UID:
almahu_9949434645402882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003096580
,
1003096581
,
9781000811117
,
1000811115
,
9781000811148
,
100081114X
Inhalt:
"This volume sheds new light on one of the most remarkable polymaths of the English Renaissance. It offers original perspectives not only on Harriot's personal achievements in mathematics and natural philosophy but also on the wider realms of exploration, colonial ambition, and philosophical debate in which he earned the attention and respect of contemporaries in and far beyond the socially elevated circles of his two great patrons, first Walter Ralegh and then Henry Percy, the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Harriot's sixteenth-century world was one of unprecedented expansion in both scientific understanding and the discovery of new lands and peoples. The essays gathered here bring out forcefully the effect of this expanding vision, encapsulated in Harriot's Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1588), the first detailed description of America to be published in the English language. In addition to an essay by a recent biographer of Harriot, the volume contains reworked versions of seven Thomas Harriot Lectures, an annual lecture series inaugurated in 1990 in Oriel College, Oxford. It follows two earlier volumes of Harriot Lectures, also edited by Robert Fox, that appeared in 2000 and 2012"--
Anmerkung:
Thomas Harriot Lectures 1990-2021 -- Introduction: Thomas Harriot. Science, Mathematics, Exploration in the English Renaissance / Robert Fox -- The Certain and Full Discovery of the World. Thomas Harriot and Richard Hakluyt / David Harris Sacks -- Thomas Harriot in the Twenty-First Century. Twenty-Five Years of the Harriot Lecture / Stephen Clucas -- "Our Learned Countryman". Thomas Harriot and the Emergence of Mathematical Community in Seventeenth-Century England / Philip Beeley -- Thomas Harriot. The World's First Ethnographer? / Mark Horton -- Harriot, Hakluyt, and the New Found Land of Virginia / Daniel Carey -- "Both to Love and Fear us". How to Found an Empire in Harriot's Day / Felipe Fernández-Armesto -- Thomas Harriot's Magnificent Book. Creating Europe's First Illustrated Exploration Narrative / Larry Tise -- Writing about Thomas Harriot / Robyn Arianrhod.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Thomas Harriot: science and discovery in the English Renaissance Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9780367561376
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Biographies.
;
History.
;
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003096580
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003096580
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