Thomas Harriot : an Elizabethan man of science

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