A MATHEMATICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY:
CONTAINING AN EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS, AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL SUBJECTS,
COMPRIZED UNDER THE HEADS MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY, AND PHILOSOPHY BOTH NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL: WITH AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT STATE OF THESE SCIENCES: ALSO MEMOIRS OF THE LIVES AND WRITINGS OF THE MOST EMINENT AUTHORS, BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN, WHO BY THEIR DISCOVERIES OR IMPROVEMENTS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THEM.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
WITH MANY CUTS AND COPPER-PLATES.
[I do not have the illustrations; sorry! - Liam]
By CHARLES HUTTON, LL.D. F. R. SS. OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH, AND OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES OF HAARLEM AND AMERICA; AND PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICK.
LONDON: PRINTED BY J. DAVIS, FOR J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; AND G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, IN PATERNOSTER-ROW. M.DCC.XCVI.
I (Liam Quin) have made this online edition from another badly-tagged text. There are still many transcription errors too. I do not have a copy of the printed book right now, unfortunately. If you would like to send me one, I will photograph the pages and put them online!
Remember also that this text was written in (or before) 1795. It is online because it is still significant in the study of the history of mathematics and science, and also because there are references to it from Chalmer’s Biographical Dictionary.
You are welcome to link to these pages, but I would advise against copying the text onto places like Wikipedia: firstly, it's probably biased, and secondly, there are certainly many factual errors.
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