See also:

• SAUNDERSON, EDWARD JAMES (1837-1906)
• SAUNDERSON, or SANDERSON, NICHOLAS (1682-1739)

SAUNDERSON, or See also:

• SANDERSON, ROBERT (1587-1663)

SANDERSON, See also:

• NICHOLAS
• NICHOLAS (1841– )
• NICHOLAS (or NICLAES), HENRY (or HENDRIK) (c. 1501-C. 158o)
• NICHOLAS, SIR EDWARD (1593-1669)
• NICHOLAS, ST

NICHOLAS (1682-1739)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English mathematician, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Thurlstone, See also:

• YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire, in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1682 . When about a See also:

• YEAR

year old he lost his sight through smallpox; but this did not prevent him from acquiring a know-ledge of Latin and See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek, and studying See also:

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

mathematics . In 1707 he began lecturing at See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge on the principles of the Newtonian See also:

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

philosophy, and in See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1711 he succeeded See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• WHISTON, WILLIAM (1667-1752)

Whiston, the Lucasian See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of mathematics in Cambridge . He was created See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor of See also:

• LAWS

laws in 1728 by command of See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George II., and in 1736 was admitted a member of the Royal Society . He died of See also:

• SCURVY (Scorbutus)

scurvy, on the 19th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1739 . See also:

• SAUNDERSON, EDWARD JAMES (1837-1906)
• SAUNDERSON, or SANDERSON, NICHOLAS (1682-1739)

Saunderson possessed the friendship of many of the eminent mathematicians of the 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, such as See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac See also:

• NEWTON
• NEWTON, ALFRED (1829–1907)
• NEWTON, JOHN (1725-1807)
• NEWTON, JOHN (1823-1895)
• NEWTON, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (1816-1894)
• NEWTON, SIR ISAAC (1642-1727)

Newton, See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

Edmund See also:

• HALLEY, EDMUND (1656–1742)

Halley, See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham De Moivre and See also:

• ROGER (d. 1139)
• ROGER (d. 1181)

Roger See also:

• COTES, ROGER (1682-1716)

Cotes . His senses of See also:

• HEARING (formed from the verb " to hear," O. Eng. hyran, heron, &c., a common Teutonic verb; cf. Ger. Koren, Dutch hooren, &c.; the O. Tent. form is seen in Goth. hausjan; the initial h makes any connexion with " ear," Lat. audire, or Gr. &Kobew very doub

hearing and See also:

• TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch were extraordinarily acute, and he could carry on mentally See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and intricate mathematical calculations . He devised a calculating See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine or See also:

• ABACUS (Gr. 15t(34, a slab; Fr. abaque, tailloir)

abacus, by which he could perform arithmetical and algebraical operations by the sense of touch; this method is sometimes termed his palpable See also:

• ARITHMETIC (Gr. apeOµ7run7, sc. TEXVn, the art of counting, from (ipLBµos, number)

arithmetic, an See also:

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

account of which is given in his elaborate Elements of See also:

• ALGEBRA (from the Arab. al-jebr wa'l-mugabala, transposition and removal [of terms of an equation], the name of a treatise by Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi)

Algebra (2 vols., Cambridge, 174o) . Of his other writings, prepared for the use of his pupils, the only one which has been published is The Method of Fluxions (1 vol., Lon-See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

don, 1756) . At the end of this See also:

• TREATISE

treatise there is given, in Latin, an explanation of the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal propositions of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy .