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WYLIE, ALEXANDER (1815-1887)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 872 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WYLIE, ALEXANDER (1815-1887) , British missionary, was born in London on the 6th of April 1815, and went to school at Drumlithie,
Kincardineshire
 , and at Chelsea. While apprenticed to a cabinet-maker he picked up a Chinese grammar written in Latin, and after mastering the latter tongue made such good progress with the former, that in 1846 James
Legge
  engaged him to superintend the London Missionary Society's
press
  at Shanghai. In this position he acquired a wide knowledge of Chinese religion and civilization, and especially of their mathematics, so that he was able to show that Sir George Horner's method (1819) of solving equations of all orders had. been known to the Chinese mathematicians of the 14th century. He made several journeys into the interior, notably in 1858 with Lord
Elgin
  up the Yang-tsze and in 1868 with Griffith John to the
capital
  of Sze-ch'uen and the source of the Han. From 1863 he was an agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He settled in London in 1877, and died on the loth of
February
  1887.
In Chinese he published books on arithmetic, geometry, algebra (De
Morgan
 's),
mechanics
 , astronomy (Herschel's), and The Marine Steanz
Engine
  (T. J. Main and T. Brown), as well as translations of the first two gospels. In English his
chief
  works were Notes on Chinese Literature (Shanghai, 1867), and scattered articles collected under the title Chinese Researches by A,exander Wylie (Shanghai, 1897).
See H. Cordier, Life and Labours of A. Wylie (1887).


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