Angela Axworthy was awarded a PhD in philosophy in 2011 (C.E.S.R., Tours, France) with a dissertation on the epistemology of mathematics in the thought of the sixteenth-century French mathematician Oronce Fine, for which she received in 2012 the doctoral dissertation prize of the French Society of History of Sciences and Techniques (S.F.H.S.T.). She was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2012–2016) and, in the framework of the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge, at the Technische Universität Berlin (2017–2018). She is currently a Gerda Henkel Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow, as well as a visiting scholar at the Department I of the MPIWG. Her research focuses on Renaissance epistemology of mathematics in its diverse aspects, among them medieval and Renaissance geocentric cosmology, sixteenth-century practical geometry, and the early modern Euclidean tradition. She is the author of Le Mathématicien renaissant et son savoir. Le statut des mathématiques selon Oronce Fine (Paris, Classique Garnier, 2016). Her forthcoming book, to be published with Birkhäuser, is entitled Motion and Genetic Definitions in the Sixteenth-century Euclidean Tradition.
Projekte
Making Euclid Practical: The Impact of Practical Geometry on the Euclidean Tradition in the Sixteenth Century
The Status of Practical Geometry and Its Relations to Theoretical and Applied Geometrical Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Treatises of Practical Geometry
The Transmission of Cosmological Conceptions in the Paduan Sacrobosco Tradition from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Century
The Commentaries on Sacrobosco’s Sphaera by Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi and Bartolomeo Vespucci (1531)
Selected Publications
Axworthy, Angela (2016). Le mathématicien renaissant et son savoir : le statut des mathématiques selon Oronce Fine. Histoire et philosophie des sciences 11. Paris: Classiques Garnier.
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Axworthy, Angela (2018). “The Debate between Peletier and Clavius on Superposition.” Historia Mathematica 45 (1): 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2017.09.004.
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Axworthy, Angela (2017). “La notion géométrique de flux du point à la Renaissance et dans le commentaire des Éléments de Jacques Peletier du Mans.” In Miroir de l’amitié : mélanges offerts à Joël Biard à l’occasion de ses 65 ans, ed. C. Grellard , 453–464. Paris: Vrin.
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Axworthy, Angela (2017). “Early Modern Cosmological Debates. Review of: Granada, Miguel Á., Patrick J. Boner and Dario Tessicini (Eds.) Unifying Heaven and Earth: Essays in the History of Early Modern Cosmology. Barcelona: Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona 2016.” Journal for the History of Astronomy 48 (4): 489–491. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828617724895.
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Axworthy, Angela (2013). “The ontological status of geometrical objects in the commentary on the Elements of Euclid of Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517-1582).” FMSH-WP 41: 1–19.
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Axworthy, Angela (2009). “The epistemological foundations of the propaedeutic status of mathematics according to the epistolary and prefatory writings of Oronce Fine.” In The worlds of Oronce Fine : mathematics, instruments, and print in Renaissance France, 31–51. Donington: Shaun Tyas.
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Past Events
Workshop
Euclid on the Road. Cross-Cultural Transmission, Translation, and Transformation of the Elements
MORELecture
- Institute Event
The Intrinsic Place. Space as a Measurable Entity in Early Modern Art and Science
MOREPredoc Konferenz
- Institute Event
Land Ahoy!
MOREKonferenz
Geometry and Mechanics
MOREKolloquium
Renaissance Interpretations of the Geometrical Notion of “Rhusis”
MORESommerkolloquium
The Purpose, Modalities and Limits of the Admission of Movement in the Definition and Study of Geometrical Objects in the Sixteenth-century Euclidean Tradition: Oronce Fine, Jacques Peletier and Christoph Clavius
MOREPresentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
Workshop: Euclid on the Road. Cross-cultural transmission, translation and transformationof the Elements, SPHere (CNRS), MPIWG, Berlin
European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference 2018, in conjunction with the British Society for the History of Science
Oberseminar in history of mathematics, University of Wuppertal
Hauptseminar in History of Science Department, Technische Universität, Berlin
Workshop: The Authors of the Early Modern Commentaries on De sphaera, MPIWG, Berlin
HU, Berlin
MPIWG, Berlin
Université Bordeaux-Montaigne
Ghent, Belgium
MPIWG, Berlin
HEST, Limoges
MPIWG, Berlin
SPHERE (CNRS), Paris