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Hace 3 días · Isaac Barrow, Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy (1680), sig. A3; id., A Discourse concerning the Unity of the Church (1680); Samuel Parker, Religion and Loyalty, or, A Demonstration of the Power of the Christian Church within Itself (1684), pp. 237–64; Baxter, Against the Revolt, p. 316. 74.
Hace 4 días · The Library at the W. end of Nevile's Court was begun in February 1676–7; Isaac Barrow, Master 1672–7, promoted the scheme after damage by fire to the old Library, which was already inadequate. Sir Christopher Wren was the architect and gave his services without charge.
Hace 4 días · He was also influenced by Euclid, Fermat, Huygens, Wallis, and his teacher Isaac Barrow. In 1669, he followed his teacher and was promoted to professor of mathematics and optics. Later he became interested in alchemy.
Hace 5 días · Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. Author of Before Newton: The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow (1990).
Hace 3 días · Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical ...
Hace 4 días · Robert Hooke FRS (/ h ʊ k /; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in ...
Hace 4 días · Isaac Barrow became Cambridge's first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1664. The colleges of Cambridge closed during the plague months of 1665-1666, and Newton returned to Woolsthorpe, where he did much of his serious work on optics, light, and motion.
