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HARRIOT, or HARRIOTT, THOMAS (156o1621) , English mathematician and astronomer, was born at Oxford in 156o. After studying at St Mary Hall
Henry
Percy , earl
Harriot's entitled Ephemeris chrysometria is preserved in Sion College; and his Artis analyticae praxis ad aequationes algebraicas resolvendas was published at London in 1631. His contributions to algebra are treated in the article ALGEBRA; Wallis's History of Algebra (1685) may also be consulted. From some papers of Harriot's, discovered in 1784, it would appear that he had either procured a telescope from Holland, or divined the construction of that instrument , and that he coincided in point of time with Galileo in discovering the spots on the sun's disk.See Charles Hutton, Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary (1815), and J. E. Montucla, Histoire des malhematiques (1758). End of Article: HARRIOT, or HARRIOTT, THOMAS (156o1621) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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