Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Setting the scene
2. William Oughtred and Thomas Harriot
3. John Collins's campaign for a current English algebra textbook
4. John Pell's English edition of Rahn's Algebra and John Kersey's Algebra
5. The arithmetic formulation of algebra in John Wallis's Treatise of Algebra
6. English mathematical thinkers take sides on early modern algebra
7. The mixed mathematical legacy of Newton's Universal Arithmetick
8. George Berkeley at the intersection of algebra and philosophy
9. The Scottish response to Newtonian algebra
10. Algebra 'considered as thelogical institutes of the mathematician'.