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Thomas Harriot 1560 1621
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language : en
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Release Date : 1969
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Thomas Harriot 1560 1621
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language : en
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Release Date : 1983
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Thomas Harriot 1560 1621
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Author : Rosalind C. H. Tanner
language : fr
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Release Date : 19??
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Thomas Harriot 1560 1621
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Author : Alistair Cameron Crombie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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Thomas Harriot
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Author : Robert Fox
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Thomas Harriot written by Robert Fox and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
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.
Thomas Harriot S Doctrine Of Triangular Numbers
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Author : Janet Beery
language : en
Publisher: European Mathematical Society
Release Date : 2009
Thomas Harriot S Doctrine Of Triangular Numbers written by Janet Beery and has been published by European Mathematical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) was a mathematician and astronomer who founded the English school of algebra. He is known not only for his work in algebra and geometry but also as a prolific writer with wide-ranging interests in ballistics, navigation, and optics. (He discovered the sine law of refraction now known as Snell's law.) By about 1614, Harriot had developed finite difference interpolation methods for navigational tables. In 1618 (or slightly later) he composed a treatise entitled `De numeris triangularibus et inde de progressionibus arithmeticis, Magisteria magna', in which he derived symbolic interpolation formulae and showed how to use them. This treatise was never published and is here reproduced for the first time. Commentary has been added to help the reader follow Harriot's beautiful but almost completely nonverbal presentation. The introductory essay preceding the treatise gives an overview of the contents of the `Magisteria' and describes its influence on Harriot's contemporaries and successors over the next sixty years. Harriot's method was not superseded until Newton, apparently independently, made a similar discovery in the 1660s. The ideas in the `Magisteria' were spread primarily through personal communication and unpublished manuscripts, and so, quite apart from their intrinsic mathematical interest, their survival in England during the seventeenth century provides an important case study in the dissemination of mathematics through informal networks of friends and acquaintances.
A Briefe And True Report Of The New Found Land Of Virginia
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Author : Thomas Harriot
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-15
A Briefe And True Report Of The New Found Land Of Virginia written by Thomas Harriot and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Travel categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" by Thomas Harriot. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Thomas Harriot
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Author : Robyn Arianrhod
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-04
Thomas Harriot written by Robyn Arianrhod and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-04 with History categories.
As Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal friend to Sir Walter Ralegh, Harriot--whose life was almost exactly contemporaneous to Shakespeare's--took part in the first expedition to colonize Virginia in 1585. Not only was he responsible for getting Ralegh's ships safely to harbor in the New World, he was also the first European to acquire a working knowledge of an indigenous language from what is today the US, and to record in detail the local people's way of life. In addition to his groundbreaking navigational, linguistic, and ethnological work, Harriot was the first to use a telescope to map the moon's surface, and, independently of Galileo, recorded the behavior of sunspots and discovered the law of free fall. He preceded Newton in his discovery of the properties of the prism and the nature of the rainbow, to name just two more of his unsung "firsts." Indeed many have argued that Harriot was the best mathematician of his age, and one of the finest experimental scientists of all time. Yet he has remained an elusive figure. He had no close family to pass down records, and few of his letters survive. Most importantly, he never published his scientific discoveries, and not long after his death in 1621 had all but been forgotten. In recent decades, many scholars have been intent on restoring Harriot to his rightful place in scientific history, but Arianrhod's biography is the first to pull him fully into the limelight. She has done it the only way it can be done: through his science. Using Harriot's re-discovered manuscripts, Arianrhod illuminates the full extent of his scientific and cultural achievements, expertly guiding us through what makes them original and important, and the story behind them. Harriot's papers provide unique insight into the scientific process itself. Though his thinking depended on a more natural, intuitive approach than those who followed him, and who achieved the lasting fame that escaped him, Harriot helped lay the foundations of what in Newton's time would become modern physics. Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science puts a human face to scientific inquiry in the Elizabethan and Jacobean worlds, and at long last gives proper due to the life and times of one of history's most remarkable minds.
The Greate Invention Of Algebra
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Author : Jacqueline A. Stedall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Greate Invention Of Algebra written by Jacqueline A. Stedall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Algebra categories.
This text provides an insight into the work of Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621), an innovative thinker and practitioner in several branches of the mathematical sciences, including navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry and algebra.
A Briefe And True Report Of The New Found Land Of Virginia
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Author : Thomas Harriot
language : en
Publisher: Manchester [England] : Photolithographed for the Holbein Society, by A. Brothers
Release Date : 1888
A Briefe And True Report Of The New Found Land Of Virginia written by Thomas Harriot and has been published by Manchester [England] : Photolithographed for the Holbein Society, by A. Brothers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Discoveries in geography categories.