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Description of  Rethinking Stevin, Stevin Rethinking Constructions of a Dutch Polymath (Nuncius, 6)

9004432906 pdf This book studies the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620) as a new type of man of knowledge. Stevin exemplifies a wider trend of polymathy in the early modern period. Polymaths played a crucial role in the transformation of European learning.