Isaac Barrow 1630-1677

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Isaac BARROW 1630-77===

Biographical Note

Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Books

Gave ca.60 volumes to Trinity during his lifetime, 10 more were bought after his death. A catalogue of his library, ca.1100 volumes, is in Bodleian Library ms Rawl.D.878, fos.39-59.

Sources

Feingold, Mordechai. ["Barrow, Isaac (1630–1677), mathematician and theologian." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. P. Gaskell, Trinity College Library: the first 150 years. Cambridge, 1980. 131.