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A comprehensive re-evaluation of Isaac Barrow (1630-1677), one of the more prominent and intriguing of all seventeenth-century men of science. Barrow is remembered today - if at all - only as Sir Isaac Newton's mentor and patron, but he in fact made important contributions to the disciplines of optics and geometry.Feingold, Mordechai is the author of 'Before Newton The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow' with ISBN 9780521306942 and ISBN 0521306949.
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