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See also:WYLIE, See also:ALEXANDER (1815-1887) , See also:British missionary, was See also:born in See also:London on the 6th of See also:April 1815, and went to school at Drumlithie, See also:Kincardineshire, and at See also:Chelsea. While apprenticed to a See also:cabinet-maker he picked up a See also:Chinese See also:grammar written in Latin, and after mastering the latter See also:tongue made such See also:good progress with the former, that in 1846 See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Legge engaged him to superintend the London Missionary Society's See also:press at See also:Shanghai. In this position he acquired a wide knowledge of Chinese See also:religion and See also:civilization, and especially of their See also:mathematics, so that he was able to show that See also:Sir See also:George See also:Horner's method (1819) of solving equations of all orders had. been known to the Chinese mathematicians of the 14th See also:century. He made several journeys into the interior, notably in 1858 with See also:Lord See also:Elgin up the Yang-tsze and in 1868 with See also:Griffith See also:John to the See also:capital of Sze-ch'uen and the source of the Han. From 1863 he was an See also:agent of the British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible Society. He settled in London in 1877, and died on the loth of See also:February 1887.
In Chinese he published books on See also:arithmetic, See also:geometry, See also:algebra (De See also:Morgan's), See also:mechanics, See also:astronomy (See also:Herschel's), and The Marine Steanz See also:Engine (T. J. See also:Main and T. See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown), as well as See also:translations of the first two gospels. In See also:English his See also:chief See also:works were Notes on Chinese Literature (Shanghai, 1867), and scattered articles collected under the See also:title Chinese Researches by A,exander Wylie (Shanghai, 1897).
See H. Cordier, See also:Life and Labours of A. Wylie (1887).
End of Article: WYLIE, ALEXANDER (1815-1887)
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