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This essay analyses a unique instance in western India around 1800 in which artists attempted to visualize rhythm (tālamālā) by co‐ordinating artistic with natural measures. While they looked to earlier templates of picturing music, such as of melody in rāgamālā, the artists sought forms of inspiration specific to rhythm. In particular, they turned to the workings of time, from a composition's tempo to a person's mental activity, to an animal's gait and to the moon's wax and wane. These intersecting temporal and rhythmic concepts, however, were abstract. To draw them into a visible realm, the painters relied on analogy as a method of comparison. They affiliated human‐made rhythms in texts, pictures, and dance with those produced in the natural world, by the sun and moon, termites and snakes, the earth and rivers. By mobilizing their understanding of the environment, and people's place within it, the artists of these paintings managed to picture rhythm through a rare turn to ecology in the history of South Asian painting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the notion of tact at the intersection of technology, music, and literature around 1800. Focusing on E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann and Die Automate, it situates his texts in the longer history of musical automata in the eighteenth century and alongside the invention of the metronome by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel in the early 19th century. This mechanization of music spurred debates about the problem of aesthetic order among composers and music critics, specifically about different conceptions of musical tact. Against this background the article reads Hoffmann's texts as an attempt to articulate an inner sense of tact at once dependent on and irreducible to the mechanical musical instruments of his contemporaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the result of a comparative literature study aimed at identifying relevant historical mathematical contexts that may be applicable to present day mathematics education. Five Swedish textbooks in algebra from the period around the year 1800 are scrutinized. A content analysis and a comparison between seven categories shows that there exist several historical features that may be used in teaching. These have the potential to serve both teachers and learners of mathematics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Explores how gender shaped the geography of daily social life for working people during the period from 1820 to 1870 in accounts of visiting with neighbors, kin and friends. Sociability of working people; Information on visiting patterns; Diaries as data.

The article reports the nature of arithmetic course in the 1800s. Aside from being a study of rules, arithmetic was practically all written during that period. Most of the popular topics discussed such as true discount and equation of payments are now obsolete. Commercial topics were predominant because the subject was studied for commercial purposes. Moreover, arithmetic course incorporates lessons relating to the vocational problems encountered by glaziers, masons, painters and carpenters, among others.

The article reports that professor W.L. Whittemore of Milford, New Hampshire, is writing a series of articles for the Farmer's Cabinet, published by Colonel W.B. Rotch of Milford, New Hampshire, which is of exceptional value by way of testimony. He attributes the founding of the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard in 1847, and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a little later, indirectly to the American Institute of Instruction founded in 1830.

Presents a quotation from 1819 about the importance of thinking for oneself.