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A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (Rosenwald Collection Reprint Series) by Thomas Harriot, 1972-06-01 The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot's Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by Matthias Schemmel, 2008-11-07 Sourcebook for the Study of Thomas Harriot (The Development of science) by John William Shirley, 1981-06 Thomas Harriot, Science Pioneer by Ralph Staiger, 1998-09-21 Thomas Harriot's Doctrine of Triangular Numbers: the `Magisteria Magna' (Heritage of European Mathematics) by Janet Beery and Jacqueline Stedall, 2008-11-15 Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis: An English Translation with Commentary (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) by Muriel Seltman, Robert Goulding, 2007-06-08 Thomas Harriot The Greate Invention of Algebra: Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations (Mathematics) by Jacqueline Stedall, 2003-09-04 Thomas Harriot: Renaissance Scientist Thomas Harriot: Renaissance Scientist by John William Shirley, 1983-10-20 Traces of Thomas Hariot by Muriel Rukeyser, 1972-01-06 Mathématicien Du Xvie Siècle: François Viète, Nathanael Tarporley, Jacques Pelletier Du Mans, Thomas Harriot, Simon Stevin, Robert Hues (French Edition) 1560 Births: Elizabeth Báthory, Thomas Cavendish, George Buck, Annibale Carracci, Florence Maccarthy, Thomas Harriot, John Howison Linguiste Britannique: Richard Francis Burton, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Thomas Harriot, Thomas William Rhys Davids, Robert Lowth (French Edition)

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1. Thomas Harriot
   Thomas Harriot (ca. 15601621) Portrait sometimes said to be of Thomas Harriot in 1620, British Museum engraving by Francis Delaram. Reproduced from Staiger, R.C., Thomas Harriot, Science Pioneer, New York Clarion Books, 1998. (  
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   Extractions: Portrait sometimes said to be of Thomas Harriot in 1620, British Museum engraving by Francis Delaram. Reproduced from Staiger, R.C., Thomas Harriot, Science Pioneer, New York: Clarion Books, 1998. (Other sources make this a portrait of the Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617); to be sorted out...). Born in 1560, Harriot spend his life under the patronage of wealthy nobles, first by Lord Walter Raleigh upon graduating from Oxford, and then starting in 1593 by Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. Harriot kept regular correspondence with other scientists and mathematicians, especially in England but also in mainland Europe, notably with Kepler . For unknown reasons, Harriot refrained from publishing most of his scientific work, with the exception of his observations as scientist to Lord Raleigh's 1585 expedition to the New World, published in 1588. He however left many notebooks of scientific observations, which were only uncovered much later in the late eighteenth century, and not properly studied for another 100 years thereafter. Harriot's early telescopic observations rival those of Galileo and contemporaries. Starting in July 1609 he observed the moon regularly, apparently for the purpose of determining the distance of the Sun using

2. Thomas Harriot
   You are in Museum of History Hall of North and South Americans Thomas Harriot. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. Six volumes, New York  
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3. Harriot
   Thomas Harriot. Thomas Harriot was a mathematician and astronomer who founded theEnglish school of algebra. He is described in 10 by Fauvel and Goulding as  
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   Extractions: Thomas Harriot was a mathematician and astronomer who founded the English school of algebra. He is described in [10] by Fauvel and Goulding as:- ... the greatest mathematician that Oxford has produced ... yet his name has only recently become widely known, and even now his achievements are not fully appreciated by most mathematicians. We know very little of Harriot's youth. In fact all that is known is that on Friday 20 December 1577 he matriculated at the University of Oxford with an entry in the official records giving his age as seventeen, his father as a plebeian, and his birthplace Oxfordshire. It is from this record that his date of birth is deduced to be 1560 and we know that his father was a "commoner" but the very fact that Harriot was entering Oxford means that it is unlikely that he came from the poorest classes. Despite extensive searches of the Oxfordshire records, no further information concerning his birth or parentage has been found (although a number of possible relatives have been identified). As an undergraduate at Oxford, Harriot was a student at St Mary's Hall. He became friends with Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Allen, both lecturers at the university, but not at St Mary's Hall. Harriot graduated in 1580 and went to London. It is not clear exactly what he did in his first few years there but, probably from late 1583, he entered Sir Walter Raleigh's service. Hakluyt, dedicating a preface to Raleigh in February 1587, wrote (see for example [4]):-

