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See also: THOMPSON, 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 PERONNET (1783-1869) , See also:English See also:political writer and mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Hull in 1783. He was educated at the Hull See also:grammar school, and in See also:October (1798) entered Queens' See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He entered the See also:navy as See also:midshipman in the " See also:Isis " in 1803, but in 18o6 ex-changed to the See also:army. Through his acquaintance with 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:Wilberforce, he was appointed See also:governor of Sierra Leone in 18o8, but was recalled on See also:account of his hostility to the slave See also:trade. In 1812 he returned to his military duties, and, after serving in the See also:south of See also:France, was in 1815 attached as Arabic interpreter to an expedition against the Wahabees of the See also:Persian Gulf, with whom he negotiated a treaty (dated See also:Jan. 1820) in which the slave trade was for the first 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 declared piracy. He was promoted See also:major in 1825, See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel in 1829 and major-See also:general in
1854. He entered See also:parliament as member for Hull (1835–1837), and afterwards sat for See also:Bradford (1847–1852, 1857–1859). He took a prominent See also:part in the See also:corn-See also:law agitation, his See also:Catechism of the Corn See also:Laws (1827) being by far the most effective pamphlet published on the subject. In 1829 he became the proprietor of the See also:Westminster See also:Review, to which he contributed a large number of articles, republished in 1842 in six volumes, under the See also:title Exercises, Political and Others. His mathematical publications were of a somewhat See also:eccentric See also:kind. He published a Theory of See also:Parallels (1844), and was also the author of See also:Geometry without Axioms, in which he endeavoured to " get rid " of axioms and postulates. His new Theory of Just Intonation (r85o) was, however, a contribution of See also: great value to the See also:science of musical See also:acoustics, and went through many See also:editions. It may be said to have formed the basis of the tonic sol-fa See also:system of See also:music. He died at See also:Blackheath, near See also:London, on the 7th of See also:September 1869.
See Colonel C. W. Thompson's memoir in the Proc. See also:Roy. See also:Soc. (1869).
End of Article: THOMPSON, THOMAS PERONNET (1783-1869)
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