History of Universities: Volume XXXVIII/1

History of Universities: XXXVIII/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

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Mordechai Feingold, Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities, Caltech,Robin Darwall-Smith, Archivist, Jesus College, University of Oxford

Preface, Davide CrippaArticlesThe Projector as Liminal and Ambiguous Figure: The Case Of Gottfried Leibniz, Audrey BorowskiInfinitesimal analysis for beginners in early eighteenth-century France: the case of Oratorian books, Claire SchwartzFrancesco Bianchini: A Promising Novel Source on the Global Scope of Science Teaching in Early Modern Rome, Mattia BrancatoTeaching and Learning Mathematics in Eighteenth-Century Padua: The Case of Giovanni Poleni (1687-1761), Brendan DooleyPhysica at the University of Leiden, 1675-c.1721, Steffen Ducheyne'Dynamische Mathematik' at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: On Friedrich Fröbel's Paper Practices, Michael Friedman