4. Thomas Harriot
   Thomas Harriot. 1560 1621.  
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5. Thomas Harriot's Notes On Motion
   Thomas Harriot s Notes on Motion. Selected parts of the manuscripts ofThomas Harriot preserved by the British Library. A presentation  
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   Extractions: The work of the English mathematician and philosopher Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) is amazingly broad, ranging from the concern with linguistic and ethnological questions to the theory of algebraic equations. In particular, topics of practical mathematics and natural philosophy that concerned also Galileo, such as fortification, shipbuilding, astronomy, optics, and mechanics, play a central role in Harriot’s work. However, unlike his famous Italian contemporary, Harriot did not publish any of his scientific results, the only exception being a small report on his voyage to the New World that he undertook as versatile expert in the service of his first patron, Sir Walter Ralegh. Harriot’s work therefore has to be reconstructed from his manuscripts. This fact has considerably hampered Harriot’s reception, not only by his contemporaries, but also in the history of science. Here, for the first time, a large selection from Harriot’s manuscripts is made openly accessible through an electronic presentation: Harriot’s notes on motion. Harriot left about 8,000 folio pages mainly containing his working notes and only few pages prepared for presentation (Add MSS 6782 – 6789 in der British Library and HMC 240, 241 in Petworth House, Sussex). The selection presented here contains about 350 folio pages preserved in the British Library. The folios have been chosen in a survey of the total of 8,000 pages by rough analysis of their contents in the attempt to produce a collection as complete as possible.

6. Explorations: Harriot
   Thomas Harriot 1560 1621. Biography. Born in England and educated at Oxford, ThomasHarriot was employed as a young man by the explorer Sir Walter Ralegh.  
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   Extractions: Biography Born in England and educated at Oxford, Thomas Harriot was employed as a young man by the explorer Sir Walter Ralegh. In 1584 he accompanied Ralegh's New World expedition to Roanoke, where, as a naturalist, he collaborated with painter John White to study the landscape and its inhabitants. Although Harriot must have kept notebooks, none of them survives. The existing record of his observations is A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588), an optimistic account of native culture that seems to have been written at Ralegh's direction. Although this work lacks candor Harriot avoids mentioning how the colonists fled a brutal storm by ship it does acknowledge how the Indians were gradually devastated by disease and provides detailed descriptions of these native peoples in their soon-to-be-changing natural environment. Explorations Among the English accounts of the New World, Harriot's Brief and True Report gains distinction from its association with the famous "Lost Colony" at Roanoke Island, a mystery which paradoxically helped to give later colonists, and citizens of the American republic, a way of engaging imaginatively with wilderness. A landscape haunted by English ghosts is, after all, a landscape that ghost-loving English men and women can connect with. 1. Harriot's

7. HotBot Web Search For Hariot Thomas
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8. THOMAS GENEALOGY 1815 - 1828
   Catherine born 1831. 1828 RED RIVER. harriot thomas born 1828 died May14, 1850 St. Andrews, Red River. 1828 RED RIVER. Marguerite Thomas  
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   Extractions: 1815 RED RIVER, ST. JOHN ANGLICAN CHURCH, NORTH WEST TERRITORIES (II)-Thomas Thomas-(5) (ID # 4438) born about 1796 North West, died July 15, 1836 St. John Church, Red River, listed as a principle settler Red River. ID # 4549, 4902 and 4438 likely the same person or all are sons of Thomas Thomas (2) or Thomas Thomas (1). See 1808 and 1821. Married 1st Married 2nd marriage March 21, 1821 Red River to Sarah Indian born 1800 Red River. Other records suggest married by church, March 30, 1821, at Red River Settlement Sarah an Indian baptised November 22, 1822, married by J.W., witness is James Monkman and George Harbridge. SIX CHILDREN ARE RECORDED: (III)-William Thomas (6) born 1824? (baptised St. John's Anglican Church, Red River November 10, 1822) see 1845 (III)-Sarah Thomas baptised November 10, 1822 St. John Church Red River. (III)-Catherine Thomas (f), baptised November 10, 1822 St. Paul, Red River 1822 married 1829 St. John, Red River John Bunn

