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PETER BARLOW (1776-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 407 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER
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BARLOW (1776-1862)  ,
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English writer on pure and applied
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mathematics, was
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born at
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Norwich in 1776 and died on the 1st of
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March 1862 . In 18o6 he was appointed mathematical
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master in the
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Woolwich
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Academy, and filled that
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post for
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forty-one years . In 1823 he was made a
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fellow of the Royal Society, and two years later received the
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Copley
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medal .
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Steam loco-
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motion received much
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attention at his hands, and he sat on the railway commissions of 1836, 1839, 1842, 1845 . He received many distinctions from
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British and
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foreign scientific
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societies .
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Barlow's
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principal
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works are—Elementary Investigation of the Theory of
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Numbers (1811); New Mathematical and Philosophical
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Dictionary (1814);
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Essay on Magnetic Attractions (1820) . The investigations on
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magnetism led to the important
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practical
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discovery of a means of rectifying or compensating
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compass errors in
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ships . Besides compiling numerous useful tables, he contributed largely to the
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Encyclopaedia Metropolitana .

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