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	Thomas Hariot and the Test of Truth
		Hariot, well aware of the contents of the Queen's patent to Ralegh, is careful in his public document not to leave an impression that the 1585 party wantonly destroyed the natives and their towns, as the patent's regulations encourage only defensive action.
		Hariot accordingly provides them the picture of a land bursting with fertility and wealth and populated only by inhabitants anxious to accept English rule and religion, using misdirection in such a way that the harsh realities of the 1585 expedition are obscured.
		Hariot carefully avoids stretching the credulity of his readers; rather than describe imaginary cities made of gold and jewels, he instead discusses food and harvestable commodities, itmes with which his readers were familiar.
	www.grandiose.com /vb/hariot.html (6806 words)

	The Newberry Library: Smith Center Publications
		Hariot later established and taught in a school to train Raleigh's sea captains in the developing art of open sea navigation, a discipline that used many of the instruments also used by English surveyors of the time.
		Hariot and White probably used the more sophisticated method of triangulation with a plain table or a theodolite to conduct at least part of the surveys of their finished maps, which are highly accurate.
		Hariot and White's survey formed the basis for a number of important maps, but three of them-the preliminary sketch map, the map of the Outer Banks, and the composite map of the east coast from Florida to the Chesapeake Bay-remained in manuscript and were consequently not widely circulated.
	www.newberry.org /smith/slidesets/ss19.html (3801 words)

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		Hariot further emphasizes his employer's contributions to the colonization venture by highlighting the four voyages that Raleigh had personally organized and supported in addition to the 1584 reconnaissance voyage: the 1585 Lane colony, the failed 1586 resupply voyage under Grenville, and the recent 1587 colony under the governorship of White.
		Hariot therefore implies that merchants who ventured their capital and settlers who ventured their lives had nothing to fear from the Indians, a position different from that of Lane, who pictured the Indians as dangerous adversaries whom the colonists defeated only by his stratagems and determination.
		Hariot is careful to limit his claims to the signs of copper that he found among the Indians: during their western expedition the colonists found several small sheets of copper that the inhabitants of that region said were produced by tribes further west, in the mountains of Chaunis Temoatan.
	www.uga.edu /colonialseminar/Hariot1.htm (18459 words)

	CORONA 4. THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT by Frederick Turner, Page 14. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Hariot's disciple Nathaniel Torporley had indeed been Vieta's secretary; Vieta and Hariot clearly knew each other's work; in a period of scientific breakthrough we know that discoveries are often made simultaneously and independently (as of course with the discovery of calculus in the next generation).
		Most important of all, and perhaps Hariot's greatest contribution to mathematics, was his systematic practice of "bringing the whole equation over to one side and making it equal to nothing," that is, the fundamental operation, the sine qua non, the "to be or not to be," of any modern algebra.
		Hariot was even suspected, with Raleigh, of having been involved in the Gunpowder Plot; so great was King James' fear of Hariot that one of his accusations against Raleigh was that Raleigh had made Hariot cast the horoscope of the king.
	www.montana.edu /corona/4/school14.html (480 words)

	Electronic Research Tools: Thomas Hariot Surfs the Web
		As in the Europe of his time, Hariot is not alone in the quiet pervasiveness of his influence.
		Starting with Hariot's biography, found from the History of Mathematics homepage by clicking on the "Biographies Index," one can connect to discussions of mathematicians such as Francois Viete and John Wallis, who were influenced by Hariot's work, as well as to a discussion of Hariot's work on equations.
		As prefatory material, Kennedy includes a table of textual variants, a discussion of her emendations, a biographical sketch of Hariot, a discussion of the provenance of extant copies of the Briefe and True Report, and notes on the specific copies she used for her editions.
	www.ecu.edu /rcro/Newsletter/4-1/Hariot.htm (838 words)

	Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
		Hariot was a tutor in the household of Sir Walter Raleigh and taught astronomy and navigation to some of Raleigh's sea captains.
		Hariot returned to England with Sir Francis Drake in 1586, and, with his colleague John White, a cartograher who accompanied him to Roanoke, became one of the leading experts on America.
		Hariot's book exemplifies England's first attempt at colonization, and its desire to compete with France and Spain by exploiting the resources of the New World.
	www.lib.umich.edu /tcp/eebo/Featured/Hariot.html (294 words)

	Thomas Hariot - TheBestLinks.com - Astronomer, Johannes Kepler, Mathematician, Native American, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Thomas Hariot, Astronomer, Johannes Kepler, Mathematician, Native American...
		Thomas Hariot (1560-1621) was an English mathematician and astronomer, who accompanied Sir Walter Raleigh on his expedition to Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina.
		As scientific adviser during the voyage, Hariot was asked by Raleigh to find the most efficient way to stack cannon balls on the deck of the ship.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Thomas_Hariot.html (224 words)

	Thomas Hariot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Thomas Hacket published in London the 30th of May 1563, Ribault's 'True and last Discouerie of Florida,' purporting to be a translation from the French; but no printed French original is now known to exist.
		Thomas Candish or Cavendish afterwards the circumnavigator, Captain Philip Amadas of the Council, John White the painter as delineator and draughtsman, Master Thomas Hariot the mathematician as historiographer, surveyor and scientific discoverer or explorer, and many others whose names are preserved in Hakluyt.
		It is not positively stated that Hariot held direct correspondence with Galileo in 1609 and 1610 or even later, but the evidence is strong that he was promptly kept informedof what was going on in Italy in astronomical and mathematical discovery, as well as in Germany and elsewhere.
	www.blackmask.com /books78c/thari.htm (16184 words)

	Sir Walter Raleigh - American colonies
		During all this time, Raleigh's explorers (Thomas Hariot and John White) had been documenting and drawing various aspects of the area.
		Thomas Hariot (1560 to 1621) was undoubtedly an important friend of Raleigh.
		Hariot's Briefe and True Report is an abstract of his Chronicle.
	www.britishexplorers.com /woodbury/raleigh1.html (3241 words)

	CORONA 4. THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT by Frederick Turner, Page 17. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		We know already of Hariot's fascination with the nature of translation: his friendship with the Amerindian princes Wanchese and Manteo, his naming the unnamed-in-English, his linguistic and orthographic investigations.
		One of the reasons for the present obscurity of Hariot was that his executor and former mathematical associate Nathanial Torporley failed to publish most of the work Hariot left behind.
		Hariot (like Shakespeare, as one critic notes) was careless in his lifetime of his own literary posterity and never bothered to publish his major work.
	www.montana.edu /corona/4/school17.html (607 words)

	NIAHD Journals
		Despite the fact it was of little direct relevance to the settlement at Jamestown, it was an education in the political situation of southern Africa, and on the Imbangala, a cannibalistic warrior tribe of the region that discouraged childbirth, and only increased their numbers by kidnapping boys from neighboring villages.
		Thomas Hariot pretty much wrote a pamphlet advertising the New World and what it has to offer.
		Hariot was pretty much making a real estate pitch to anybody who wanted to come to the new world.
	www.wm.edu /niahd/journals/index.php?browse=entry&id=6223 (1010 words)

	North Carolina Collection-Native Americans in North Carolina - History
		Thomas C. Parramore and Douglas C. Wilms, North Carolina: The History of an American State.
		Thomas Hariot, Description of Travels to the colony of Virginia.
		Hariot relates his experiences in the colony of Virginia (of which present-day North Carolina was then a part).
	www.lib.unc.edu /ncc/ref/na/hist.html (1313 words)

