Thomas Harriot (/ˈhæriət/; c. 1560 – 2 July 1621), also spelled Harriott, Hariot or Heriot, was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and...

Harriot may refer to: Elizabeth (Harriot) Wilson (1762–1786), figure in the folklore of southeastern Pennsylvania, hanged for murdering her children Harriot...

scientists Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman, Matthew Roydon and Thomas Harriot. There is no firm evidence that all of these men were known to each...

midpoint that is closest to Harriot. Harriot B lies within Harriot itself. Harriot W and X lie to the northwest of Harriot, and Harriot A, a highly eroded crater...

and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh, he and Manteo assisted the scientist Thomas Harriot with the job of deciphering and learning the Carolina Algonquian language...

2009. Retrieved June 11, 2007. "Welcome to Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences". Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. East Carolina University...

early 17th century by Thomas Harriot, lost for many years, and finally published in facsimile form in 2009 in the book Thomas Harriot's Doctrine of Triangular...

Arthur Barlowe was in command of the other. There are indications that Thomas Harriot and John White may have participated in the voyage, but no records survive...

Resolvendas (The Analytical Arts Applied to Solving Algebraic Equations) by Thomas Harriot, published posthumously in 1631. The text states "Signum majoritatis...

first observed telescopically in December 1610 by English astronomer Thomas Harriot. His observations were recorded in his notebooks and were followed in...

Albert Einstein, on Émilie du Châtelet and Mary Somerville, and on Thomas Harriot. In the 1970s, Arianrhod left her honours program in mathematics to...

Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Lodge, and George Chapman. Roydon fell in with Marlowe, and he, Thomas Harriot, and William Warner are mentioned...

Charles Fowler, was the first to be built out of cast iron. In 1609, Thomas Harriot was working at Syon when he made the first ever use of the newly invented...

Sidereus Nuncius ("Sidereal Messenger"). December – English scientist Thomas Harriot becomes one of the first to view sunspots through a telescope The Orion...

person to observe the Moon through a telescope (English mathematician Thomas Harriot had done so four months before but only saw a "strange spottednesse")...

and fencing. He regularly met scholars whom he patronised, including Thomas Harriot, Walter Warner and Robert Hues, who were known as the "Earl of Northumberland's...

returned to London, Tarporley became one of the trusted friends of Thomas Harriot. Apart from Catherine de Parthenay, Viète's other notable students were:...

location of the fabled El Dorado, that was represented in the map of Thomas Harriot in 1596. However, he failed then, and in two subsequent expeditions...

scarcity of sufficiently powerful telescopes. Several astronomers, such as Thomas Harriot, Joseph Gaultier de la Vatelle, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, and...

restricted access to the exotic newcomers. He assigned the scientist Thomas Harriot the job of deciphering and learning the Carolina Algonquian language...

Northumberland (1564–1632) since when it has remained in his family. In 1609, Thomas Harriot was working at Syon when he made the first ever use of the newly invented...

Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex Elizabeth I of England Erasmus Habermehl Thomas Harriot Tadeáš Hájek Nicholas Hilliard Joris Hoefnagel Rudolf II, Holy Roman...

problem of close-packing of spheres was first mathematically analyzed by Thomas Harriot around 1587, after a question on piling cannonballs on ships was posed...

given by Thomas Kyd after his imprisonment and possible torture (see above); Kyd and Baines connect Marlowe with mathematician Thomas Harriot's and Sir...

colonize America. Cavendish also studied navigation under the direction of Thomas Harriot at Raleigh's Durham House in Westminster. In 1585, Cavendish was appointed...

Thomas Harriot (c. 1560 – 1621); Harriot achieved this on 26 July 1609: over four months before Galileo. 1610: Sunspots discovered by Thomas Harriot (c...

Theodorus de Bry and his sons published a new, illustrated edition of Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia about the...

measuring the sun's altitude using back observations originated with Thomas Harriot. Many types of instruments evolved from the cross-staff that can be...

Defense of the Marine Chart, with further mathematical development by Thomas Harriot in the 1590s. A rhumb line can be contrasted with a great circle, which...

number system was studied in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries by Thomas Harriot and Gottfried Leibniz. The scribes of ancient Egypt used two different...