Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance write by Robert Fox. This book was released on 2022-12-29. Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Thomas Harriot; Renaissance Scientist
Thomas Harriot; Renaissance Scientist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Harriot; Renaissance Scientist write by John W. Shirley. This book was released on 1974. Thomas Harriot; Renaissance Scientist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Thomas Harriot
Thomas Harriot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Harriot write by Robyn Arianrhod. This book was released on 2019-04-04. Thomas Harriot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Thomas Harriot, Renaissance Science
Thomas Harriot, Renaissance Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Harriot, Renaissance Science write by J. W. Shirley. This book was released on 1974. Thomas Harriot, Renaissance Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700
The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 write by Dr James Dougal Fleming. This book was released on 2013-05-28. The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/discovery binary itself invented, or discovered? This volume investigates the possibility that it was invented, through a range of early modern knowledge practices, centered on the emergence of modern natural science. From Bacon to Galileo, from stagecraft to math, from martyrology to romance, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection examine the period's generation of discovery as an absolute and ostensibly neutral standard of knowledge-production. They further investigate the hermeneutic implications for the epistemological authority that tends, in modernity, still to be based on that standard. The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 is a set of attempts to think back behind discovery, considered as a decisive trope for modern knowledge.
