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Reprint of 1590 edition, with 28 engravings by de Bry (from John White) of Indian villages, activities, dress, etc. Great classic of Americana, fascinating for European image of America. "The Dover edition must rank as one of the finest achievements in reprinting to date."—Reprint Bulletin.
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Excellent Primary Resource
As I indicated in my title this book is an excellent primary resource for historians or students studying history. While it can be annoying to read words spelled in the older manner once you become accustomed to the spelling the book is a great read and offers good insight into the minds of the early English explorers to the Americas. Obviously one should be wary that the original authors were writing to make themselves appear nobler and the Americas to seem more ideal. ... Read more

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The short series The Historical Epistemology of Mechanics presents the long-term development of mechanical knowledge. The books in this series combine the presentation of a broad selection of relevant sources with in-depth analyses of the long-term development of mechanical knowledge focusing on the early modern period. This series is conceived in analogy to the four-volume series on The Genesis of General Relativity (BSPS 250).

The English Galileo, the first book in this series, investigates the shared knowledge of preclassical mechanics by relating the work of Thomas Harriot on motion, documented by a wealth of manuscripts, to that of Galileo and other contemporaries.

Harriot and Galileo indeed exploited the same shared knowledge resources in order to approach the same challenging objects. While the paths Harriot traces through the shared knowledge are different from Galileo’s, the work of the two scientists displays striking similarities as regards their achievements as well as the problems they were unable to solve. The study of Harriot’s parallel work thus allows the exploration of the structure of the shared knowledge of early modern mechanics, to perceive possible alternative histories, and to distinguish between individual peculiarities and shared structures of early modern mechanical reasoning. This study has received two distinguished awards, the Junior Scholar Award of the Georg Agricola Society and the Georg Uschmann Award of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.

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Although during his lifetime the bulk of his work went unpublished, Renaissance scholar Thomas Harriot is now recognized as a major contributor to many fields of learning, such as mathematics, astronomy, and botany. Harriot's theories, inventions, and discoveries were as groundbreaking as they were controversial. From his daring exploration of the New World to his scientific findings on subjects as diverse as alchemy and the moons of Jupiter, Harriot's accomplishments reflect the endless curiosity of a remarkable mind. The author draws on the diary entries of Harriot's close friend, Thomas Buckner, and Harriot's own maps, diagrams, and handwritten notes, to capture the authentic flavor of an extraordinary time, as well as the enigmatic character of a genius. Index. ... Read more

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Thomas Harriot's "Artis analyticae praxis" is an essential work in the history of algebra. To some extent it is a development work of Viete, who was among the first to use literal symbols to stand for known and unknown quantities. But it was Harriot who took the crucial step of creating an entirely symbolic algebra, so that reasoning could be reduced to a quasi-mechanical manipulation of symbols. Although his algebra was still limited in scope (he insisted. for example, on strict homogeneity, so only terms of the same powers could be added or equated to one another), it is recognizably modern. Although Harriot's book was highly influential in the development of analysis in England before Newton, it has recently become clear that the posthumously published Praxis contains only an incomplete account of Harriot's achievement: his editor substantially rearranged the work before publishing it, and omitted sections that were apparently beyond his comprehension, such as negative and complex roots of equations. The commentary included with the translation attempts to restore the Praxis to the state of Harriot's draft. Basing their work on manuscripts in the British Library, Pentworth House, and Lambeth Palace, the commentary contains some of Harriot's most novel and advanced mathematics, very little of which has been published in the past. It will provide the basis for a reassessment of the development of algebra.

The present work is the first ever English translation of the original text of Thomas Harriot’s Artis Analyticae Praxis, first published in 1631 in Latin. Thomas Harriot’s Praxis is an essential work in the history of algebra. Even though Harriot’s contemporary, Viete, was among the first to use literal symbols to stand for known and unknown quantities, it was Harriott who took the crucial step of creating an entirely symbolic algebra. This allowed reasoning to be reduced to a quasi-mechanical manipulation of symbols. Although Harriot’s algebra was still limited in scope (he insisted, for example, on strict homogeneity, so only terms of the same powers could be added or equated to one another), it is recognizably modern.

While Harriot’s book was highly influential in the development of analysis in England before Newton, it has recently become clear that the posthumously published Praxis contains only an incomplete account of Harriot’s achievement: his editor substantially rearranged the work before publishing it, and omitted sections that were apparently beyond comprehension, such as negative and complex roots of equations.

The commentary included with this translation relates the contents of the Praxis to the corresponding pages in his manuscript papers, which enables much of Harriot's most novel and advanced mathematics to be explored. This publication will become an important contribution to the history of mathematics, and it will provide the basis for a reassessment of the development of algebra.

