Harriot, Thomas (c. 1560-1621)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3678. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Teacher, probably born in Oxfordshire, Harriot travelled with Sir Walter Raleigh to Virginia as cartographer and navigator, writing on his return A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. He was Ralegh's tutor and mathematics teacher and introduced simplified notation for algebra, inventing the symbols < for `less than' and > for `greater than', as well as . for multiplication...

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