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See also:GALLOWAY, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1796-1851) , Scottish mathematician, was See also:born at Symington, See also:Lanarkshire, on the 26th of See also:February 1796. In 1812 he entered the university of See also:Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself specially in See also:mathematics. In 1823 he was appointed one of the teachers of mathematics at the military See also:college of See also:Sandhurst, and in 1833 he was appointed See also:actuary to the Amicable See also:Life Assurance See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office, the See also:oldest institution of that See also:kind in See also:London; in which situation he remained till his See also:death on the 1st of See also:November 1851. Galloway was a voluminous, though, for the most See also:part, an See also:anonymous writer. His most interesting See also:paper is " On the Proper See also:Motion of the See also:Solar See also:System," and was published in the Phil. Trans., 1847. He contributed largely to the seventh edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, and also wrote several scientific papers for the Edinburgh See also:Review and various scientific See also:journals. His Encyclopaedia See also:article, " See also:Probability," was published separately.
See Transactions of the Royal Astronomical Society (1852).
End of Article: GALLOWAY, THOMAS (1796-1851)
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