Lesley Cormack

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According to Wikipedia, Lesley B. Cormack is a Canadian historian of science and academic administrator specializing in the history of mathematics and of geography. She is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus.

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"Good Fences Make Good Neighbors": Geography as Self-Definition in Early Modern England (1991) (60)
Eastern wisedome and learning : the study of Arabic in seventeenth-century England (1998) (50)
Charting an Empire : Geography at the English Universi (39)
Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620. (1997) (34)
A history of science in society : from philosophy to utility (2005) (27)
Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (2017) (12)
The Scientific Revolution, by Steven ShapinThe Scientific Revolution, by Steven Shapin. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1996. xiv, 211 pp. $19.95 U.S. (1997) (9)
The Commerce of Utility: Teaching Mathematical Geography in Early Modern England (2006) (8)
Flat Earth or Round Sphere: Misconceptions of the Shape of the Earth and the Fifteenth-Century Transformation of the World (1994) (7)
Introduction: Practical Mathematics, Practical Mathematicians, and the Case for Transforming the Study of Nature (2017) (5)
THAT MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANS TAUGHT THAT THE EARTH WAS FLAT (2009) (5)
Handwork and Brainwork: Beyond the Zilsel Thesis (2017) (4)
Mathematics for Sale: Mathematical Practitioners, Instrument Makers, and Communities of Scholars in Sixteenth-Century London (2017) (3)
Myth 2. That before Columbus, Geographers and Other Educated People Thought the Earth Was Flat (2015) (3)
:Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 15001625 (2006) (2)
Maps as Educational Tools in the Renaissance (2013) (2)
A History of Science in Society: A Reader (2007) (1)
David N. Livingstone, The Geographical Tradition. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. viii + 434. ISBN 0-631-18535-6, £45.00 (hardback); 0-631-18536-0, £13.95 (paperback). (1993) (1)
The Mapmakers' Quest (2005) (1)
THE ROLE OF MATHEMATICAL PRACTITIONERS AND MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE IN DEVELOPING MATHEMATICS AS THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE (2016) (1)
Book Review:Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps: Biobibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570 Robert W. Karrow, Jr. (1995) (1)
The World at your fingertips : English Renaissance Globes as Cosmographical, Mathematical and Pedagogical Instruments (2009) (1)
Paradise Found and Lost: The Pacific since Magellan (1990) (1)
Book Review:Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections John P. Snyder; Two by Two: Twenty-Two Pairs of Maps from the Newberry Library Illustrating Five Hundred Years of Western Cartographic History James Akerman, Robert Karrow, David Buisseret (1994) (1)
Science and Technology (2004) (0)
:The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity (2007) (0)
Saving the phenomena: the scientific revolution(s) explained (2017) (0)
The Language of Nature (2018) (0)
Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice, by Amir R. AlexanderGeometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice, by Amir R. Alexander. Writing Science series. Stanford, California, Stanford Univers (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain, by Michael Hunter (2016) (0)
Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past (review) (1999) (0)
New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration, by Peter Whitfield (1999) (0)
Saving the phenomena: the scientific revolution(s) explained (2017) (0)
Writing Geographical Exploration: James and the Northwest Passage 1631-33, by Wayne DaviesWriting Geographical Exploration: James and the Northwest Passage 1631-33, by Wayne Davies. Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 2003. xviii, 318 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). (2005) (0)
Martin Brückner.The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity. xv + 276 pp., figs., index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. $22.50 (paper). (2007) (0)
Canons to Right of Them, Canons to Left of Them (2005) (0)
Maps in Tudor England, by P.D.A. Harvey (1994) (0)
Charles W. J. Withers.Geography, Science, and National Identity: Scotland since 1520. (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, 33.) xvii + 312 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. (2003) (0)
Myth 3. That Medieval Christians Taught That the Earth Was Flat (2009) (0)
A review of "The Jewel House. Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution" by Deborah Harkness (2008) (0)
The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster by by M. McLean (2010) (0)
Knowledge, utility of (2015) (0)
Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500–1625. By Andrew Fitzmaurice. Ideas in Context, volume 67. Edited by, Quentin Skinner et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. x+216. $55.00. (2006) (0)
Robert Goulding.Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History. Archimedes, New Studies in the History of Science and Technology 25. Berlin: Springer, 2010. xx + 201 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $139. ISBN: 978–90–481–3541–7. (2011) (0)
Geography and Enlightenment (2000) (0)
MATTHEW H. EDNEY, Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xx+480. ISBN 0-226-18487-0. £27.95, $35.00. (2000) (0)
Ptolemy's Geography. An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters by J. Lennart Berggren, Alexander Jones (review) (2014) (0)
Reviews of Books:Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado D. Graham Burnett (2003) (0)
Book Review:John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion Nicholas H. Clulee (1991) (0)
Book Reviews : Mapping the renaissance world. By Frank Lestringant, translated by David Fausett. Cambridge: Polity Press. 1994. xvii + 197 pp. £39.50 cloth. ISBN 0 7456 1147 8 (1996) (0)

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University of Manitoba