Thomas Harriot : an Elizabethan man of science

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface The Thomas Harriot lectures, 1990-99 Introduction: Thomas Harriot. An Elizabethan man of science 1 Thomas Harriot and the problem of America 2 Thomas Harriot and the Northumberland household 3 Harriot's physician: Theodore de Mayerne 4 The natural philosophy of Thomas Harriot 5 Thomas Harriot and the field of knowledge in the English Renaissance 6 Instruments, mathematics, and natural knowledge: Thomas Harriot's place on the map of learning 7 Harriot's algebra: reputation and reality 8 Stars and atoms 9 Harriot, Oxford, and twentieth-century historiography 10 The religion of Thomas Harriot Appendices Appendix A: The possible portraits of Thomas Harriot Appendix Β: Thomas Harriot's manuscripts Appendix C: A bibliography of secondary sources relating to the life and work of Thomas Harriot, published since 1974 Index