As transmissões duplas dos livros-texto de Lacroix e Legendre no século XIX: o caso da Colômbia e da Venezuela

Abstract

This article aims to analyse the transmissions of Lacroix and Legendre's textbooks to Colombia and Venezuela during the 19th century. In this analysis, we highlight the different educational roles played by textbooks in the respective countries. For this, we methodologically mobilise the concepts of transmission (Schubring, 1999) and of historical analysis of mathematics books (Schubring, 1987, 2003). We analyse, first, how the textbooks by Lacroix and Legendre were transmitted to Spain and, secondly, to Colombia and Venezuela. We highlight the active process of the receiving poles of textbooks.