Author: Barrow,Isaac (1630-1677)
Title: OF INDUSTRY in Five Discourses : Viz. in General, in Our General Calling As Christians, in Our Particular Calling As Gentlemen, in Our Particular Calling As Scholars
Description: London, Brab.Alymer (Published by Archbishop of Canterbury) 1693 frontisportrait by Van der Gucht Michael Van der Gucht (1660-1725) . 160x92mm marbled roan blindruled to covers, professionally rebacked with gilt spine rules and red gilt lettered spine label [tips sl.worn] Portrait + titlepage + bookseller's advert after frontispeice. Small near contemporary inscription on frontespeice. +188p Richard Squibb owner's name to verso of Isaac Barrow portrait & charming bookplate to rear pastedown. Newer end-papers. *Isaac Barrow was a leading Cambridge Mathmetician and Royalist, who was a leading pioneer of calculating tangents. Antiquarian John Aubrey attriubtes Barrow`s death to an opium addiction. This books was published by John Tillotson (1630-1694) the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691-1694.

Keywords: 17th century anglican christian work ethic/morality


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