harriot in English

noun

family name; Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), English mathematician and astronomer who founded the English school of algebra and introduced new symbols and notatio

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1. The prosecutor for the government was Major F . J . Harriot , Deputy Judge Advocate General .

2. The Deputy Judge Advocate General , Major F . J . Harriot , prosecutor for the government , then addressed the court .

3. In 1609, Galileo was, along with Englishman Thomas Harriot and others, among the first to use a refracting telescope as an instrument to observe stars, planets or moons.

4. I Bravadoed to Harriot most magnanimously; but at night, when Marriott was undressing me, I could not forbear giving her a hint, which I thought might tend to preserve the king's peace, and the peace of the county