SIR JONAS MOORE Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science

WILLMOTH, Frances

ISBN 10: 0851153216 / ISBN 13: 9780851153216

Published by The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1993

About this Item

Dark maroon cloth with gilt sp. lettering, pristine. Endpapers illustrated with 2 early maps of the Fens before and after drainage + f/piece portrait +xi + 244, 15 further full p. ills inc. in pagination; easily erasable pencil sig. of Derek Gibson above date 18.10.97 verso fr. end-paper, this being Derek Gair Gibson 1935-2021 eminent British pioneering cardiologist, so probably best retained, otherwise pristine. Unclipped illustrated jacket clean and unworn but fading to spine and strip across top back. SirJonas Moore (1617-79) was a mathematician, surveyor, cartographer, member of the Royal Society and courtier. 16 cm x 24 cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SIR JONAS MOORE Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science
• Publisher: The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851153216
• ISBN 13: 9780851153216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • History of Science & Technology
  • Industry, Crafts, Technology, Occupations
  • Mathematics

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Synopsis

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.

Review

Her fine book...meticulously researched. HISTORY OF SCIENCE An interesting and well-researched book... Through the study of Moore's emergence as a mathematician, Willmoth has added in a number of ways to our still hazy knowledge of the scientific circles current in England in the mid-seventeenth century. HISTORY A book of considerable erudition, primarily of use and interest to scholars engaged in studies of 17th-century science and mathematics. Illustrated with, inter alia, interestingplates taken from Moore's maps and books. Well indexed and, as one might expect in a work of such scholarship, well-documented in an extensive bibliography. ANNALS OF SCIENCE