remembering Thomas Harriot, 400 years on
- Written by Robyn Arianrhod, Affiliate, School of Mathematics, Monash University
Four hundred years ago, on July 2 1621, a remarkable Englishman named Thomas Harriot died in London. He left behind some 8,000 pages of scientific research, but it is only in recent decades that scholars have uncovered their treasures.
And what they show is that Harriot independently made many significant discoveries now attributed...

















