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 / by Isaac Barrow ...

Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677)

London : Printed By J. H. For Brab. Aylmer, 1693.

[4], 188 pages. Contemporary cambridge style calf binding. Cover wear. Early book plates of John Lawson and Edward Lister; as well as signature of J. Pemberton, 1755. Small stain on title.  Early marginalia on p. 178. Wing B947. Goldsmiths-Kress 03002.   Isaac Barrow was a noted mathematician and theologian.  Barrow was one of Newton's teachers at Cambridge and laid the foundations for infinitesimal calculus. This book is a collection of Barrow's sermons on industry (of particular interest is his words on the work of scholars).