Thomas Harriot - A Life in Science

List of contents

• Prologue


• Chapter 1: Harriot's London


• Chapter 2: Sea Fever


• Chapter 3: The Science of Sea and Sky


• Chapter 4: Practical Navigation (and Why the Winds Blow)


• Chapter 5: America at Last


• Chapter 6: Preparing for "Virginia"


• Chapter 7: Roanoke Island


• Chapter 8: After Roanoke


• Chapter 9: War, and a New Calendar


• Chapter 10: New Chances


• Chapter 11: Setback


• Chapter 12: Royal Refraction


• Chapter 13: Spirals and Turmoil


• Chapter 14: Changing of the Guard


• Chapter 15: Algebra, Rainbows, and Tragedy


• Chapter 16: Solving the Rainbows


• Chapter 17: Conversations with Kepler


• Chapter 18: Atomic Speculations


• Chapter 19: Searching the Skies


• Chapter 20: Gravity


• Chapter 21: Mathematics, Jamestown, Guiana


• Chapter 22: The End of an Era


• Chapter 23: All Things Must Pass


• Epilogue: Resurrecting Harriot

About the author

Robyn Arianrhod is Adjunct Research Fellow at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University. Her previous works include Seduced by Logic and Einstein's Heroes.

Summary

A new biography of Thomas Harriot, the greatest unknown scientific mind of the Renaissance

Additional text

The story of Thomas Harriot's life and works, was it not so well documented by such a respected scholar as Dr. Arianrhod, could easily be thought a work of pure fiction - and extravagant, scarcely believable fiction at that. Yet it is all true. That Dr. Arianrhod has devoted the time and effort in bringing him back to us through this absolutely captivating biography is something for which we should all be deeply grateful, and in similar gratitude, we owe it to the memory, indeed, the unrelentingly curious and inquiring spirit, of Thomas Harriot himself, to read it.

Product details

• Authors: Robyn Arianrhod, Robyn (Adjunct Research Fellow Arianrhod, Arianrhod Robyn
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2019
• EAN: 9780190271855
• ISBN: 978-0-19-027185-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); European History, SCIENCE / History, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, History of Science, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Biography: science, technology & medicine, History of mathematics, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Early 17th century c 1600 to c 1650, Later 16th century c 1550 to c 1599