlingly affordable for an academic history book! And there's some stuff about math for army officers, too.

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[yhlee]

I was wildly and pleasantly surprised given that I have been in the hellscape of $100+ academic musicology and film studies books for my current program lolsob. (No, I did not buy them all. In some cases I was able to get library access. But still.)

[landofnowhere]

Cool! I'll look into it.

In college I wrote a term paper for a class on history of the book where I compared two books in the rare books library that were editions of Euclid's Elements from about 1700. One of them was translated/edited by a mathematical practictioner, Reeve Williams (working from Claude Deschales' French translation), who taught at the Virginia Coffee-House, and was dedicated to Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Navy.

[ursula]

Cool! That sounds like an awesome class.

[fred_mouse]

Oh, that sounds interesting. I am going to resist attempting to find a copy, I already have too many math books unread (there was a Very Large Discount on some Donald Knuth collected essays a few years back, and the writing is dense, so I think I've done a chapter a year).

[flamingsword]

You sounded interesting on sabotabby’s podcast, so I checked out your website, which led me to your Ravelry page that led here. Hi!

I am also thinking of making those good looking brioche stitch fingerless gloves! Do you think they’d do okay in contrasting tonal yarns? Bc I’m trying to get rid of more yarn than I buy, but it’s difficult when there are so many interesting patterns that I want to try and they’re in all different yarn weights. 😅

[ursula]

Oh, cool, hi!

A different combination of colors would definitely work. Brioche thrives on high contrast, though! If you have sock-weight either black or white/cream this is a good time to use it up.