Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College : studies in the intellectual history of London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / edited by Francis Ames-Lewis.

Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College : studies in the intellectual history of London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / edited by Francis Ames-Lewis.

Aldershot, Hampshire ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, ©1999.

xxi, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Papers presented at the "Gresham College 1597-1997" conference held March 20-21, 1997 at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reconstructing London : Sir Thomas Gresham and Bishopsgate / Ann Saunders
Sir Thomas and the 'House of Gresham' : activities of a mercer-merchant adventurer / Ian Blanchard
Citizen and mercer : Sir Thomas Gresham and the social and political world of the city of London / Vanessa Harding
Failed transmission : Sir Thomas Gresham, reproduction, and the background to Gresham's professorship of physic / Margaret Pelling
Early insurance in and around the Royal Exchange / Trevor Sibbett
Sculpture at the Royal Exchange in the seventeenth century / Katharine Gibson
Civic rhetoric, 1560-1640 / Lynette Hunter
Plato in the Tudor academies / Sarah Hutton
Testimonia humanitatis : the early lectures of Henry Savile / Robert Goulding
'No small force' : natural philosophy and mathematics in Thomas Gresham's London / Stephen Clucas
Gresham College and London practitioners : the nature of the English mathematical community / Mordechai Feingold
Christopher Wren's Greshamite history of astronomy and geometry / Jim Bennett
Why translate Serlio? / J.V. Field.

Great Britain -- England.

DA317.8.G74 S57 1999