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See also:SAUNDERSON, or See also:SANDERSON, See also:NICHOLAS (1682-1739) , See also:English mathematician, was See also:born at Thurlstone, See also:Yorkshire, in See also:January 1682. When about a See also:year old he lost his sight through smallpox; but this did not prevent him from acquiring a know-ledge of Latin and See also:Greek, and studying See also:mathematics. In 1707 he began lecturing at See also:Cambridge on the principles of the Newtonian See also:philosophy, and in See also:November 1711 he succeeded 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 See also:Whiston, the Lucasian See also:professor of mathematics in Cambridge. He was created See also:doctor of See also:laws in 1728 by command of See also:George II., and in 1736 was admitted a member of the Royal Society. He died of See also:scurvy, on the 19th of See also:April 1739.
Saunderson possessed the friendship of many of the eminent mathematicians of the 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, such as See also:Sir See also:Isaac See also:Newton, See also:Edmund See also:Halley, See also:Abraham De Moivre and See also:Roger See also:Cotes. His senses of See also:hearing and See also:touch were extraordinarily acute, and he could carry on mentally See also:long and intricate mathematical calculations. He devised a calculating See also:machine or See also:abacus, by which he could perform arithmetical and algebraical operations by the sense of touch; this method is sometimes termed his palpable See also:arithmetic, an See also:account of which is given in his elaborate Elements of See also:Algebra (2 vols., Cambridge, 174o). Of his other writings, prepared for the use of his pupils, the only one which has been published is The Method of Fluxions (1 vol., Lon-See also:don, 1756). At the end of this See also:treatise there is given, in Latin, an explanation of the See also:principal propositions of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy.
End of Article: SAUNDERSON, or SANDERSON, NICHOLAS (1682-1739)
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