Thomas Harriot

Thomas Harriot

A Life in Science

Arianrhod, Robyn

Oxford University Press Inc

05/2019

376

Dura

Inglês

9780190271855

15 a 20 dias

642

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Prologue
Chapter 1: Harriot's London
Chapter 2: Sea Fever
Chapter 3: The Science of Sea and Sky
Chapter 4: Practical Navigation (and Why the Winds Blow)
Chapter 5: America at Last
Chapter 6: Preparing for "Virginia"
Chapter 7: Roanoke Island
Chapter 8: After Roanoke
Chapter 9: War, and a New Calendar
Chapter 10: New Chances
Chapter 11: Setback
Chapter 12: Royal Refraction
Chapter 13: Spirals and Turmoil
Chapter 14: Changing of the Guard
Chapter 15: Algebra, Rainbows, and Tragedy
Chapter 16: Solving the Rainbows
Chapter 17: Conversations with Kepler
Chapter 18: Atomic Speculations
Chapter 19: Searching the Skies
Chapter 20: Gravity
Chapter 21: Mathematics, Jamestown, Guiana
Chapter 22: The End of an Era
Chapter 23: All Things Must Pass
Epilogue: Resurrecting Harriot