"By the end of the 16th century with the work of Viète and especially during the first half of the 17th century in the work of Harriot, Fermat, and Descartes, mathematicians began to treat algebra more symbolically, eventually adopting a notation that readily lends itself to making algebraic computations."
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Thomas Harriot
(c. 1560 – 2 July 1621) was an English , , and . Very little of his work on astronomy, mathematics, and navigation was published during his lifetime. On the 5th of August 1609 he became the first — a few months before Galileo — to make a drawing of the Moon based upon observations through a telescope.
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