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ID:SKE32014
Title:Making mathematical practice: gentlemen, practitioners and artisans in Elizabethan England
Originator:Stephen Johnson
Date:1994
Summary:This dissertation studies the culture of mathematical practice in Elizabethan England. It looks in detail at the work of a small group of mathematical practitioners whose careers all intersected during the design and reconstruction of Dover harbour in the 1570s and ’80s. I show how English mathematical practice was fashioned through the technical and social strategies of its new practitioners.

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TR 34 SW 1433Former site of Paradise Pent, Dover Western Docks (Monument) ()
TR 34 SW 1777Former site of piers and groynes on the eastern side of the 'Long Wall of the Great Pent' and North Pier, Dover Western Docks (Monument) ()
TR 34 SW 1424Possible site of two post medieval sluice gates between 'The Great Pent' and the main harbour at Dover (Monument) ()
TR 34 SW 1437Probable original location of the early post medieval Long Wall of the Great Pent, Dover (Monument) ()
TR 34 SW 1427Site of the post medieval 'Cross Pent Wall' (Monument) ()