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1st Edition

Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

Edited By Robert Fox Copyright 2023
238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: Thomas Harriot. Science, Mathematics, Exploration in the English Renaissance

Robert Fox

  1. The Certain and Full Discovery of the World. Thomas Harriot and Richard Hakluyt

    2. David Harris Sacks

  2. Thomas Harriot in the Twenty-First Century. Twenty-Five Years of the Harriot Lecture

    3. Stephen Clucas

  3. "Our Learned Countryman". Thomas Harriot and the Emergence of Mathematical Community in Seventeenth-Century England

    4. Philip Beeley

  4. Thomas Harriot. The World’s First Ethnographer?

    5. Mark Horton

  5. Harriot, Hakluyt, and the Briefe and true report…of Virginia

    6. Daniel Carey

     

  6. "Both to Love and Fear us". How to Found an Empire in Harriot’s Day

    7. Felipe Fernández-Armesto

  7. Thomas Harriot’s Magnificent Book. Creating Europe’s First Illustrated Exploration Narrative

    8. Larry Tise

  8. Writing about Thomas Harriot

Robyn Arianrhod

A Bibliography of Secondary Sources Relating to the Life and Work of Thomas Harriot Published since 2010

Polly Allingham

Biography

Robert Fox is Emeritus Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and an honorary fellow of Oriel College. His main research interests are in European science, technology, and medicine since the eighteenth century. His recent books include The Savant and the State. Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (2012) and Science without Frontiers. Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870-1940 (2016).

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