Hace ya una decada, Mordechai Feingold [*] edito una estimulante recopilacion
de articulos sobre la epoca, vida, y contribuciones de Isaac Barrow, escritos
por especialistas sobre el tema [v.g. Michael Mahoney's "Barrow's Mathematics:
Between Ancients and Moderns"].
[*] "Before Newton: The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow" (1990), 392 pages,
Hardback [50 pounds]. ISBN: 0-521-30694-9 [ Try http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/ ]
Book Description:
A comprehensive reevaluation 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. Moreover, he was a prolific and
influential preacher as well as a renowned classical scholar. By seeking
to understand Barrow's mathematical work, primarily within the confines
of the pre-Newtonian scientific framework, the book offers a substantial
rethinking of his scientific acumen. In addition to providing a
biographical study of Barrow, it explores the intimate connections among
his scientific, philological, and religious worldviews in an attempt to
convey the complexity of the seventeenth-century culture that gave rise
to Isaac Barrow, a breed of polymath that would become increasingly rare
with the advent of modern science.
Una rapida consulta a la pagina de Cambridge University Press sugiere que el
libro esta aun a la venta [ information@cup.cam.ac.uk ] . En cualquier caso,
esta compilacion de ensayos deberia poderse ubicar en alguna biblioteca
cientifica de Londres.
G'luck & cordiales saludos desde Montevideo,
Julio Gonzalez Cabillon