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William Emerson

William Emerson
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Naissance
Hurworth (Angleterre)
Décès (à 81 ans)
Hurworth (Angleterre)
Nationalité Anglais
Résidence Hurworth
Domaines mathématicien, médecin, astronome, physicien et musicien

William Emerson, mathématicien né à Hurworth (comté de Durham) le , mort à Hurworth le . Fils d'un maître d'école, il tint lui-même, durant quelques années, une pension, mais ne tarda pas à se consacrer tout entier à l'étude, se contentant des revenus d'un patrimoine très modique. Il acquit ainsi de profondes connaissances en mathématique et en médecine et cultiva aussi la musique. Il a laissé vingt-cinq ouvrages sur les mathématiques, l'astronomie et la physique; il convient de citer plus particulièrement les suivants  :

Doctrine of fluxions, 1743
  • Fluxions (1748 ; 3e éd., 1768),
  • Elements of trigonometry (1749; 2° éd., 1764),
  • Principles of Mechanics (1754; 5e éd., 1825),
  • Navigation (1755),
  • Treatise on algebra (1764),
  • The Arithmetic of Infinities (1767),
  • Elements of optics (1767),
  • The laws of centripetal and centrifugal force (1769),
  • A System of Astronomy (1770),
  • Tracts (1770), etc. (L. S.).

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