“A Magazine of all perfection”: Mathematics in the Early Modern Satire Histrio-Mastix – References and About the Authors

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About the Authors

Laura Søvsø Thomasen, mag.art, PhD, is a research librarian at the Royal Danish Library. Her research has focused on interactions between the sciences and literary and visual culture in the early modern and modern periods.

Henrik Kragh Sørensen, MSc, PhD, is a professor of the history and philosophy of the mathematical and computational sciences at the University of Copenhagen. His research is currently focused on using digital methods to assist philosophical studies of contemporary mathematics.