See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• LESLIE
• LESLIE, CHARLES (1650-1722)
• LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (1794–1859)
• LESLIE, FRED [FREDERICK HOBSON] (1855–1892)
• SIR JOHN LESLIE (1766-1832)
• LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (1827-1882)

LESLIE (1766-1832)  , Scottish mathematician and physicist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of humble parentage at Largo, Fifeshire, on the 16th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1766, and received his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• EDUCATION

education there and at See also:

• LEVEN
• LEVEN, ALEXANDER LESLIE, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1580-1661)
• LEVEN, LOCH

Leven . In his thirteenth See also:

• YEAR

year, encouraged by See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends who had even then remarked his aptitude for mathematical and See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, he entered the university of St See also:

• ANDREWS, JAMES PETTIT (c. 1737–1797)
• ANDREWS, THOMAS (1813–1885)

Andrews . On the completion of his arts course, he nominally studied divinity at See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh until 1787; in 1788–1789 he spent rather more than a year as private See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor in a Virginian See also:

• FAMILY

family, and from 1790 till the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of 1792 he held a similar See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment at See also:

• ETRURIA

Etruria in See also:

• STAFFORDSHIRE

Staffordshire, with the family of See also:

• JOSIAH (Heb. yo' shiyydhu, perhaps " Yah [weh] supports ")

Josiah See also:

• WEDGWOOD, JOSIAH (1730-1795)

Wedgwood, employing his spare See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in experimental See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research and in preparing a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of See also:

• BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE (1707-1788)

Buffon's Natural See also:

• HISTORY

History of Birds, which was published in nine 8vo vols. in 1793, and brought him some See also:

• MONEY

money . For the next twelve years (passed chiefly in See also:

• LONDON

London or at Largo, with an occasional visit to the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe) he continued his physical studies, which resulted in numerous papers contributed by him to See also:

• NICHOLSON, HENRY ALLEYNE (1844-1899)
• NICHOLSON, JOHN (1822-18J7)
• NICHOLSON, WILLIAM (1753-1815)
• NICHOLSON, WILLIAM (1784-1844)

Nicholson's Philosophical See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal, and in the publication (1804) of the Experimental Inquiry into the Nature end Properties of See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

Heat, a See also:

• WORK

work which gained him the See also:

• RUMFORD, BENJAMIN THOMPSON, COUNT (1753-1814)

Rumford See also:

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

Medal of the Royal Society of London . In 18o5 he was elected See also:

• BURGH [BOURKE, BURKE]
• BURGH, HUBERT DE (d. 1243)

burgh, not, however, without violent though unsuccessful opposition on the See also:

• PART

part of a narrow-minded clerical party who accused him of See also:

• HERESY

heresy in something he had said as to the " unsophisticated notions of mankind " about the relation of cause and effect . During his See also:

• TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenure of this See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair he published two volumes of a Course of See also:

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

Mathematics--the first, entitled Elements of See also:

• GEOMETRY

Geometry, Geometrical See also:

• ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

Analysis and See also:

• PLANE

Plane See also:

• TRIGONOMETRY (from Gr. rpiywvov, a triangle, /ATpov, measure)

Trigonometry, in 1809, and the second, Geometry of See also:

• CURVE (Lat. curvus, bent)

Curve Lines, in 1813; the third See also:

• VOLUME

volume, on Descriptive Geometry and the Theory of Solids was never completed . With reference to his invention (in 181o) of a See also:

• PROCESS

process of artificial congelation, he published in 1813 A See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

Short See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

Account of Experiments and See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

Instruments depending on the relations of See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

Air to Heat and Moisture; and in 1818 a See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper by him " On certain impressions of See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold transmitted from the higher See also:

• ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere, with an See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument (the aethrioscope) adapted to measure them," appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1819, on the See also:

• DEATH

death of See also:

• PLAYFAIR, JOHN (1748-1819)
• PLAYFAIR, LYON PLAYFAIR

Playfair, he was promoted to the more congenial chair of natural See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, which he continued to hold until his death, and in 1823 he published, chiefly for the use of his class, the first volume of his never-completed Elements of Natural Philosophy . See also:

• LESLIE
• LESLIE, CHARLES (1650-1722)
• LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (1794–1859)
• LESLIE, FRED [FREDERICK HOBSON] (1855–1892)
• LESLIE, SIR JOHN (1766-1832)
• LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (1827-1882)

Leslie's See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main contributions to physics were made by the help of the " See also:

• DIFFERENTIAL

differential thermometer," an instrument whose invention was contested with him by See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count Rumford . By adapting to this instrument various ingenious devices he was enabled to employ it in a See also:

• GREAT

great variety of investigations, connected especially with See also:

• PHOTOMETRY (from Gr. (Pews, xarrbs, light, µerpov, a measure)

photometry, hygroscopy and the temperature of space . In 182o he was elected a corresponding member of the See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, the only distinction of the See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind which he valued, and early in 1832 he was created a See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

knight . He died at Coates, a small See also:

• PROPERTY

property which he had acquired near Largo, on the 3rd of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1832 .