Talk:Thomas Harriot

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What is the purpose of Thomas Harriot's, A Briefe and True Report?

Harriot was hoping to encourage more people to move from England to its Virginia colony. Note that he himself did not return to Virginia, though! His other writing on Virginia was intended to be a scientific report of the climate, geology, peoples, plants and animals to be found there, and this still has some value to modern scietists.Tham153 (talk) 18:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Could somebody please explain ...
... exactly how "the local Algonquin language ... may have had some effect on his mathematical thinking"? Is there any feature of the Algonquin language that could have such an effect? If not, maybe this unsupported and unreferenced claim should be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.154.153 (talk) 02:21, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Lead
Shouldn't this important paragraph/sentence appear in the lead instead of way down? Harriot is now credited as the first astronomer to draw an astronomical object after viewing it through a telescope, a map of the Moon on July 26, 1609, preceding Galileo by several months,[5][6][7] [8] and also to observe sunspots in December 1610.[9] any comments or suggestions? thanks Peter morrell 18:00, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Done Skeptic2 (talk) 22:34, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Old sentence
The sentence "The original documents showing Harriot's moon map of c. 1611, observations of Jupiter's satellites, and first observations of sunspots are now on display at the Science Museum, London, from 23 July 2009 until the end of IYA" should be updated, since the IYA has already past. Shim&#39;on (talk) 18:48, 13 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Be bold! – ukexpat (talk) 19:10, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Didn't invent less than and greater than symbols?
See http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Harriot.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.6.216.209 (talk) 14:39, 30 August 2010 (UTC) The box on the right says "around 1630". As Harriot died in 1621, this seems to refer to post-humous publication.

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Rather odd
Rather odd remarks, about Harriot's failure with eclipses of the moon, seem to have been made by Amir Alexander. Amir has a conflict of interest.

Greater than, less than and Algonquin language
The references to introduction of to mean greater than and less than are refuted by multiple sources who note that the work was published posthumously and likely introduced by the editor (eg: Britannica)

The claim to have translated the "Carolina Algonquin" language to English also appears to have no merit. I'm unable to find any source to bolster the claim - although there is significant scholarship on the publication of A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588). I would suggest neither claim be included without specific citation. CMacMillan (talk) 13:06, 19 September 2023 (UTC)