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Maclaurin in the power of making honey, they may also surpass him in capacity for those branches of mathematics with which it has been their business to be conversant during many millions of years, and also in knowledge of physiology and psychology in so far as the knowledge bears upon the interests of their own community.
WARING, England has produced no great geometricians since the death of MACLAURIN, STERLING, and SIMPSON. The French tables of Logarithms, printed stereotypically, are cleared of all the errors which afflicted calculators of every country. Those of other nations will owe this obligation to Frenchmen.
Scarce here and there one will be able to make out your face; all your opinions will be out of date, your jokes obsolete, your puns rejected with fastidiousness as wit of the last age. Your way of mathematics has already given way to a new method which, after all, is, I believe, the old doctrine of Maclaurin new-vamped up with what he borrowed of the negative quantity of fluxions from Euler.
KASTNER. A large walled-plain at the S. end of the Mare Smythii, too near the limb for satisfactory observation. MACLAURIN. The principal member of a group of irregular ring-plains on the W. side of the Mare Foecunditatis, a little S. of the lunar equator. Schmidt shows no details within it, except a small crater on the E. side of the floor.
In 1760 had appeared a Collection of Original Poems, published by Donaldson in Edinburgh on the model of Dodsley's Miscellanies. It comprised poems by Blacklock, Beattie, and others, and a second volume was issued by Erskine as editor in 1762. To it Boswell contributed nearly thirty pieces along with Home, the author of Douglas, Macpherson of Ossian fame or notoriety, John Maclaurin and others.
We laugh now at the narrow ideas of those days, which seemed to consider an observatory a lookout only; but the first step in a work is a great step the others are easily taken. There was added to the building of Maclaurin a very small transit room, and then the present edifice followed.
Maclaurin , advocate; Dr. Gregory, who now worthily fills his father's medical chair ; and my uncle, Dr. Boswell. This was one of Dr. Johnson's best days. He was quite in his element. All was literature and taste, without any interruption.
In Scotland and Protestant countries abroad, where a chair in a university is generally a better establishment than a benefice, by far the greater part of the most eminent men of letters have been professors. Wealth of Nations, v. i. iii. 3. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 17, 1773. Dr. Goldsmith was dead before Mr. Maclaurin discovered the ludicrous errour. But Mr.
One of Garrick's correspondents speaks of 'the sneer of one of Johnson's ghastly smiles. Garrick Corres. i. 334. 'Ghastly smile' is borrowed from Paradise Lost, ii. 846. See ante, iii. 212. In Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh, ii. 158, is given a comic poem entitled The Court of Session Garland, written by Boswell, with the help, it was said, of Maclaurin. Dr.
As soon as it seemed certain that the Highland army was approaching Edinburgh, preparations, frantic but spasmodic, were made to put the city in a state of defence. The patriotic and spirited Maclaurin, professor of mathematics, alone and unaided, tried to mount cannons on the wall, but not with much success.
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