Sir Jonas Moore

Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science

Frances Willmoth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1993
The Boydell Press (Verlag)
978-0-85115-321-6 (ISBN)

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A life of Moore, 17th-century mathematician and scientist involved in the draining of the fens, the building of the mole at Tangier, and the foundation of the Royal Observatory.

Sir Jonas Moore (1617-79) - practical mathematician, teacher, author, surveyor, cartographer, Ordnance Officer, courtier and patron of astronomy -had a remarkable career, and was one of the first to make a substantial fortune frommathematical practice. Dr Willmoth follows his progress to a knighthood, membership of the Royal Society, and favour at the court of Charles II; she assesses his contribution to the draining of the Great Level (under Cornelius Vermuyden) and the building of the Mole at Tangier, and records how, as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, he became a patron of the new Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Her researches illustrate the changing views of mathematics at the time, and reinforce the argument for the 17th-century `scientific revolution'.
FRANCES WILLMOTH is currently working on an edition of John Flamsteed's correspondence. [East Anglian] Study of the life and varied career of SirJonas Moore (1617-79) - practical mathematician, teacher, author, surveyor, cartographer, Ordnance Officer, courtier and patron of astronomy - who was involved in the draining of the Great Level in the Fens.

Introduction: "A Good Mathematician and a Good Fellowe". Part 1 Moore's social and intellectual origins - teachers and patrons: ancestry and education; local patrons; employment and taking up mathematics. Part 2 Founding a mathematical career: William Oughtred; "Mathematicall More" - the author and his books. Part 3 "His Rise" - surveying the Fens: projectors and "giddy projects"; Moore's role - mathematics and surveying. Part 4 The Restoration and a route to royal service: mathematical practice in Restoration London; Tangier; the Surveyorship of the Ordnance. Part 5 "The genius of all arts" - patronage of the mathematical sciences: the Royal Society and the Royal Observatory; "The New Systeme of the mathematicks".

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.1993
Zusatzinfo	18 b/w illus.
Verlagsort	Woodbridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-85115-321-6 / 0851153216
ISBN-13	978-0-85115-321-6 / 9780851153216
Zustand	Neuware