Description: Oronce Fine was appointed to the first chair of mathematics at the Institution of Royal Lecturers in Paris. This work presents his philosophy of mathematics and his contribution to the reevaluation of the institutional and epistemological status of the discipline in the French academic sphere of the sixteenth century.
Brief description: Angela Axworthy a obtenu un doctorat de philosophie en 2011 au Centre d'etudes superieures de la Renaissance de Tours (UMR 7323). Elle poursuit ses recherches sur la pensee epistemologique des mathematiciens de la Renaissance au Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte de Berlin depuis septembre 2012.