When1: 1588
Who: Thomas Harriott [Harriott, Thomas]
What: mathematician
Where: England
works\ Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia [1588: close-packing]
Detail: He lived 1560 to 1621, used modern algebra notation, and studied trajectories. He invented refraction law.
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