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EMERSON, WILLIAM (1701-1782)

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 335 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS
EMERSON, WILLIAM (1701-1782) ,
English
  mathematician, was born on the 14th of May 1701 at Hurworth, near Darlington, where his father, Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school. Unsuccessful as a teacher he devoted himself entirely to studious retirement, and published many works which are singularly free from errata. In
mechanics
  he never advanced a proposition which he had not previously tested in practice, nor published an invention without first proving its effects by a model. He was skilled in the science of music, the theory of sounds, and the ancient and
modern
  scales; but he never attained any excellence as a performer. He died on the loth of May 1782 at his native
village
 . Emerson was eccentric and indeed clownish, but he possessed remarkable independence of
character
  and intellectual energy. The boldness with which he expressed his opinions on religious subjects led to his being charged with scepticism, but for this there was no
foundation
 .
Emerson's works include The
Doctrine
  of Fluxions (1748) ; The Projection of the Sphere, Orthographic, Stereographic and Gnomical (1749) ; The Elements of Trigonometry_ (1749) ; The Principles of
Mechanics
  (1754) ; A Treatise of Navigation (1755); A Treatise of Algebra, in two books (1765) ; The Arithmetic of Infinites, and the Differential Method, illustrated by Examples (1767) ; Mechanics, or the
Doctrine
  of Motion (1769); The Elements of Optics, in four books (1768) ; .4
System
  of Astronomy (1769) ; The
Laws
  of Centripetal and Centrifugal Force (1769); The Mathematical Principles of Geography (1770) ; Tracts (1770) ; Cyclomathesis, or an Easy Introduction to the several branches of the
Mathematics
  (1770), in ten vols.; A Short Comment on Sir Isaac Newton's Principia; to which is added, A Defence of Sir Isaac against the objections that have been made to several parts of his works (1770) ; A Miscellaneous Treatise containing several Mathematical Subjects (1776).


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