x

Fifteen Eighty Four

Academic perspectives from Cambridge University Press

Menu

Anachronism(s) in the history of mathematics

Debate concerning anachronism has long vexed historical interpretation. Forms of anachronism are often declared the greatest failure, almost a moral sin, that a historian can commit. Yet, many have spoken...

Niccolò Guicciardini | 24 Jun 2021

In the footsteps of Leibniz: Learning by Computing

This book focuses on the shaping of the lifting surfaces to give an aircraft the desired performance. Skills in shaping for performance can be built by hands-on experience in real aerodynamic design...

Arthur Rizzi, Jesper Oppelstrup | 23 Jun 2021

Three Lessons for Human Health Research after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Many governments claim that the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic is through vaccines. But this can only be partly true because of two inherently complicated and confounding factors: (i) the endless ingenuity...

Graeme T Laurie | 23 Jun 2021

COVID-19’s Aftermath – A Looming Eviction Crisis?

Perhaps surprisingly, the COVID-19 crisis had a broadly positive short-term impact on housing and homelessness problems and on tenant security. The urgent need from a public health perspective to get...

Rachael Walsh | 21 Jun 2021

Should the rich pay higher fines?

What if fines could be adjusted not only to the severity of the offense, but also to the income of the offender? What if the rich pay a higher fine than the poor for the same offense? This is not just...

Michael Faure, Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko | 18 Jun 2021

Freedom Beyond the Border

In 1829, Ohio’s state legislators made an announcement that reverberated through African American communities across the nation. Responding to white discomfort over the state’s growing free Black...

Elena K. Abbott | 17 Jun 2021
Jeffrey N. Cox | 16 Jun 2021

The Biblical Authors Should Count as Philosophers

Why isn’t the biblical literature taught alongside other philosophies? By any objective criteria, it measures up to the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. In Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic...

Dru Johnson | 15 Jun 2021

Beyond lipstick: how languages can change the scientific Babel

As an applied linguist interested in science communication, an important specialised domain of language in society today, I have developed high perceptiveness of the richness and the power of the...

Carmen Pérez-Llantada | 14 Jun 2021

From exegesis to stem cells, from governance to finance: Islamic norms in a positivist way

During the 1990s, in Egypt, Professor Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd was prosecuted by a group of attorneys and condemned by two courts of the Egyptian national judicial system to be divorced from his wife based...

Baudouin Dupret | 11 Jun 2021

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard is one of the world’s most lauded and commercially successful playwrights, author of more than a dozen award-winning and profitable plays for the West End and Broadway. He has also been...

James N. Loehlin | 11 Jun 2021

Hearing E. M. Forster

Most readers recognize E. M. Forster as the early twentieth-century writer who wrote about India; some remember his socially relevant and thematically wide-ranging Edwardian novels and short stories,...

Tsung-Han Tsai | 11 Jun 2021