See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

PETER See also:

• BARLOW, JOEL (1754-1812)
• PETER BARLOW (1776-1862)
• BARLOW, SIR GEORGE HILARO (1762-1847)

BARLOW (1776-1862)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English writer on pure and applied See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• NORWICH
• NORWICH, GEORGE GORING, EARL OF (1583?-1663)

Norwich in 1776 and died on the 1st of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1862 . In 18o6 he was appointed mathematical See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master in the See also:

• WOOLWICH

Woolwich See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, and filled that See also:

• POST

post for See also:

• FORTY

forty-one years . In 1823 he was made a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of the Royal Society, and two years later received the See also:

• COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON (1737—1815)

Copley See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal . See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

Steam loco-See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion received much See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention at his hands, and he sat on the railway commissions of 1836, 1839, 1842, 1845 . He received many distinctions from See also:

• BRITISH

British and See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign scientific See also:

• SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies . See also:

• BARLOW, JOEL (1754-1812)
• BARLOW, PETER (1776-1862)
• BARLOW, SIR GEORGE HILARO (1762-1847)

Barlow's See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORKS

works are—Elementary Investigation of the Theory of See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

Numbers (1811); New Mathematical and Philosophical See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary (1814); See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

Essay on Magnetic Attractions (1820) . The investigations on See also:

• MAGNETISM
• MAGNETISM, TERRESTRIAL

magnetism led to the important See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of a means of rectifying or compensating See also:

• COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass errors in See also:

• SHIPS

ships . Besides compiling numerous useful tables, he contributed largely to the See also:

• ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana .