BEFORE NEWTON by Mordechai Feingold (Editor) ( 9780511983559 )

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Title:

BEFORE NEWTON
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ISAAC BARROW

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ISBN 10:

0511983557

ISBN 13:

9780511983559

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 November, 2011

Description:

A comprehensive re-evaluation of Isaac Barrow (1630-1677), one of the more prominent and intriguing of all seventeenth-century men of science.

Synopsis:

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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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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Non-returnable

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