GRADE NINE: the required elements

• Topics: Perspective, conics, logarithms, probability.
• Suggested Integrative Projects (one required):
  1. Conics from Apollonius to Durer.
  2. Galileo and the pendulum clock.
  3. Vicenzo, equal temperament, the 12th root of 2.
  4. Marin Mersenne and musical arithmetic.
  5. Newton: will Halley's Comet destroy us?
  6. Cartography, Mercator, etc.
  7. John Dee, the Sidney circle, the Royal Society.
  8. Double entry bookeeping, John Recorde, logarithms.
  9. Cartesian coordinates and the notations of algebra.
  10. Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum and the Platonic Solids.