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Thomas Harriot - An Elizabethan Man of Science (Hardcover, New edition)
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Thomas Harriot - An Elizabethan Man of Science (Hardcover, New edition)
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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.
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