Thomas Harriot
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Alchemical Experiments
Arminian Controversy
Artis Analyticae Praxis
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David ?. Quinn
David Β. Quinn
Durham House
early modern science
Elizabethan scientific networks
English Renaissance scholarship
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Gordon R. Batho
Gunpowder Plot context
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harriot's
Harriot's Algebra
Harriot's Life
Harriot's Manuscripts
Harriot's Papers
Harriot's Time
Harriot's Work
Hilary Gatti
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Infinite Divisibility
J.A. Bennett
Johannes Lohne
John D. North
John J. Roche
John White's Drawings
manuscripts
mathematical astronomy
Muriel Seltman
natural philosophy history
Nihilo Nihil Fit
Northumberland's Library
Pole Star
Ralegh
scientific correspondence
Scott Mandelbrote
Sir Walter Ralegh
Sir William Lower
St Christopher Le Stocks
St Mary Hall
Stephen Clucas
Theodore De Mayerne
Thomas Harriot
William Lower
work
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754600787
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume assembles ten studies of the life and work of Thomas Harriot (1560-1621). These are based on lectures that have been given annually at Oriel College, Oxford since 1990, by such authorities as Hugh Trevor Roper, David Quinn and John D. North. An astronomer and mathematician whose activities embraced not only science but also philosophical debate and an engagement in the early exploration of America, Harriot occupied a prominent place in intellectual and public life. He was well read in the contemporary literature of science, and his writings on algebra, his correspondence, and his early observations with the telescope, undertaken at the same time as Galileo’s, brought him to the attention of leading men of science both in Britain and abroad. Recent scholarship has enhanced historians’ appreciation of Harriot’s achievements and of the scientific context and social milieu in which he worked, a milieu distinguished by his friendship with Walter Ralegh and the Ninth Earl of Northumberland (the ’Wizard Earl’ whose association with the Gunpowder Plot led to many years of imprisonment in the Tower). The contributions to Thomas Harriot. An Elizabethan man of science shed new light on all the main aspects of Harriot’s life and stand as an important contribution to the re-evaluation of one of the most gifted and intriguing figures in early modern British science.
Robert Fox, University of Oxford, UK Robert Fox, David B. Quinn, Gordon R. Batho, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Hilary Gatti, Stephen Clucas, J. A. Bennett, Muriel Seltman, John D. North, John J. Roche, Scott Mandelbrote, Katherine D. Watson.
