Descriptive geometry in England: lost in translation
Book chapter
Lawrence, S. 2019. Descriptive geometry in England: lost in translation. in: Barbin, É., Menghini, M. and Volkert, K. (ed.) Descriptive geometry, the spread of a polytechnic art: the legacy of Gaspard Monge Cham, Switzerland Springer. pp. 313-335
Chapter title | Descriptive geometry in England: lost in translation |
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Authors | Lawrence, S. |
Abstract | This chapter looks at the history of descriptive geometry in England, and why here it had such a short, and not a very fulfilling life. Having arrived to England in the immediate aftermath of the wars between England and France, its translation and attempts to introduce it into the educational system happened only after the 1840s. The lack of direct, implicit knowledge of the original technique, and some aspects of mistranslation, meant that the technique was never properly understood. Descriptive geometry is still mainly regarded as a drawing, rather than a mathematical technique in England, and has not been practised since the end of the nineteenth century. Polytechnic schools in England were another short-lived phenomena, and only of any significance and showing similarity with the French model in the second half of the twentieth century. |
Keywords | Descriptive geometry, Gaspard Monge, William Farish, Peter Nicholson, Orthographic projection, Isometric perspective, Parallel oblique projection, Curvilinear perspective |
Research Group | Mathematics, Education, Society, History |
Page range | 313-335 |
Book title | Descriptive geometry, the spread of a polytechnic art: the legacy of Gaspard Monge |
Editors | Barbin, É., Menghini, M. and Volkert, K. |
Publisher | Springer |
Place of publication | Cham, Switzerland |
Series | International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching (ISHMT) |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9783030148072 |
Electronic | 9783030148089 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 02 Jul 2019 |
25 Sep 2019 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 02 Apr 2020 |
Accepted | 25 Sep 2018 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an chapter published in Descriptive geometry, the spread of a polytechnic art: The legacy of Gaspard Monge. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14808-9_18 |
Additional information | Series ISSN: 2524-8022 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14808-9_18 |
Language | English |
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