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See also:NICHOLSON, 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 (1753-1815) , See also:English writer on natural See also:philosophy, was See also:born in See also:London in 1753, and after leaving school made two voyages as See also:midshipman in the See also:East See also:India service. He subsequently entered an See also:attorney's 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, but, having become acquainted, in 1775, with See also:Josiah See also:Wedgwood. he lived for some years at See also:Amsterdam as See also:agent for the See also:sale of pottery. On his return to See also:England he was induced by 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 See also:Holcroft to devote himself to the See also:composition of See also:light literature for See also:periodicals, assisting that writer also with some of his plays and novels. Meanwhile he employed himself on the preparation of An Introduction to Natural Philosophy, which was published in 1781 and was at once successful. A See also:translation of See also:Voltaire's Elements of the Newtonian Philosophy soon followed, and he now entirely devoted himself to scientific pursuits and philosophical journalism. In 1784 he was appointed secretary to the See also:General Chamber of Manufacturers of See also:Great See also:Britain, and he was also connected with the Society for the Encouragement of See also:Naval See also:Architecture, established in 1791. He bestowed much See also:attention upon the construction of various See also:machines for See also:comb-cutting, See also:file-making, See also:cylinder See also:printing, &c.; he also invented an areometer. In 1800 he began in London a course of public lectures on natural philosophy and See also:chemistry, and about this See also:period he made the See also:discovery of the decomposition of See also:water by the voltaic current. In 1797 the See also:Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, generally known as Nicholson's Journal, the earliest See also:work of the See also:kind in Great Britain, was begun; it was carried on till 1814. During the later years of his See also:life Nicholson's attention was chiefly directed to waterworks See also:engineering at See also:Portsmouth, at See also:Gosport and in See also:Southwark. He died in London on the 21st of May 1815.
Besides considerable contributions to the Philosophical Trans-actions, Nicholson wrote See also:translations of See also:Fourcroy's Chemistry (1787) and See also:Chaptal's Chemistry (1788), First Principles of Chemistry (1788) and a Chemical See also:Dictionary (1795) ; he also edited the See also:British See also:Encyclopaedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (6 vols., 8vo, London, 1809).
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