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This volume assembles nine studies of the life and work of Thomas Harriot (1560-1621). These are based on lectures that have been given annually at Oriel College, Oxford, since 1990, by such authorities as Hugh Trevor Roper, David Quinn and John D. North. An astronomer and mathematician whose activities embraced not only science but also philosophical debate and an engagement in the early exploration of America, Harriot occupied a prominent place in intellectual and public life. He was well read in the contemporary literature of science, and his writings on algebra, his correspondence, and his early observations with the telescope, undertaken at the same time as Galileo's, brought him to the attention of leading men of science both in Britain and abroad. Recent scholarship has enhanced historians' appreciation of Harriot's achievements and of the scientific context and social milieu in which he worked, a milieu distinguished by his friendship with Walter Raleigh and the Ninth Earl of Northumberland (the "Wizard Earl" whose association with the Gunpowder Plot led to many years of imprisonment in the Tower).The contributions to this text seek to shed light on all the main aspects of Harriot's life and form a re-evaluation of one of the most gifted and intriguing figures in early modern British science. ... Read more

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The Great Invention of Algebra provides aninsight into the work of Thomas Harriot, an innovative thinker and oractitioner in several branches of the mathematical sciences, including navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry and algebra. This book focuses on one hundred and forty of these manuscript pages and concentrates on Harriot's work on the structure and solution of equations. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : François Viète, Nathanael Tarporley, Jacques Pelletier Du Mans, Thomas Harriot, Simon Stevin, Robert Hues, Pedro Nunes, Ludolph Van Ceulen, Francesco Maurolico, Federico Commandino, Luca Pacioli, Johannes Buteo, Valentin Otho, Guillaume Gosselin, John Napier, Guidobaldo Del Monte, Petrus Apianus, Pierre Forcadel, Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Francesco Barozzi, Fabrizio Mordente, Christopher Grienberger, Johannes Werner, Conrad Dasypodius, Christophorus Clavius, François D'aguilon, Scipione Del Ferro, Bernard Salignac, Gemma Frisius, Adam Ries, Pierre Aleaume, Johannes Acronius Frisius, Friedrich Risner, Michael Stifel, Raphaël Bombelli, Ludovico Ferrari, Christoff Rudolff. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : François Viète, ou François Viette, en latin , est un mathématicien français, né à Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée) en 1540 et mort à Paris le 23 février 1603. De famille bourgeoise et de formation juridique, il a été l'avocat de grandes familles protestantes, dont les Parthenay-l'Archevêque et les Rohan, avant de devenir conseiller au parlement de Rennes, sous Charles IX, puis maître des requêtes ordinaires de l'hôtel du roi sous Henri III. Maître des requêtes et déchiffreur d'Henri IV, membre du conseil du roi, il mène, parallèlement à ces charges au service de l'État, une carrière de mathématicien « amateur » qui lui vaut l'estime des grands professionnels de son temps. Inspiré par Ramus, Gosselin et Jacques Pelletier du Mans, il restaure la géométrie des anciens (Apollonius, Theon et Diophante) et prolonge les travaux d'Albategni, de Rheticus et de Regiomontanus sur les sinus et les triangles sphériques. La publication de son livre phare Isagoge Artem Analycitem ou Isagoge ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Elizabeth Báthory, Thomas Cavendish, George Buck, Annibale Carracci, Florence Maccarthy, Thomas Harriot, John Howison, Wenceslas Cobergher, James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboye, John Harington, Alonso de Ribera, Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, Flaithri Ó Maolconaire, Jacobus Arminius, Anton Praetorius, Edward Hoby, Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey, James Crichton, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Kyōgoku Takatsugu, Elize Hele, Domenico Tintoretto, Marietta Robusti, Gilbert Gifford, Percival Levett, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Matthew Kellison, William Fulbecke, Anne Vavasour, Peter Chamberlen, Hugh Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery, Charls Butler, Francis Vere, Felice Anerio, Sir Richard Hutton, Constantino Cajetan, Hugh Myddelton, Ishida Mitsunari, Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, John Bois, William Brade, Hwang Sin, Mark Ridley, Dominicus Custos, Nicol Dalgleish, Hieronymus Praetorius, Gaspard Bauhin, Jedidiah Norzi, Naoe Kanetsugu, Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes, Ōkubo Tadataka, Charles Butler, Henry Airay, William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Wilhelm Fabry, Charles Iii de Croÿ, Fabrizio Santafede, Robert Wright, Christopher Middleton, Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Martin Fotherby, François Gravé Du Pont, Richard Kilby, Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, Flaminio Ponzio, William Ward, Antonio Viviani, Antoine Arnauld, Baltazar Dvorničić Napuly, Antonio Circignani, Katarzyna Ostrogska, Krystyna Radziwiłł, Harada Nobutane, Kabayama Hisataka, Bartolomeo Carducci, Álvarez de Paz, John Minsheu, John Pitts, Thomas Abington, Andrea Commodi, Jobst of Limburg, Jan Gruter, Claudio Ridolfi, Guido Pepoli, Carlo Di Castellamonte, William Filby, Girolamo Da Ponte, Paolo Emilio Sfondrati, Sir Richard Molyneux, Diego Polo ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=126090 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Richard Francis Burton, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Thomas Harriot, Thomas William Rhys Davids, Robert Lowth, Abraham Wheloc, Whitley Stokes, Henry Liddell, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, Charles Kay Ogden, Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon, Hensleigh Wedgwood, Frederick Markham Bailey, Robert Scott, John Lyons, Robert Caesar Childers, Moses Gaster, Thomas Francis Wade, Malcolm Guthrie, James Redhouse, Gordon Rugg, Ivan Van Sertima, Archibald Sayce. