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See also:FERGUSON, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1710-1776) , Scottish mechanician and astronomer, was See also:born near Rothiemay in See also:Banffshire on the 25th of See also:April 1710, of parents in very humble circumstances. He first learned-to read by overhearing his See also:father See also:teach his See also:elder See also:brother, and with the help of an old woman was " able," he says in his autobiography, " to read tolerably well before his father thought of teaching him." After receiving further instruction in See also:reading from his father, who also taught him to write, he was sent at the See also:age of seven for three months to the See also:grammar school at See also:Keith. His See also:taste for See also:mechanics was about this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time See also:accident-ally awakened on seeing his father making use of a See also:lever to raise a See also:part of the roof of his house—an See also:exhibition of seeming strength which at first " excited his terror as well as wonder." In 1720 he was sent to a neighbouring See also:farm to keep See also:sheep, where in the daytime he amused himself by making See also:models of See also:mills and other See also:machines, and at See also:night in studying the stars. After-wards, as a servant with a See also:miller, and then with a See also:doctor, he met with hardships which rendered his constitution feeble through See also:life. Being compelled by his weak See also:health to return See also:home, he there amused himself with making a See also:clock having wooden wheels and a See also:whalebone See also:spring. When slightly recovered he showed this and some other inventions to a neighbouring See also:gentleman, who engaged him to clean his clocks, and also desired him to make his See also:house his home. He there began to draw patterns for See also:needlework, and his success in this See also:art led him to think of becoming a painter. In 1734 he went to See also:Edinburgh, where he began to take portraits in See also:miniature, by which means, while engaged in his scientific studies, he supported himself and his See also:family for many years. Subsequently he settled at See also:Inverness, where he See also:drew up his Astronomical Rotula for showing the motions of the See also:planets, places of the See also:sun and See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon, &c., and in 1743 went to See also:London, which was his home for the See also:rest of his life. He wrote various papers for the Royal Society, of which he became a See also:fellow in 1763, devised astronomical and See also:mechanical models, and in 1748 began to give public lectures on experimental See also:philosophy. These he repeated in most of the See also:principal towns in See also:England. His deep See also:interest in his subject, his clear explanations, his ingeniously constructed diagrams, and his mechanical apparatus rendered him one of the most successful of popular lecturers on scientific subjects. It is, however, as the inventor and improver of astronomical and other scientific apparatus, and as a striking instance of self-See also:education, that he claims a See also:place among the most remarkable men of See also:science of his See also:country. During the latter years of his life he was in See also:receipt of a See also:pension of £5e from the privy See also:purse. He died in London on the 17th of See also:November 1776.
Ferguson's principal publications are Astronomical Tables (1763); Lectures on Select Subjects (1st ed., 1761, edited by See also:Sir See also:David See also:Brewster in 1805) ; See also:Astronomy explained upon Sir See also:Isaac See also:Newton's Principles (1756, edited by Sir David Brewster in 1811) ; and Select Mechanical Exercises, with a See also:Short See also:Account of the Life of the Author, written by himself (1773). This autobiography is included in a Life by E. See also:Henderson, LL.D. (1st ed., 1867; and, 1870), which also contains a full description of Ferguson's principal inventions, accompanied with illustrations. See also The See also:Story of the See also:Peasant-Boy Philosopher, by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Mayhew (1857).
End of Article: FERGUSON, JAMES (1710-1776)
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