‘Secrets of Industry’ for ‘Common Men’: Charles de Bovelles and Early French Readerships of Technical Print
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2017Journal Title
Translating Early Modern Science
ISBN
9789004349254
Publisher
Brill
Volume
51
Number
8
Pages
207-229
Type
Book chapter
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Oosterhoff, R. (2017). ‘Secrets of Industry’ for ‘Common Men’: Charles de Bovelles and Early French Readerships of Technical Print. Brill, Translating Early Modern Science. [Book chapter]. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004349261_010
Abstract
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. 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. He experimented with arithmetical and geometrical theory in French, as well as works on 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.
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European Research Council (617391)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004349261_010
This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.27377
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