A comprehensive re-evaluation of Isaac Barrow (1630-1677), one of
the more prominent and intriguing of all seventeenth-century men of
science. Barrow is remembered today - if at all - only as Sir Isaac
Newton's mentor and patron, but he in fact made important
contributions to the disciplines of optics and geometry. Moreover,
he was a prolific and influential preacher as well as a renowned
classical scholar. By seeking to understand Barrow's mathematical
work, primarily within the confines of the pre-Newtonian scientific
framework, the book offers a substantial rethinking of his
scientific acumen. In addition to providing a biographical study of
Barrow, it explores the intimate connections among his scientific,
philological and religious worldviews in an attempt to convey the
complexity of the seventeenth-century culture that gave rise to
Isaac Barrow, a breed of polymath that would become increasingly
rare with the advent of modern science.
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