Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethian Man of Science

Gordon R. Batho is Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Durham, and Chairman of the Thomas Harriot seminar. His research interests are the household affairs and libraries of the Percies in the early modern period. J. A. Bennett is Keeper of the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. His research interests include the history of instruments, practical mathematics, and astronomy. Stephen Clucas is lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written widely on topics in the intellectual history of the early modern period. Robert Fox is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His main research interests are in the history of the physical sciences and technology, especially in France. Hilary Gatti is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of 'La Sapienza' University of Rome, Italy. Her main interests are in Renaissance studies, particularly the works of Giordano Bruno. Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His main research interests are in the history of science and religion in the early modern period. John D. North is Professor Emeritus of the History of Philosophy and the Exact Sciences at the University of Groningen. He writes on the history of cosmology. David B. Quinn is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Liverpool. He has published widely on early modern Irish history and on the early history of North America. John J. Roche teaches courses in the history of science at Linacre College, Oxford. His chief research interest lies in using the history of science to clarify concepts in present-day physics. Muriel Seltman is Honorary Research Associate at the University of Greenwich, where she taught mathematics before retirement. Her main research interests are in the history of algebra, particularly in the development of notation. Hugh Trevor-Roper, formerly Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, has published a biography of Archbishop Laud and other books on early modern -- mainly intellectual and cultural -- history. Katherine D. Watson is Research Assistant on a biobibliographic database project funded by the Wellcome Trust and based at the Science Museum, London. Her main research interests include the history of chemistry and of forensic toxicology.Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethian Man of Science, with ISBN 9780754600787 and ISBN 0754600785.