Before Newton: The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521306949 ISBN 13: 9780521306942

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

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 among his scientific, philological, and religious worldviews in an attempt to convey the complexity of the seventeenth-century culture that gave rise to Isaac Barrow, a breed of polymath that would become increasingly rare with the advent of modern science.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Mordechai Feingold is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521306949
• ISBN 13: 9780521306942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Feingold Mordechai