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THOMAS GALLOWAY (1796-1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 422 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:GALLOWAY (1796-1851)  , Scottish mathematician, was See also:born at Symington, See also:Lanarkshire, on the 26th of See also:February 1796 . In 1812 he entered the university of See also:Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself specially in See also:mathematics . In 1823 he was appointed one of the teachers of mathematics at the military See also:college of See also:Sandhurst, and in 1833 he was appointed See also:actuary to the Amicable See also:Life Assurance See also:Office, the See also:oldest institution of that See also:kind in See also:London; in which situation he remained till his See also:death on the 1st of See also:November 1851 . See also:Galloway was a voluminous, though, for the most See also:part, an See also:anonymous writer . His most interesting See also:paper is " On the Proper See also:Motion of the See also:Solar See also:System," and was published in the Phil . Trans., 1847 . He contributed largely to the seventh edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, and also wrote several scientific papers for the Edinburgh See also:Review and various scientific See also:journals . His Encyclopaedia See also:article, " See also:Probability," was published separately . See Transactions of the Royal Astronomical Society (1852) .

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