Before Newton

Before Newton
Author: Mordechai Feingold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1990-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521306942

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.

Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method

Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
Author: Niccolò Guicciardini
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2009
Genre: Mathematical analysis
ISBN: 0262013177

An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of mathematics.

The Geometrical Lectures of Isaac Barrow

The Geometrical Lectures of Isaac Barrow
Author: Barrow Isaac 1630-1677
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-05-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781355437147

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Distinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions

Distinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions
Author: Jason M. Rampelt
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004409149

Distinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions is an intellectual biography of John Wallis (1616-1703), professor of mathematics at Oxford for over half a century. His career spans the political tumult of the English Civil Wars, the religious upheaval of the Church of England, and the fascinating developments in mathematics and natural philosophy. His ability to navigate this terrain and advance human learning in the academic world was facilitated by his use of the Jesuit Francisco Suarez’s theory of distinctions. This Roman Catholic’s philosophy in the hands of a Protestant divine fostered an instrumentalism necessary to bridge the old and new. With this tool, Wallis brought modern science into the university and helped form the Royal Society.