9. Discussion List For Class English 310/510 (engl310-l): Harriot
   rocketmail.com Subject harriot thomas Harriot wouldn t have sounded half as arrogantas he did had he merely related his experiences with a little respect.  
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   Extractions: Date: bon@rocketmail.com > Subject: Harriot Thomas Harriot wouldn't have sounded half as arrogant as he did had he merely related his experiences with a little respect. For Harriot to write that the natives, "upon due consideration shall find our manner of knowledges and crafts to exceed theirs in perfection. . . by so much the more it is probable that they should desire our freindship and love, and have the greater respect for pleasing and obeying us. . ." and for Harriot to say this in the name of Christianity is troubling(79). It seems to me that the natives Harriot basically described as uncivilized and ignorant were doing alright with their simple houses and rudimentary tools and fighting strategies prior to his arrival. Furthermore, it's embarrasing to think that Harriot and his men left each group of natives with both disease and the misconception that the Englishmen were gods. Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

10. Thomas Harriot --  Encyclopædia Britannica
    Cite this article. thomas harriot. born 1560, Oxford, Eng. MLA style " thomas harriot." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.  
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11. Thomas Harriot, Trumpter Of Roanoke
    thomas harriot, TRUMPTER OF ROANOKE. Explorer, navigational expert, mathematician, scientist and astronomer thomas harriot was born in Oxford about 1560. In 1577 he entered St.  
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    Extractions: Explorer, navigational expert, mathematician, scientist and astronomer Thomas Harriot was born in Oxford about 1560. In 1577 he entered St. Mary's Hall (a subsidiary of Oriel College) and in 1580, shortly after he was graduated B.A., he joined the household of Walter Ralegh. There he prepared Arcticon , a navigational text which has not survived. He also encouraged Ralegh to follow in the footsteps of Sir Humphrey Gilbert in exploring and colonizing the New World. After Gilbert's death in 1583, Ralegh, with Harriot's help, prepared for an expedition to America. Although Ralegh hoped to command the 1584 voyage, Queen Elizabeth would not permit him to do so. Harriot may have gone on this voyage because there is some evidence that it was at this time that he learned the Algonquian language. By the summer of 1586, when Sir Francis Drake arrived, the colonists were in dire straits. Supplies were low and the Indians unfriendly. He gave them a ship; however, a storm forced it out to sea. He then offered the colonists passage home. In their haste to depart much of the work of Harriot and White was lost. Although Ralegh sent a second colony to Roanoke Island in 1587, he also had a colonial venture in Ireland where Harriot joined him and lived at the Abbey of Molanna near Youghal in County Waterford. There he prepared for publication the first English treatise on the new world.

12. Harriot, Thomas
    harriot, thomas. Note the creators of the Galileo Project and this catalogue cannot answer email on genealogical Muriel Rukeyser, The Traces of thomas harriot, (New York, 1971  
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    Extractions: Harriot, Thomas Note: the creators of the Galileo Project and this catalogue cannot answer email on genealogical questions. 1. Dates Born: Oxfordshire, c.1560 Died: London, 2 July 1621 Dateinfo: Birth Uncertain Lifespan: 2. Father Occupation: Unknown The only information, in the records at Oxford, is that Harriot's father was a commoner (plebeian). No information on financial status. 3. Nationality Birth: English Career: Englsih Death: English 4. Education Schooling: Oxford Oxford University, St. Mary Hall, 1577-80; B.A., 1580. 5. Religion Affiliation: Anglican, Heterodox During his lifetime there were all sorts of stories about Harriot's atheism, centering on the charge that he challenged the universal authority of Scripture. There seems to be no doubt that he held atomistic views, which had the potential at least to be in conflict with orthodoxy. Nevertheless, I list Heterodoxy with grave doubts. Neither I nor anyone else has been able to find solid evidence to support the rumors. The rumors themselves began with a Jesuit diatribe of 1592 against the religious order in England; that hardly increases my confidence in the truth of the rumors. 6. Scientific Disciplines

