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STIRLING, JAMES (1692-1770) , Scottish mathematician, third son of Archibald Stirling of Garden, and grandson of Sir Archibald Stirling of Keir (Lord Garden, a lord of session), was born at Garden, Stirlingshire, in 1692. At eighteen years of age he went to Oxford, where, chiefly through the influence of the earl
paper entitled " Methodus differentialis Newtoniana illustrata" (Phil. Trans., 1718). Fearing assassination on account of having discovered a trade secret of the glass-makers of Venice, he returned with Newton's help to London about the year 1725. In London he remained for ten years, being most part of the time connected with an academy in Tower Street, and devoting his leisure to mathematics and correspondence with eminent mathematicians. In 1730 his most important work
paper of 1718. In 1735 he communicated to the Royal Society a paper " On the Figure of the Earth, and on the Variation of the Force of Gravity at its Surface." In the same year he was appointed manager for the Scots Mining Company at Ieadhills. We are thus prepared to find that his next paper to the Royal Society was concerned, not with pure, but with applied science" Description of a Machine to blow Fire by the Fall of Water " (Phil. Trans. 1745). His name is also connected with another practical
See W. Fraser, The Stirlings of Keir, and their Family Papers, (Edinburgh, 1858) ; " Modern History of Leadhills," in Gentleman
Brewster , Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton, ii. 300, 307, 411, 516; J. Nicol
Another edition of the Lineae tertii ordinis was published in Paris in 1797; another edition of the Methodus differentialis in London in 1764; and a translation of the latter into English by Halliday in London in 1749. A considerable collection of literary remains, consisting of papers, letters and two manuscript volumes of a treatise on weights and measures
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