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Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : United States of America Subject : biography, maths and statistics English mathematician, physicist, classicist, and Anglican divine, one of the intellectual luminaries of the Caroline period. Barrow was born in London in October 1630. His father, a linen-draper to Charles I, sent him to Charterhouse as a day boy, but there he achieved little beyond gaining a reputation as a bully, and he was removed to Felstead School. In 1643 he was entered for Peterhouse, Cambridge, where an uncle was a fellow, but by the time that he went up to university in 1645 his uncle had moved to Trinity College and it was there that Barrow entered as a pensioner. He received his BA in 1648 and a year later was elected a fellow of Cambridge. In 1655 his former tutor, Dr Dupont, retired from the regius professorship of Greek; he wished Barrow, his former pupil, to succeed him. But the appointment was not offered to Barrow. His reputation then was more for mathematics than classics, and he was very…
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Full text Article Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : United States of America Subject : biography, maths and statistics English mathematician, physicist, classicist, and Anglican divine, one of the intellectual luminaries of the Caroline period. Barrow was born in London in October 1630. His father, a linen-draper to Charles I, sent him to…
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English classical scholar, theologian, and mathematician Isaac Barrow was the teacher of Isaac Newton. He developed a method of determining tangents that closely approached the methods of calculus, and he first recognized that what became known as the processes of integration and differentiation in…
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Isaac Newton worked out the laws of gravity and...
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Full text Article Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)

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