Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College

Francis Ames-Lewis , Birkbeck College, London, UK Francis Ames-Lewis, Ann Saunders, Ian Blanchard, Vanessa Harding, Margaret Pelling, Trevor Sibbett, Katharine Gibson, Lynette Hunter, Sarah Hutton, Robert Goulding, Stephen Clucas, Mordechai Feingold, Jim Bennett, J.V. Field.

• Contents: Introduction; Francis Ames-Lewis; 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; Index.

'Several of (the chapters) illuminate in a significant way the place of mathematics and astronomy in the capital... reveals much about the state of mathematical studies...' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXXI '... a well researched and illustrated piece... Ashgate has done a good job of production. The book has a fine index and its numerous illustrations include actual plates increasingly rare in books outside the field of art history.' Albion, Vol. 33