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3 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.3218
- isbn: 9782251661810
- eisbn: 9791036516412
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Irène Simon, « Chapter four. Barrow, South, and Tillotson », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.3218
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Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) When Charles II appointed Isaac Barrow Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1672, he remarked that he had bestowed this dignity on the best scholar in England. Barrow had by then achieved eminence in mathematics and in classical scholarship; he was one of the King’s chaplains in ordinary, he had preached at Court and manifested his ready wit in encounters with the Earl of Rochester and the Duke of Buckingham, and he was soon to engage in the most thorough-going re...