BASEDOW, JOHANN BERNHARD. - MATHEMATICS IN THE EDUCATIONAL REFORM.

Bewiesene Grundsätze der reinen Mathematik. 2 Bde. (1. Bd. Zahlenkunst und Algebra, zur elementarischen Bibliothek. 2. bd. Geometrie und Etwas von dem Unendlichen).

Leipzig, Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1774. Bound in 2 very fine contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels in leather on spines with gilt lettering., gilt border on all covers. Blindtooled decorations on covers in Cambridge-style, "mirror-binding". Edges gilt. Stamp on foot of titlepages. (22),312;(16),296 pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. Light browning to some quires and to top of titles, otherwise fine.

Scarce first edition of the famous German educators mathematical textbook, - his suggestion to how mathematics should be taught in his educational reform.
Basedow’s views were based on the writings of men such as John Amos Comenius, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His practical teaching methods were more expansive in their implications for education than those of any of his immediate predecessors in the field, and by the early 19th century they had become a fundamental force in Germany’s public school systems.

Basedow blev i 1753 ansat af J.H.E. Bernstorff ved Sorø Akademi som professor i moral og de skønne videnskaber. Her kom han bl.a. i forbindelse med den danske oplysningsforfatter og Sorø-professor Jens Schielderup Sneedorff, hvis værker han oversatte til tysk. Sneedorff blev selv inspirereret af Basedows pædagogiske idéer.

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