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 from mathematical 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 Sir Jonas 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.
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 from mathematical 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 Sir Jonas 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.
Introduction: "A Good Mathematician and a Good Fellowe". Part 1 Moore's social and intellectual origins - teachers and patrons: ancestry and education; local patrons; employment and taking up mathematics. Part 2 Founding a mathematical career: William Oughtred; "Mathematicall More" - the author and his books. Part 3 "His Rise" - surveying the Fens: projectors and "giddy projects"; Moore's role - mathematics and surveying. Part 4 The Restoration and a route to royal service: mathematical practice in Restoration London; Tangier; the Surveyorship of the Ordnance. Part 5 "The genius of all arts" - patronage of the mathematical sciences: the Royal Society and the Royal Observatory; "The New Systeme of the mathematicks".
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*
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