ORONCE FINE CONSIDERED The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics, Instruments, and Print in Renaissance France. Edited by Alexander Marr (Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2009). Pp. xvi + 224. £49. ISBN 978-1-90028-996-2.Oronce Fine (1494-1555) is remembered today - when he is remembered at all - as a geographer, cartographer, and book illustrator. To his contemporaries, however, Fine was much more. A polymath, Fine engaged in the full spectrum of the Renaissance mathematical arts, from teaching as the first Royal Lecturer in mathematics at the French College Royal to making instruments and overseeing Paris's bustling printing houses. He inspired the admiration and envy of aspiring younger scholars, including Pedro Nunes and Petrus Ramus. Yet, despite these accomplishments, Fine remains an often over-looked figure in the history of science, one usually dismissed as a mediocre popularizer rather than an original thinker.The essays in this volume attempt to situate Fine in the context of the sixteenthcentury French mathematical and scholarly world. By emphasizing how Fine is representative of larger trends in early modern culture and scholarship, they thus aim to rehabilitate the mathematician as an important subject of study for modern historians. The contributions themselves grew out of a 2006 conference organized by the volume's editor, Alexander Marr, and held in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. The collection will be of use to scholars interested in the Ufe and work of Oronce Fine, as well as historians of Renaissance French intellectual life, early modern instrument-making and printing, and mathematics.The contributions, culled from a distinguished group of international scholars, cover the breadth of Fine's career. Articles by Isabelle Pantin and Angela Axworthy explore Fine's role as Royal Lecturer in mathematics and the relationship between his mathematics and the French humanist tradition. Another set of papers by Pascal Brioist, Sven Dupre, and Catherine Eagleton examine Fine's work in the realm of practical mathematics and instrument design, and, in particular, the relationship between Fine's experiential knowledge and the textual tradition. Articles by Jean-Marc Besse, Adam Mosley, and Jean-Jacques Brioist explore Fine's contributions to cosmography, geography, and cartography. His legacy is afforded special attention in the final three contributions by Henrique Leitao, Giovanna Cifoletti, and Anthony Turner, who examine Fine's reception by later mathematicians and instrument manufacturers.The breadth of Fine's own career could easily have produced a collection with few unifying themes. …