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Original Articles

In search of Thomas Knight: Part 2

Pages 124-131 | Published online: 03 Jul 2013

References

  • (Those of Knight’s publications absent from the list in [1] are prefixed by an asterisk below.)
  • Anon [Robert Woodhouse] . 1812a . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the Year 1811 . Monthly Review or Literary Journal New Series , 67 : 254 – 261 . (March)
  • Anon . 1813 . “ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the Year 1811 ” . In The Critical Review, or, Annals of Literature Series 4 Vol. 1 , 379 – 388 . (No, April 1812) 4
  • Anon . 1813 . “ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the Year 1812 Part II ” . In The Critical Review, or, Annals of Literature Series 4 Vol. 4 , 33 – 49 . 1
  • Anon . 1814 . “ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the Year 1812 Part II ” . In Monthly Review or Literary Journal New Series Vol. 73 , 374 – 391 . (April)
  • Anon . 1817 . “ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the Year 1816. Part II ” . In Monthly Review, or Literary Journal New Series Vol. 83 , 48 – 58 . (May)
  • Anon . 1818 . “ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the Year 1817. Part II ” . In Monthly Review, or Literary Journal New Series Vol. 85 , 254 – 261 . (March)
  • Craik , Alex D D . 2000 . “ Geometry versus analysis in early 19th century Scotland: William Wallace, John Leslie and Thomas Carlyle ” . In Historia Mathematica Vol. 27 , 133 – 163 .
  • Craik , Alex D D . 2010 . “ Thomas Young on fluid mechanics ” . In Journal of Engineering Mathematics Vol. 67 , 95 – 113 .
  • Craik , Alex D D . 2013 . Polylogarithms, functional equations and more: the elusive essays of William Spence (1777–1815) submitted to Historia Mathematica
  • Craik , Alex D D and Edwards , Gloria . 2004 . “ In search of Thomas Knight ” . In BSHM Bulletin Vol. 2 , 17 – 27 . denoted [I]
  • Edinburgh Matriculation Register (mss.) , Vol. 34 , 1795 – 98 . University of Edinburgh Library Special Collections, Da .
  • Family History and Genealogy . 2013a . Thomas Knight of Papcastle, Mathematician http://www.rootsandleaves.com/family/Knight/FeaturePages/ThomasKnightMathematician/ThomasKnightMathematician.html (accessed January 13, 2013)
  • Family History and Genealogy . 2013b . Thomas Knight and Isabella Walker http://www.rootsandleaves.com/family/Knight/FeaturedFamilies/ThomasKnightIsabellaWalker/ThomasKnightIsabellaWalker.html(accessed January 13, 2013).
  • Ivory , James . 1822 . “ On the theory of parallel lines in geometry ” . In Philosophical Magazine Vol. 59 , 161 – 167 .
  • *Knight , Thomas . 1809a . “ On the attraction of an infinite solid elliptic cylinder ” . In Leybourn’s Mathematical Repository, New Series 50 – 53 . 2 Pt II (Original Essays XIII)
  • *Knight , Thomas . 1809b . “ Mr Knight on the proportionality of the force to the velocity, and on the composition of forces ” . In Leybourn’s Mathematical Repository, New Series 58 – 61 . 2 Pt II (Original Essays XV
  • *Knight , Thomas . 1809c . “ On the composition of rotating motions ” . In Leybourn’s Mathematical Repository, New Series 62 – 64 . 2 Pt II (Original Essays XVI)
  • *Knight , Thomas . 1809d . “ Mr Knight on the binomial theorem ” . In Leybourn’s Mathematical Repository, New Series 74 – 76 . 2 Pt II (Original Essays XX)
  • Knight , Thomas . 1810 . “ Remarks on a new principle introduced by Legendre in his “Elements of Geometry” . In A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts (Nicholson’s Journal), New Series Vol. 27 , 285 – 287 .
  • Knight , Thomas . 1811 . “ On the expansion of any functions of multinomials ” . In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Vol. 101 , 49 – 88 .
  • Knight , Thomas . 1812a . “ Of the attraction of such solids as are terminated by planes; and of solids of greatest attraction ” . In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Vol. 102 , 247 – 309 .
