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LARDNER, DIONYSIUS (1793-1859)

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LARDNER, See also:DIONYSIUS (1793-1859) , Irish scientific writer, was See also:born at See also:Dublin on the 3rd of See also:April 1793. His See also:father, a See also:solicitor, wished his son to follow the same calling. After some years of uncongenial See also:desk See also:work, Lardner entered Trinity See also:College, Dublin, and graduated B.A. in 1817. In 1828 he became See also:professor of natural See also:philosophy and See also:astronomy at University College, -See also:London, a position he held till 184o, when he eloped with a married See also:lady, and had to leave the See also:country. After a lecturing tour through the See also:principal cities of the See also:United States, which realized £40,000, he returned to See also:Europe in 1845. He settled at See also:Paris, and resided there till within a few months of his See also:death, which took See also:place at See also:Naples on the 29th of April 1859. Though lacking in originality or brilliancy, Lardner showed himself to be a successful popularizer of See also:science. He was the author of numerous mathematical and See also:physical See also:treatises on such subjects as algebraic See also:geometry (1823), the See also:differential and integral calculus (1825), the See also:steam engind (1828), besides See also:hand-books on various departments of natural philosophy (1854–1856); but it is as the editor of Lardner's See also:Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1830–1844) that he is best remembered. To this scientific library of 134 volumes many of the ablest savants of the See also:day contributed, Lardner himself being the author of the treatises on See also:arithmetic, geometry, See also:heat, See also:hydrostatics and See also:pneumatics, See also:mechanics (in See also:conjunction with See also:Henry See also:Kater) and See also:electricity (in conjunction with C. V. See also:Walker). The Cabinet Library (12 vols., 180–1832) and the Museum of Science and See also:Art (12 vols., 1854–1856) are his other See also:chief undertakings.

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original papers appear in the Royal Irish See also:Academy's Transactions (1824), in the Royal Society's Proceedings (1831–1836) and in the Astronomical Society's Monthly Notices (1852-1853); and two Reports to the See also:British Association on railway constants (1838, 1841) are from his See also:pen.

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