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See also:EMERSON, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1701-1782) , See also:English mathematician, was See also:born on the 14th of May 1701 at Hurworth, near See also:Darlington, where his See also:father, See also:Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school. Unsuccessful as a teacher he devoted himself entirely to studious retirement, and published many See also:works which are singularly See also:free from errata. In See also:mechanics he never advanced a proposition which he had not previously tested in practice, nor published an invention without first proving its effects by a See also:model. He was skilled in the See also:science of See also:music, the theory of sounds, and the See also:ancient and See also:modern scales; but he never attained any excellence as a performer. He died on the loth of May 1782 at his native See also:village. Emerson was See also:eccentric and indeed clownish, but he possessed remarkable See also:independence of See also:character and intellectual See also:energy. The boldness with which he expressed his opinions on religious subjects led to his being charged with See also:scepticism, but for this there was no See also:foundation.
Emerson's works include The See also:Doctrine of Fluxions (1748) ; The See also:Projection of the See also:Sphere, Orthographic, Stereographic and Gnomical (1749) ; The Elements of Trigonometry_ (1749) ; The Principles of Mechanics (1754) ; A See also:Treatise of See also:Navigation (1755); A Treatise of See also:Algebra, in two books (1765) ; The See also:Arithmetic of Infinites, and the See also:Differential Method, illustrated by Examples (1767) ; Mechanics, or the Doctrine of See also:Motion (1769); The Elements of See also:Optics, in four books (1768) ; .4 See also:System of See also:Astronomy (1769) ; The See also:Laws of Centripetal and Centrifugal Force (1769); The Mathematical Principles of See also:Geography (1770) ; Tracts (1770) ; Cyclomathesis, or an Easy Introduction to the several branches of the See also:Mathematics (1770), in ten vols.; A See also:Short Comment on See also:Sir See also:Isaac See also:Newton's Principia; to which is added, A See also:Defence of Sir Isaac against the objections that have been made to several parts of his works (1770) ; A See also:Miscellaneous Treatise containing several Mathematical Subjects (1776).
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