Before Newton : the Life and Times of Isaac Barrow
Mordechai Feingold (Editor)
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.
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List of contributors; Editor's preface; 1. Isaac Barrow: divine, scholar, mathematician Mordechai Feingold; 2. The Optical Lectures and the foundations of the theory of optical imagery Alan E. Shapiro; 3. Barrow's mathematics: between ancients and moderns Michael S. Mahoney; 4. Isaac Barrow's academic milieu: Interregnum and Restoration Cambridge John Gascoigne; 5. Barrow as a scholar Anthony Grafton; 6. The preacher Irène Simon; 7. Isaac Barrow's library Mordechai Feingold; Index.
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