Before Newton The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow

Name: Before Newton The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow
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ISBN: 9780521306942

ISBN-10: 0521306949

ISBN-13: 9780521306942

Edition: 1990

Authors: Mordechai Feingold

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A comprehensive reevaluation 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…

Book details

List price: $109.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/30/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 396
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of contributors


Editor's preface



Isaac Barrow: divine, scholar, mathematician




The Optical Lectures and the foundations of the theory of optical imagery




Barrow's mathematics: between ancients and moderns




Isaac Barrow's academic milieu: Interregnum and Restoration Cambridge




Barrow as a scholar




The preacher




Isaac Barrow's library



Index