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Le capitaine Sir Richard Francis Burton, Chevalier Commandeur de l'Ordre de Saint-Michel et Saint-George (KCMG), né le 19 mars 1821 à Torquay et mort le 20 octobre 1890 à Trieste, est un érudit et polymathe britannique. Il est tour à tour officier militaire, escrimeur, explorateur, écrivain et poète, traducteur, linguiste, orientaliste, maître soufi, ethnologue, diplomate et expérimentateur passionné de la plupart des perversions humaines. Il mène une vie romanesque et voyage inlassablement sur tous les continents. Il parle 29 langues et 11 dialectes et, maîtrisant l'arabe, il est l'un des premiers Occidentaux à atteindre la Mecque, déguisé en pèlerin. Il en rapporte notamment des croquis et des mesures de la Kaaba. Au cours de sa carrière militaire et diplomatique, il sert d'abord en Inde en qualité de capitaine de l'armée de la Compagnie anglaise des Indes orientales, puis brièvement durant la Guerre de Crimée. Il dirige ensuite l'expédition de la Société Royale de Géographie qui devait aboutir à la découverte du lac Tanganyika en 1858. Il devient plus tard consul de Grande-Bretagne à Fernando Po de 1861 à 1864, à Santos de 1865 à 1869, à Damas de 1869 à 1871 et enfin à Trieste de 1871 jusqu'à sa mort en 1890. En plus de ses f...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Benjamin Franklin, Pocahontas, John Carteret, Thomas Gage, Thomas Harriot, Johannes Kelpius, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Myles Standish, John White, Richard Grenville, Jeffery Amherst, Pieter Stuyvesant, William Bradford, Henri Bouquet, George de Carteret, Johannes de Laet, William Berkeley, Cornelis Evertsen, John Yeamans, William Petty Fitzmaurice, William Penn, Anne Bradstreet, Pontiac, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Benjamin Thompson, Adriaen Block, John Winthrop, William Drummond, Edmund Andros, William Howe, Deborah Franklin, Samuel Stephens, Liste Des Gouverneurs Coloniaux de New York, Jeremiah Theus, Benjamin Furly, Anthony Colve, Pères Pèlerins, Richard Montgomery, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Jonathan Edwards, William Stoughton, Pierre Minuit, Hannah Callowhill Penn, Benjamin Berringer, Johan Printz, Charles Carroll D'annapolis, Philippe de Carteret, John Berkeley, Sebastiaen Jansen Krol, Robert de Carteret, William Johnson, Thomas Hooker, Edward Taylor, Cecilius Calvert, Directeurs de La Nouvelle-Néerlande, Jacob Binckes, Nathaniel Bacon, Augustine Washington, Adriaen Van Der Donck, George Calvert, Jane Randolph Jefferson, Willem Kieft, Thomas Rolfe, Richard Bennett, Gouverneur, Wouter Van Twiller, Willem Verhulst, Peregrine White, Robert Barclay, Opchanacanough, Pihi, Henry Gladwin, Sarah Rapelje, Cornelis Jacobszoon May, Thomas Hutchinson, Powhatan, Leonard Calvert, John Wentworth, John Rolfe, Francis Bernard, John Bolling. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Benjamin Franklin (17 janvier 1706 à Boston - 17 avril 1790 à Philadelphie) est l'une des plus illustres figures de l'histoire américaine, à la fois écrivain, physicien et diplomate. D'abord imprimeur à Philadelphie, il se fait connaître par...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Robert Hues, Brajendranath De, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Hatton, Thomas Elyot, Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot, Theodore Hook, William Beresford, William Rider, James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, George Sandys, Daniel Lysons, Sir William Brownlow, 1st Baronet, Augustine Scriven, John Ball, Oliver Lloyd, Henry Ferne, James Hurdis, Joseph Bowles. Excerpt:The Rt Rev Augustine Scriven (1852 1916) was an eminent Anglican priest in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth. He was born in Spernall , Sambourne , Warwickshire and educated at St Mary Hall, Oxford and ordained in 1875. After curacies at Kirkham and Frindsbury he held incumbencies at Martinhoe and St Peter, Rochester . In 1884 he became Archdeacon of Vancouver a post he held until his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of British Columbia in 1915. Less than a year later he died on 21 July 1916. Church of England titles References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Brajendranath De Brajendranath De , esq. , ICS , (Bengali : ) was a civil servant and orientalist . Formative years In Calcutta and Lucknow He was born in Bhowanipore in Calcutta . His father's family, originally from Uttar Rarh in Bengal, belonged to the newly emerging business community of Calcutta. From his memoir it emerges that his paternal ancestors had lived in Bhowanipore from the end of the eighteenth century, and from the accounts of his family members his ancestors had arrived from the other side of garhrer maath (modern day maidan ), which means that they had crossed from the west of the Hooghly River to the newly built segments of Calcutta. His grandfather, Prankrishna De, worked for a mercantile firm of the city, and for sometime owned a few properties in Bhowanipore, all of w... ... Read more

