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See also:BARLOW, See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER (1776-1862) , See also:English writer on pure and applied See also:mathematics, was See also:born at See also:Norwich in 1776 and died on the 1st of See also:March 1862. In 18o6 he was appointed mathematical See also:master in the See also:Woolwich See also:Academy, and filled that See also:post for See also:forty-one years. In 1823 he was made a See also:fellow of the Royal Society, and two years later received the See also:Copley See also:medal. See also:Steam loco-See also:motion received much See also:attention at his hands, and he sat on the railway commissions of 1836, 1839, 1842, 1845. He received many distinctions from See also:British and See also:foreign scientific See also:societies. Barlow's See also:principal See also:works are—Elementary Investigation of the Theory of See also:Numbers (1811); New Mathematical and Philosophical See also:Dictionary (1814); See also:Essay on Magnetic Attractions (1820). The investigations on See also:magnetism led to the important See also:practical See also:discovery of a means of rectifying or compensating See also:compass errors in See also:ships. Besides compiling numerous useful tables, he contributed largely to the See also:Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.
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