  • Knight , Thomas . 1812b . “ Of the penetration of a hemisphere by an indefinite number of equal and similar cylinders ” . In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Vol. 102 , 310 – 313 .
  • Knight , Thomas . 1814 . “ Mr Knight on the binomial theorem and the logarithmic series [letter dated Oct. 30, 1809] ” . In Leybourn’s Mathematical Repository, New Series 8 – 10 . 3 Pt II (Original Essays II)
  • Knight , Thomas . 1816 . “ A new demonstration of the binomial theorem ” . In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Vol. 106 , 331 – 334 .
  • Knight , Thomas . 1817a . “ Note respecting the demonstration of the binomial theorem inserted in the last volume of the Philosophical Transactions ” . In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Vol. 107 , 245 – 251 .
  • Knight , Thomas . 1817b . “ Of the construction of logarithmic tables ” . In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Vol. 107 , 217 – 233 .
  • Knight , Thomas . 1817c . “ Two general propositions in the method of differences ” . In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Vol. 107 , 234 – 244 .
  • *Knight , Thomas . 1819 . “ Four Papers on the Summation of Series, &c ” . In Leybourn’s Mathematical Repository, New Series 78 – 116 . 4 Pt II (Original Essays XX)
  • *Knight , Thomas . 1830 . “ On the composition of forces [written c 1820] ” . In Leybourn’s Mathematical Repository, New Series 1 – 3 . 5 Pt II (Original Essays I)
  • Legendre , Adrien-Marie . 1794 . Éléments de géométrie… , Paris : Firmin Didot .
  • Legendre , Adrien-Marie . 1824 . Elements of geometry and trigonometry, with notes , Edited by: Brewster , D . Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd . trans [Thomas Carlyle] with additions
  • Leslie , John . 1811 . Elements of geometry, geometrical analysis & plane trigonometry , 2nd edition , Edinburgh : Ballantyne .
  • Nangle , Benjamin C . 1955 . The monthly review, second series 1790–1815: indexes of contributors and articles , Clarendon Press .
  • Old Parochial Register . 1797 . Mss. Register of Banns and Marriages, Parish of Currie, Midlothian, 1 October
  • Playfair , John . 1822 . “ On the solids of greatest attraction, or those which, among all solids that have certain properties, attract with the greatest force in a given direction ” . In Transactions – Royal Society of Edinburgh Vol. 6 , 187 – 244 . (read 1807). Also in The works of John Playfair, Esq. 4 vols, Constable, Edinburgh and Hurst, Robinson, London, 1822, vol 3, 317-377
  • Playfair , John . 1809b . “ Review of “Le compte rendu par l’Institut de France” . In Edinburgh Review Vol. 15 , 333 – 379 . Also in The works of John Playfair, Esq. 4 vols, Constable, Edinburgh and Hurst, Robinson, London, 1822, vol 4
  • Playfair , John . 1812 . “ Review of John Leslie’s Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis & Plane Trigonometry, 2nd edition ” . In Edinburgh Review Vol. 20 , 79 – 100 . 39
  • Rowlinson , John S . 2002 . Cohesion: a scientific history of intermolecular forces , Cambridge University Press .
  • Spence , William . 1809 . Essay on the theory of the various orders of logarithmic transcendents: with an inquiry into their applications to the integral calculus and the summation of series Murray, London and Constable, Edinburgh,
  • Spence , William . 1809 . Mathematical essays of the late William Spence, Esq. edited by John F. W. Herschel, Esq., with a biographical sketch of the author Edited by: Moyes , J . London printed by for T and G Underwood,. Also ibid., for Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and G & W B Whittaker, London, 1820
  • Todhunter , Isaac . 1873 . A history of the mathematical theories of attraction and the figure of the Earth , London : Macmillan . Also Dover reprint, 1962
  • 2013 . Websites http://www.rootsandleaves.com/family/Knight/KnightHomePage.html (accessed January 13)

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