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SAUNDERSON, or SANDERSON, NICHOLAS (1682-1739) , English
Cambridge on the principles of the Newtonian philosophy, and in November 1711 he succeeded William Whiston
Cambridge . He was created doctor
laws
Saunderson possessed the friendship of many of the eminent mathematicians of the time, such as Sir Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, Abraham De Moivre and Roger Cotes
touch were extraordinarily acute, and he could carry on mentally long and intricate mathematical calculations. He devised a calculating machine or abacus, by which he could perform arithmetical and algebraical operations by the sense of touch ; this method is sometimes termed his palpable arithmetic, an account of which is given in his elaborate Elements of 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-don, 1756). At the end of this treatise there is given, in Latin, an explanation of the principal
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