Lecture 4

Question 1

Enlightenment

Answer 1

Johan de Witt 1625-1672
More geométrico ?

Nicolas Struyck 1687-1769
Willem Kersseboom 1691-1771
Cóndorcet 1743-1794
Political thinking = Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790

Question 2

Second Industrial Revolution

Answer 2

Rise of insurance companies and nation states
Quetelet 1796-1874
Lobatto 1797-1866

Question 3

Enlightenment next steps

Answer 3

Newtonian mechanics
Utility
What was maths
Anti-newtonianism

Finding answers to questions from Roman Law
Explaining, fitting in, ego

Thomas Wright 1693-1767
Jean-Antoine Nollet - 1700-1770

Question 4

Concepts

Answer 4

Gardening: garden for food, garden for representation
Compare with the attempts to the systematic description and preening of animals by Linnaeus.
Assuming structure in Creation - Assuming structure because of creation

Salon Culture

Question 5

Elisabeth Ferrand

Answer 5

1700-1752
Clairaut 1713-1765
Maupertuis 1698-1756
Condillac 1714-1780
D’Alembert 1717-1783

Question 6

Important figures

Answer 6

Emilie du Chatelet 1706-1749
Maria Agnesi 1718-1799
Leonhard Eular 1707-1783
Pieter Langendijk 1714

Question 7

Mathematical societies

Answer 7

Hamburg 1660
Spitalfields 1717
Amsterdam 1778