People, Places, Practices

Resources

A page for resources generated during the conference

Exhibit Competition:

Why not display your Exhibit on Twitter for the chance to win a one-to-one research meeting with our Senior Archivist or specialist Librarian or Museum Curator! Use the hashtag #MathsExhibit and the handle @StAndrewsuniLib. Closing date 15 August 2021 See below for details of Exhibit.

Exhibit tool (demo on Tuesday)

Sophie Lenihan (the presenter) writes: Here is some information and helpful links for today’s attendees. As I mentioned in the meeting, I am happy for anyone to message who has questions about exhibit or who might need a bit more help getting started. Email skl7 "at" st-andrews.ac.uk

• Exhibit main page: https://exhibit.so/
• IIIF information page: https://iiif.io/community/#community-groups-committees
• St Andrews Collections Website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/collections/
• St Andrews Exhibit Information Page (includes training videos): https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/collections/exhibit/
• Guide to IIIF resources (guide with images on finding IIIF resources on various collections webpages, including Toronto!): https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/assets/university/library/documents/IIF%20resources.pdf
• James Gregory Exhibit: https://exhibit.so/exhibits/lasImWVUrJwWgNSBxcnN

Mathematically Curious St Andrews - Virtual Tour with St Andrews students

• The tour: https://maths.curious-sta.org/
• The team developing the tour welcome feedback via this form https://forms.gle/gdcmxQcKvGqwpLmE6

St Andrews' Special Collections "Show & Tell"

With many thanks to Rachel Hart and Pilar Gil

Slides from talk

• Special Collections: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/special-collections/ for all collections
  OR, alternatively, for rare books
  “Classic Catalogue” https://library.st-andrews.ac.uk/ and find the “Rare Books” tab
• More about our copy of Difesa di Galileo Galilei https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Galileo_Difesa/
• Craik, Alex D. D. “The Hydrostatical Works of George Sinclair ( c .1630–1696): Their Neglect and Criticism.” Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, Apr. 2018, p. 20170044. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2017.0044
• Craik, Alex D. D. “A Book for the King: John Geddy’s Methodi Sive Compendii Mathematici (1586).” BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, vol. 30, no. 2, May 2015, pp. 113–30, doi:10.1080/17498430.2015.1004506
• Craik, Alex D. D. “A Forgotten British Analyst: Nicolas Vilant (1737–1807).” Historia Mathematica, vol. 39, no. 2, May 2012, pp. 174–205. doi:10.1016/j.hm.2011.10.002
• More about the Fair Book of James Walker: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/fair_book/
• D’Arcy Thompson’s correspondence with John Marshall: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Darcy/marshall/
• The "1687 Catalogue" of St Andrews’ University Library http://www.nesms.org.uk/rvp/saul/SAULCat1687.html. For the list of books acquired by James Gregory, scroll towards the bottom of the "Fairweather Catalogue", and see also M. Pilar Gil “Collecting science in St Andrews. A history in context”, M.Litt Dissertation, University of St Andrews, 2016

Open Virtual Worlds

• Project website: https://www.openvirtualworlds.org/
• St Andrews from the Sky: https://vimeo.com/313155956
• St Andrews Cathedral Priory, 1318: https://vimeo.com/465681718
• St Salvator's College, 1559: https://vimeo.com/240629953
• Market Street, St Andrews, 16th Century: https://vimeo.com/488090403
• Holy Trinity, 1559: https://vimeo.com/348177059