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THOMAS HARRIOT AND HIS WORLD

Frontispiece Titlepage of Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiae Anglico scripta sermone Thoma Hariot, Latin edition of Harriots A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, published by Theodor de Bry (Frankfurt, 1590). By permission of the Rare Book Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

Thomas Harriot and His World

Mathematics, Exploration, and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England

Edited by

ROBERT FOX
University of Oxford, UK

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Taylor & Francis

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Thomas Harriot and his world : mathematics, exploration, and natural philosophy in early modern England.

1. Harriot, Thomas, 15601621. 2. MathematicsEnglandHistory17th century. 3. PhysicsEnglandHistory17th century. 4. Discoveries in geographyBritishHistory17th century.

I. Fox, Robert, 1938

509.2-dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thomas Harriot and his world : mathematics, exploration, and natural philosophy in early modern England / edited by Robert Fox.

p. cm.

Papers based on the Harriot lectures delivered at Oriel College between 2000 and 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7546-6960-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Harriot, Thomas, 15601621. 2. ScientistsGreat BritainBiography. 3. MathematicsEnglandHistory16th century. 4. ScienceEnglandHistory16th century. I. Fox, Robert, 1938 II. Oriel College (University of Oxford)

Q143.H36T46 2012

509.2dc23

[B]

2011047283

ISBN 9780754669609 (hbk)

Dedicated to Max, Lord Egremont

With the gratitude of the Provost and Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford and of all students of Thomas Harriot

Contents

Robert Fox

Jon V. Pepper

Robert Goulding

Jacqueline Stedall

Ian Maclean

Matthias Schemmel

John Henry

Stephen Pumfrey

Mark Nicholls

Pascal Brioist

Larry E. Tise

Charles Fantazzi

Diccon Swan

Daniel Jon Mitchell

Frontispiece: Titlepage of Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiae. Anglico scripta sermone Thoma Hariot, Latin edition of Harriots A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, published by Theodor de Bry (Frankfurt, 1590). By permission of the Rare Book Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

Pascal Brioist is Professor at the University Franois Rabelais, Tours and is a member of the universitys Centre dtudes suprieures de la Renaissance. From the time of his PhD at the European Institute on Intellectual circles in London from 1580 to 1680, he has been interested in Thomas Harriots manuscripts, especially those concerning warfare. He is also a Leonardo da Vinci scholar and in 201011 was in charge of an exhibition on Leonardos plan for a palace in Romorantin commissioned by Franois I.

Charles Fantazzi is Thomas Harriot Emeritus Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University. His chief research interests and writings are focused on Juan Luis Vives, Erasmus and Renaissance Latin poetry.

Robert Fox is Emeritus Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and an honorary fellow of Oriel College, where since 1990 he has organized the Colleges annual Thomas Harriot Lecture. He spent the spring semester of 2009 at East Carolina University as Whichard Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences.

Robert Goulding is Associate Professor in Liberal Studies and History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. He has presented papers at the Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar on Harriots mathematics and optics, and is currently working on a book-length study of Harriots optical manuscripts.

John Henry is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Edinburgh. Specializing in, amongst other things, the history of matter theory, and in particular in the atomic revival of the late Renaissance, his first engagement with Harriot was an attempt to assess the nature and extent of his atomism. Since then he has maintained an interest in Harriot and his contemporaries in English science, from Francis Bacon to Walter Warner.

Ian Maclean is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Oxford and is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College. He has published widely on intellectual life in the late Renaissance and has held visiting professorships in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA.

Daniel Jon Mitchell is a teaching consultant at the University of Hong Kong. He researches the development of nineteenth-century physical science and its instrumentation. His paper Reflecting nature: chemistry and comprehensibility in the Gabriel Lippmanns physical method of photographing colours won the inaugural Notes and Records of the Royal Society essay prize.

Mark Nicholls is Librarian and Tutor at St Johns College, Cambridge and is former President of the College. He has published extensively on the court politics of late Elizabethan and early Stuart England, including studies of the Gunpowder Plot and the political career of the Ninth Earl of Northumberland, and a biography of Sir Walter Ralegh, written with Penry Williams.

Jon V. Pepper is an honorary research fellow in the mathematics department of University College London. In addition to that of Harriot, he is also interested in the work of Archimedes and in aspects of nineteenth-century mathematics.

Stephen Pumfrey is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at Lancaster University. His research on practitioners such as Thomas Harriot, Edward Wright, Thomas Digges and above all William Gilbert has recently broadened into a study of science and patronage in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He has been a regular participant in the Harriot Seminar and was proud to give Oriel Colleges Thomas Harriot Lecture in 2006.

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