Instruments, mathematics, and natural knowledge: Thomas Harriot's place on the map of learning

Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 137-152

  Bennett, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315236162-7     Document Type: Chapter

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