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A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive, Vol. 1: Containing the Theory of Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, and Pneumatics
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Allow me, my lord, publicly to thank you for the numerous favours you have conferred upon me in different periods of my life, and to subscribe myself, with unfeigned respect, and the sincerest gratitude....
Allow me, my lord, publicly to thank you for the numerous favours you have conferred upon me in different periods of my life, and to subscribe myself, with unfeigned respect, and the sincerest gratitude....
570 pages, Hardcover
Published August 24, 2018
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Olinthus Gregory
211 booksOlinthus Gilbert Gregory (29 January 1774 – 2 February 1841) was an English mathematician, author and editor.
He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire. Having been educated by Richard Weston, a Leicester botanist, in 1793 he published a treatise, Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical. Having settled at Cambridge in 1796, Gregory first acted as sub-editor on the Cambridge Intelligencer, and then opened a booksellers shop. In 1802 he obtained an appointment as mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich through the influence of Charles Hutton, to whose notice he had been brought by a manuscript on the Use of the Sliding Rule; and when Hutton resigned in 1807 Gregory succeeded him in the professorship. Failing health obliged him to retire in 1838, and he died at Woolwich on 2 February 1841.
He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire. Having been educated by Richard Weston, a Leicester botanist, in 1793 he published a treatise, Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical. Having settled at Cambridge in 1796, Gregory first acted as sub-editor on the Cambridge Intelligencer, and then opened a booksellers shop. In 1802 he obtained an appointment as mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich through the influence of Charles Hutton, to whose notice he had been brought by a manuscript on the Use of the Sliding Rule; and when Hutton resigned in 1807 Gregory succeeded him in the professorship. Failing health obliged him to retire in 1838, and he died at Woolwich on 2 February 1841.
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