Before Newton - The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow

Klappentext A comprehensive re-evaluation of Isaac Barrow (1630 1677)! one of the more prominent and intriguing of all seventeenth-century men of science. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Editor's preface; 1. Isaac Barrow: divine, scholar, mathematician Mordechai Feingold; 2. The Optical Lectures and the foundations of the theory of optical imagery Alan E. Shapiro; 3. Barrow's mathematics: between ancients and moderns Michael S. Mahoney; 4. Isaac Barrow's academic milieu: Interregnum and Restoration Cambridge John Gascoigne; 5. Barrow as a scholar Anthony Grafton; 6. The preacher Irène Simon; 7. Isaac Barrow's library Mordechai Feingold; Index.

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• Authors: Mordechai Feingold
• Assisted by: Mordechai Feingold (Editor), Feingold Mordechai (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521063852
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06385-2
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, MATHEMATICS / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Biography: science, technology and medicine, C 1600 To C 1700