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Abstract
Between 1809 and 1820, Thomas Knight (1775–1853) published quite a few papers on mathematics and its applications. These show him to have been surprisingly well-versed in French analytical mathematics at a time when French works were little read by his British contemporaries. In BSHM Bulletin 2, Gloria Edwards and I published a paper (Craik and Edwards Citation2004) entitled ‘In search of Thomas Knight’, designated below as ‘[1]’, that examined Knight’s life and work. This follow-up paper gives further biographical information that links him with Edinburgh; it describes some more of his publications that were previously overlooked (for notice of the latter, I am grateful to a correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous); and it records some remarks about his work by his contemporaries.
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Gloria Edwards and Tim Serisier for genealogical data on the Knight family, to staff of University of Edinburgh Library Special Collections, and to a correspondent who drew attention to further publications by Thomas Knight.
Notes
1A full account of the known contributors to the Monthly Review is in Nangle (Citation1955).