UID:
almahu_9947414975002882
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1 online resource (xi, 380 pages) :
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ISBN:
9780511983559 (ebook)
Inhalt:
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. Moreover, he was a prolific and influential preacher as well as a renowned classical scholar. By seeking to understand Barrow's mathematical work, primarily within the confines of the pre-Newtonian scientific framework, the book offers a substantial rethinking of his scientific acumen. In addition to providing a biographical study of Barrow, it explores the intimate connections among his scientific, philological and religious worldviews in an attempt to convey the complexity of the seventeenth-century culture that gave rise to Isaac Barrow, a breed of polymath that would become increasingly rare with the advent of modern science.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Isaac Barrow : divine, scholar, mathematician / Mordechai Feingold -- The Optical lectures and the foundations of the theory of optical imagery / Alan E. Shapiro -- Barrow's mathematics : between ancients and moderns / Michael S. Mahoney -- Isaac Barrow's academic milieu : Interregnum restoration Cambridge / John Gascoigne -- Barrow as a scholar / Anthony Grafton -- The preacher / Irène Simon -- Isaac Barrow's library / Mordechai Feingold.
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Print version: ISBN 9780521306942
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511983559
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