	Text Annotation Project - Nathan Baylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		While the sixteenth and seventeenth century literary landscape is seen primarily through the windows of poetry, prose, and drama, travel narratives began to become more and more prominent as overseas expansion increased.
		One of these anomalies and one of the most significant pieces that was published by Hakluyt was Thomas Harriot's Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, published in 1588, which attempted something quite novel: a dispassionate cataloguing of the sights and sounds of this new land.
		This is not to say that he did not have an ulterior motive for the writing of the Report, for he makes it clear that the point of the work is to bolster interest in the exploration and colonization of the New World.
	faculty.valpo.edu /bflak/engl420/TextAnnotationProject.html (2997 words)

	Thomas Hariot Study Questions, Report on Virginia, 1585 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Thomas Hariot Study Questions, Report on Virginia, 1585
		What main reason does Hariot supply for the writing of his report--what relationship does he evidently believe should obtain between the natives and the European colonists who go to live in the New World?
		What are their most important characteristics--the best ones and the worst, according to Hariot?
	www.ajdrake.com /e211_spr_04/materials/authors/hariot_sq.htm (100 words)

	Thomas Harriot, Trumpter of Roanoke
		Explorer, navigational expert, mathematician, scientist and astronomer Thomas Harriot was born in Oxford about 1560.
		Suffering from cancer of the nose in his later years, Harriot died in 1621 at the home of Thomas Buckner, a mercer who lived on Threadneedle Street near the Royal Exchange.
		Buckner may have been the "Thomas Bookener" who was with Harriot on Roanoke Island in 1585-1586.
	www.nps.gov /fora/trumpter.htm (1107 words)

	The Thomas Hariot Mathematician, The Philosopher And The Scholar by Henry Stevens eBook by BookRags
		The Thomas Hariot Mathematician, The Philosopher And The Scholar by Henry Stevens eBook by BookRags
		The Thomas Hariot Mathematician, The Philosopher And The Scholar by Henry Stevens
		He anticipated the law of refraction, corresponded with Kepler, observed comets, and may have been the first to recognize that the straight line paths of comets might be segments of elongated ellipses.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/5171 (160 words)

	briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, A-Folger Shakespeare Library
		Theodor de Bry created these engravings for Thomas Hariot's 1590 Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.
		The Native Americans pictured here are members of the Powhatan Confederacy.—CL Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621.
		A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants.
	www.folger.edu /eduPrimSrcDtl.cfm?psid=144 (520 words)

	Account of the Roanoke Colony from De Bry's Grand Voyages. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh sent out an expedition under the command of Sir Richard Grenville to found a colony, which Queen Elizabeth allowed to be named “Virginia” in her honor.
		The chief scientist in the expedition was Thomas Hariot who was instructed to study the Indian culture and the natural resources of the region.
		Hariot was accompanied by John White as surveyor and artist.
	www.philaprintshop.com /debry1t.html (412 words)

	Private Passions, Public Legacy: From Colony to Constitution
		On this expedition were Thomas Hariot and John Whitetwo men sent along to record their findings in the newly discovered land.
		Hariot kept a chronicle of his two years in the New World which he abbreviated and published as A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia in 1588.
		White was sent along to make maps and prepare drawings of the land and its inhabitants.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/mellon/colony.html (493 words)

	POETICS archives -- March 1995 (#199)
		She is a rebel who appears to fail at every climax of her life.
		She can be seen to go deeper at these times.' (Rukeser 'The Traces of Thomas Hariot') I've often referred to Muriel Rukeyser's terrific book 'The Traces of Thomas Hariot'.
		Somehow that leads back to the top of this post and 'The Traces of Thomas Hariot' re - issues of posterity and the market forces which exxxxcercise their imperatives onto choice and 'what remains' or 'residues' its presence.
	listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9503&L=poetics&P=R9787&D=1&H=1&O=T&T=1 (766 words)

	Thomas Hariot
		At Sion were the groves of Hariot's academy.
		The letter is in the well-known handwriting of Lower, of Tra'venti, on Mount Martin, near Llanfihangel, in South Wales, to his dearly loved friend and master Hariot at Sion, and is dated the 6th of February, 1610.
		How long these two sheets have been separated it is difficult to tell, but probably from Hariot's day, that is, for more than two centuries and a half.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/thari10h.htm (17259 words)

	Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants
		Although Canadian-collected F. virginiana were probably grown earlier in French botanical garden, Thomas Hariot, the scientific adviser and narrator for the Sir Walter Raleigh expedition in 1585, may have been the first to relay the Virginia strawberry, "as good and as a great as those which we have in our English gardens," to England.
		It was soon described as the "greene strawberrie" (partly because of abbreviated ripening) by John Gerard in 1597 and illustrated in European herbals such as Basilius Besler's Hortus Eyestettensis in 1613.
		Philip Miller in 1768 said the strawberry was so common that few English gardeners bothered to care for cultivated plants, a concern shared by Duchesne, who said that only a few French commercial growers manured, pruned, or mulched strawberries in the mid-eighteenth century.
	www.twinleaf.org /articles/strawberries.html (1427 words)

	Theodore de Bry's Engravings [Virginia Historical Society]
		In 1590, Theodore de Bry reprinted Thomas Hariot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.
		The text was illustrated with copper-plate engravings by de Bry and his associate, Gysbert van Veen, based on paintings by John White.
		The captions that accompany each engraving in the book are usually credited to Thomas Hariot.
	www.vahistorical.org /cole/debry.htm (288 words)

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		Engraving in Thomas Hariot, A Briefe and True Report of.
		Eve, a European maiden with the anatomically awkward body type familiar from Northern European engravings by such artists as Albrecht Dürer, looks knowingly over her shoulder as she reaches for the fatal apple indicated by the she-demon-serpent entwined at the center of the tree of knowledge, while Adam gazes guilelessly heavenward.
		From Thomas Hariot, A Briefe and True Report of.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /mss/mssmisc/awh/awh5ai.html (1419 words)

	The Galileo Project \| Science \| Thomas Harriot
		Nothing is known of Harriot's life up to the time when, at age seventeen, he matriculated at the University of Oxford.
		Sources: Harriot's life is well told in John W. Shirley, Thomas Harriot: A Biography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).
		Shirley has also published A Source Book for the Study of Thomas Harriot (New York: Arno Press, 1981), and Thomas Harriot: Renaissance Scientist (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974) which contain many useful articles on Harriot's life and scientific studies.
	galileo.rice.edu /sci/harriot.html (513 words)

	Thomas Hariot ~ Henry Stevens ~ eBookMall ~ eBook
		Thomas Hariot ~ Henry Stevens ~ eBookMall ~ eBook
		COLLECTORS OF RARE English books always speak reverently and even mysteriously of the 'quarto Hariot' as they do of the 'first folio.' It is given to but few of them ever to touch or to see it, for not more than seven copies are at present known to exist.
		Even four of these are locked up in public libraries, whence they are never likely to pass into private hands.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/thomas-hariot-stevens-ebooks.htm (117 words)

	New Worlds Resource Page
		Sir Thomas More Primary texts of his writings, including Utopia, plus historical and critical essays, and links to More resources.
		Thomas Hariot His writings, a brief biography, essays on his works, and an image of Hariot.
		Thomas Hariot Biography With particular detail about his mathematical and astronomical achievements.
	emc.english.ucsb.edu /themes/newworldstrial.htm (1340 words)

	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 16th Century: Topic 2: Web Resources
		An excellent introduction to the writer and his work, with a number of images from his history of Brazil, provided by the Library of the University of Virginia.
		A selection of brief extracts from the encounter narratives of Christopher Columbus, Jean de Lery, Bernal Diaz, and Thomas Hariot.
		A well-illustrated introduction to the history and art of the dynasty that ruled over India in the age of Elizabeth I and James I. Thomas Hariot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
	www.wwnorton.com /NAEL/16century/topic_2/resources.htm (311 words)

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