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Title: Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Author: Peter Dear
Publication: Albion (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: North American Conference on British Studies
Volume: 34Issue: 2Page: 305(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Blaise Pascal, François Viète, Isaac Newton, Nathanael Tarporley, Christian Huygens, Thomas Harriot, Simon Stevin, Alexander Anderson, Isaac Barrow, Philippe de La Hire, Giovanni Camillo Glorioso, John Napier, Henry Briggs, Paul Guldin, Edmund Gunter, Christopher Grienberger, John Protheroe, Johannes Geysius, William Brouncker, John Craig, John Collins, John Keill, John Newton. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : François Viète, ou François Viette, en latin , est un mathématicien français, né à Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée) en 1540 et mort à Paris le 23 février 1603. De famille bourgeoise et de formation juridique, il a été l'avocat de grandes familles protestantes, dont les Parthenay-l'Archevêque et les Rohan, avant de devenir conseiller au parlement de Rennes, sous Charles IX, puis maître des requêtes ordinaires de l'hôtel du roi sous Henri III. Maître des requêtes et déchiffreur d'Henri IV, membre du conseil du roi, il mène, parallèlement à ces charges au service de l'État, une carrière de mathématicien « amateur » qui lui vaut l'estime des grands professionnels de son temps. Inspiré par Ramus, Gosselin et Jacques Pelletier du Mans, il restaure la géométrie des anciens (Apollonius, Theon et Diophante) et prolonge les travaux d'Albategni, de Rheticus et de Regiomontanus sur les sinus et les triangles sphériques. La publication de son livre phare Isagoge Artem Analycitem ou Isagoge marque en 1591 le début de la révolution algébrique qui, poursuivie par Thomas Harriot, William Oughtred, Albert Girard et René Descartes, fondera les notations de l'algèbre contemporaine. Viète est le premier mathématicien à noter les paramètres d'une équation par des symboles. Il fonde ainsi l'algèbre nouvelle ou « logis...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Isaac Newton, Nathanael Tarporley, William Whiston, Thomas Harriot, Robert Hues, Joannes de Sacrobosco, Isaac Barrow, William Hopkins, Mary Cartwright, Thomas Simpson, Douglas Hartree, Eaton Hodgkinson, John Protheroe, Robert de Chester, Joseph Raphson, Walter Warner, Emery Molyneux, John Edensor Littlewood, Robert Smith, William Burnside, William Emerson, William Tutte, Raymond Paley, John Collins, Philippa Fawcett, Dusa Mcduff, Paul Seymour, William Timothy Gowers, Richard V. Southwell, James H. Wilkinson, Alfred Kempe, William Bourne, Ben Joseph Green, Frederick Rowbottom, Herbert James Godwin, Daniel Pedoe. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Isaac Newton (4 janvier 1643 G - 31 mars 1727 G, ou 25 décembre 1642 J - 20 mars 1727 J) est un philosophe, mathématicien, physicien, alchimiste et astronome anglais. Figure emblématique des sciences, il est surtout reconnu pour sa théorie de la gravitation universelle et la création, en concurrence avec Leibniz, du calcul infinitésimal. En optique, il a développé une théorie de la couleur basée sur l'observation selon laquelle un prisme décompose la lumière blanche en un spectre visible. Il a aussi inventé le télescope à réflexion composé d'un miroir primaire concave appelé télescope de Newton. En mécanique, il a établi les trois lois universelles du mouvement qui sont en fait des principes à la base de la grande théorie de Newton concernant le mouvement des corps, théorie que l'on nomme aujourd'hui Mécanique newtonienne ou encore Mécanique classique. En mathématiques, Newton partage avec Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz la découverte du calcul infinitésimal. Il est aussi connu pour la généralisation du théorème du binôme et l'invention dite de la méthode de Ne...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more