Before Newton - The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 1990
First published:	1990
Editors:	Mordechai Feingold
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	396
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-30694-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-30694-9
Barcode:	9780521306942

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