13. Harriot's Manuscripts
    thomas harriot s manuscripts. thomas harriot died in 1621. The book, thomasharriot and his associates was privately printed in London in 1900.  
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    Extractions: Thomas Harriot died in 1621. He had published no mathematical or astronomical works during his lifetime, but he left his papers in reasonably good order and set out his wishes in his will that they should be properly edited and published. This article tells the story of how 380 years have passed since Harriot's death yet, despite many attempts, his dying wishes have not yet been properly carried out. The story of how knowledge of Thomas Harriot's mathematical genius has come down to us is related in several of the references, see for example [1], [2], or [4]. We quote from the preface of [4]:- It is now more than years since Thomas Harriot on his deathbed considered his fame and reputation. Alas! Though recognised by his contemporaries as England's most profound mathematician, most imaginative and methodical experimental scientist, and first of all Englishmen to make a telescope and turn it on the heavens, Harriot had not prepared his works for the use of future generations. The thousands upon thousands of sheets of mathematics and of scientific observations which had occupied most of his waking hours were lost to sight, buried in private archives. Early discussions in the newly founded Royal Society of London centred around the search for Harriot's lost papers, but inquiries made from to proved fruitless, and it was finally assumed that they had been destroyed.

14. Harriot
    Biography of thomas harriot (15601621) thomas harriot. Born 1560 in Oxford, England thomas harriot was a mathematician and astronomer who founded the English school of algebra  
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    Extractions: Thomas Harriot was a mathematician and astronomer who founded the English school of algebra. He is described in [10] by Fauvel and Goulding as:- ... the greatest mathematician that Oxford has produced ... yet his name has only recently become widely known, and even now his achievements are not fully appreciated by most mathematicians. We know very little of Harriot's youth. In fact all that is known is that on Friday 20 December 1577 he matriculated at the University of Oxford with an entry in the official records giving his age as seventeen, his father as a plebeian, and his birthplace Oxfordshire. It is from this record that his date of birth is deduced to be 1560 and we know that his father was a "commoner" but the very fact that Harriot was entering Oxford means that it is unlikely that he came from the poorest classes. Despite extensive searches of the Oxfordshire records, no further information concerning his birth or parentage has been found (although a number of possible relatives have been identified). As an undergraduate at Oxford, Harriot was a student at St Mary's Hall. He became friends with Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Allen, both lecturers at the university, but not at St Mary's Hall. Harriot graduated in 1580 and went to London. It is not clear exactly what he did in his first few years there but, probably from late 1583, he entered Sir Walter Raleigh's service. Hakluyt, dedicating a preface to Raleigh in February 1587, wrote (see for example [4]):-

15. Thomas Harriot --  Encyclopædia Britannica
    harriot, thomas Encyclopædia Britannica Article. , harriot, thomasmathematician, astronomer, and investigator of the natural world.  
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16. Harriot's Moon Drawings
    Vincenzo Viviani. thomas harriot. Christopher Clavius. Ludivic delle Colombe  
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17. Harriot, Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
    The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. harriot, thomas. (hâr´t) (KEY) , 1560–1621, English mathematician and astronomer.  
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18. Harriot, Thomas
    encyclopediaEncyclopedia harriot, thomas, hâr Eut Pronunciation Key.harriot, thomas , 1560–1621, English mathematician and astronomer.  
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    Extractions: Harriot, Thomas E u t] Pronunciation Key Harriot, Thomas , English mathematician and astronomer. He was tutor to Sir Walter Raleigh, who sent him in 1585 to Virginia as surveyor with Sir Richard Grenville. Returning to England, Harriot wrote A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588), one of the earliest known large-scale statistical surveys. He made valuable contributions to algebra, introducing new symbols and notation. His Artis analyticae praxis appeared in 1631. See biography by M. Rukeyser (1971). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia,

19. Harriot, Thomas
    harriot, thomas 15601621, English mathematician and astronomer. He was tutor to Sir Walter Raleigh, who sent him in 1585 to Virginia as surveyor with Sir Richard Grenville. Returning to England  
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20. Harriot, Thomas In UK Directory: Library: Mathematicians
    harriot, thomas Contains resources on the life and work of mathematicianthomas harriot. Web Search harriot, thomas. Contains resources  
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