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Sir Jonas Moore

Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science

By: Frances Willmoth

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Hardcover | 1 April 1993

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Sir Jonas Moore (1617-79) - practical mathematician, teacher, author, surveyor, cartographer, Ordnance Officer, courtier and patron of astronomy - enjoyed a remarkable career by the standards of any age, and was one of the first to make a substantial fortune from mathematical practice. In the course of his 'rise' (as his friend John Aubrey termed it) from humble origins in Lancashire to a knighthood, membership of the Royal Society and favour at the court of Charles II, he participated in the two most ambitious projects of the age: the draining of the Great Level of the Fens (under the Dutch engineer Sir Cornelius Vermuyden) and the building of a massive harbour wall, the Mole, at Tangier. In later life his wealth and influence as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance enabled him to become a patron of the new Royal Observatory at Greenwich.
This biography, the first detailed study of Moore, examines his career in the context of changing views of mathematics, especially in relation to 17th-century disputes about the proper nature of the discipline and its effectiveness as means of solving practical problems. It sheds light on the roles played by patrons and teachers of the subject, most notably the figurehead of English mathematicians, William Oughtred. It also illuminates the confidence in practical mathematics that inspired Moore's unique activities as a patron, and the uneasy relationship between this and the natural-philosophical concerns of the early Royal Society. This wide-ranging study challenges the current conventionally narrow view of mathematics in the time of the 17th-century 'scientific revolution'.

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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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List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: 'A Good Mathematician and a Good Fellowe'	p. 1
Moore's Social and Intellectual Origins: Teachers and Patrons
Ancestry and education	p. 11
Local patrons	p. 22
Employment and taking up mathematics	p. 27
Founding a Mathematical Career
William Oughtred	p. 43
'Mathematicall More': the author and his books	p. 61
'His Rise': Surveying the Fens
Projectors and 'giddy projects'	p. 88
Moore's role: mathematics and surveying	p. 104
The Restoration and a Route to Royal Service
Mathematical practice in Restoration London	p. 121
Tangier	p. 130
The Surveyorship of the Ordnance	p. 138
'The Genius of All Arts': Patronage of the Mathematical Sciences
The Royal Society and the Royal Observatory	p. 158
The New Systeme of the Mathematicks	p. 195
Conclusion	p. 208
Bibliography	p. 216
Index	p. 234
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