Viscount -- Encyclopædia Britannica , william, Viscount brouncker (c.1620 1684) School of Mathematics, Trinity College,Dublin Brief note of this 17th century English mathematician who was one http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=77502
Victoria And Area Pioneers Watson, Herbert Nicols (Dr.), 377. Watson, John Henry brouncker, 540. Watson, Lottie,390. Webb, Fred, 241. Webb, Joseph william, 459. Webb, Linda, 459. Webber, Kenneth,21. http://www.victoriags.org/pioneer/p-6.shtml
Extractions: Homepage Executive Library Sigs ... Victoria and Saanich Pioneers Index Underwood, Gus Underwood, Harry Underwood, Herman Underwood, Johnnie Underwood, Reg Underwood, Sadie Underwood, Tony Underwood, Vivian Usher, Fred Vantreight, Edgar Vantreight, Edith Vantreight, Ethel Vantreight, Evelyn Vantreight, Gerald Vantreight, Maude Vantreight, Sydney Vantright, Arabella Vantright, Eily Vantright, Florence Vantright, Geoffrey Vantright, George Vantright, John Vantright, Robert Vase, Ellen Veitch, Elizabeth Veitch, William Venables, Jeff Venn, James Joseph Verdier, Agnes Verdier, Alphonse Verdier, Elizabeth Verdier, Frank Verdier, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Verdier, Julius Verdier, Marie Verdier, Marie Vernon, F.G. (Hon.) Vetter, Eliese Vincent, John Vine, Edward Vine, Mary Ann Virgin, Victor Virtue, Joe Virtue, John Vogel, A. John Von Holstein-Rathlou, Helena Voss, J.C. Vye, Alexander Vye, Garfield Vye, Herbert Vye, J.P. Vye, Margaret Vye, William Waddington, Alfred Penderill Waddington, Guy Wade, Mark S. Wadhams, Edmund Abraham Wadman, J.W. Rev.) Wain, Alexander Wain, Alice
F. BACON, ICONOCLASTIC HERALD Founder and Patron, on a pedestal on the left is the figure of the first FRS, theIrish mathematician william brouncker; on the right, that of Francis Bacon http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1989/PSCF6-89Seeger.html
Extractions: Science in Christian Perspective F. BACON, ICONOCLASTIC HERALD Raymond J. Seeger 4507 Wetherill Road Bethesda, MD 20816 From: PSCF (June 1989): 107-108. J ohn Evelyn's frontispiece in the "History of the Royal Society" (1667) by Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, depicts a bust of Charles 11. Founder and Patron, on a pedestal: on the left is the figure of the first F.R.S., the Irish mathematician William Brouncker; on the right, that of Francis Bacon, Artium Instouratio (restorer of the arts). In the preface the poet Abraham Cowley F.R.S., in his "Ode to the Royal Society," wrote: "Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last." Sprat confessed that he himself would have preferred "no other preface but some of Bacon's writings." Bacon was basically a contemplative philosopher, but he chose to be a man of affairs in the world-he had two conflicting ambitions, to hold books and to raise a gavel. Although he became successfully Sir Francis at 42, Baron Verulam of Verulam (after the capital of Roman Britain) at 57, and Viscount St. Albans at 60, he is represented more truthfully by his burial monument in St. Michael's Church, St. Albans, with the inscription: "sic sedebat" ("thus he used to sit"). He was born January 21, 1561 in York House, London. His father, Sir Nicholas, was Lord Keeper of the Seal. He was from landed gentry; his favorite abode was Gorhamsbury, 2 miles from St. Albans. At 13 Francis entered Trinity College, University of Cambridge; a stronghold of the English Protestant Reformation. A good, but not outstanding student, he left without a degree two years later. He was unreliable with his many benefactions to Trinity, but a statue of him stands in its ante-chapel. His
Fellows Of The Royal Society william brouncker 22 Apr 1663 Robert Boyle 22 Apr 1663 John Wilkins 22 Apr 1663Isaac Barrow 20 May 1663 Robert Hooke 20 May 1663 william Neile 20 May 1663 http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C09/C09Links/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/7Ehistor
Extractions: The list of fellows given below is only those scientists elected Fellows of the Royal Society whose biographies appear in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, together with some present day mathematicians. The list also gives their date of their election to the Society. William Brouncker 22 Apr 1663
MELKSHAM william was Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1580 and a Member of Parliament in 1586. of Munsterin Ireland and was the grandfather of Viscount brouncker who was the http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/wiltshire/melksham.htm
Extractions: OAS_AD('Top'); Melksham Melksham, a town created at a ford across the Avon River, was a Royal Estate at the time of the Norman Conquest. It's assumed the name is derived from the words 'meolc' and 'ham', Old English for milk and village, respectively. The Domesday Survey lists Melksham as having 130 acres of water meadows, 8 leagues of pasture in length and breadth and 8 mills. There were 189 landholders, 19 ploughmen and 35 serfs within a population of several hundred souls. Melksham's medieval forest adjoined the farmland and covered 33 square miles when combined with Chippenham Forest, running from Semington in the west to Calne in the east, being administered by the Constable of Devizes Castle. King John visited Melksham Forest several times during the early 13th Century in pursuit of his favourite sport, hunting. Melksham was considered important enough in 1219 to be granted a Charter to run a market every Friday, later changed to a Tuesday, and hold a fair each September on Michaelmas Day, the 29th. A year later, forest oaks were used to make choir stalls for Salisbury's new cathedral. Melksham's connection with this mighty edifice was due to an endowment from part of its parish, supporting the Cathedral Canons. In 1257, the greater part of the manor was gifted to Amesbury Abbey by King Henry III, so for nearly 300 years until the dissolution of the abbey in 1539, Melksham cheese, fleeces and cattle, were sent across Salisbury Plain.
Moon In the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat s History of the Royal Society there Is a groupof three people william brouncker, the first president on the right, A http://www.sirbacon.org/moon.html
Extractions: by Mather Walker A mong other credit due Francis Bacon, is the fact that when life gave him a lemon, he made lemonade. Banished from his rightful title as the son of Queen Elizabeth, heir to the throne of England, doomed to live in the shadows, he created his own shadow kingdom. When he proclaimed that he had taken all knowledge for his province, he also proclaimed, in his enigmatic way, a new title for himself. This is clearly shown in the symbolic title page of the De Augmentis: The visible world is the world of the sun, but the intellectual world, of which Bacon has proclaimed himself ruler, is shadowed, and is the world of the moon. Bacon became the Moon Man, the man of the shadows. In the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society there Is a group of three people: William Brouncker, the first president on the right, A bust of Charles II, the royal founder in the middle, and to the left, beneath the wing of a prominent angel, holding a trumpet, is Francis Bacon, and he is ENTIRELY IN THE SHADOW. It should be noted also that Bacon was of the lineage of Selena. For it
Chronology Of Pure And Applied Mathematics 1668, Nicholas Mercator and william brouncker discover an infinite series for thelogarithm while attempting to calculate the area under a hyperbolic segment. http://www.3rd1000.com/chronology/chrono23.htm
Extractions: Chronology of Pure and Applied Mathematics Egyptian mathematicians employ primitive fractions. Pythagoras studies propositional geometry and vibrating lyre strings. Eudoxus states the method of exhaustion for area determination. Aristotle discusses logical reasoning in Organon. Euclid studies geometry as an axiomatic system in Elements and states the law of reflection in Catoptrics. Archimedes computes pi to two decimal places using inscribed and cirumscribed polygons and computes the area under a parabolic segment. Apollonius writes On Conic Sections and names the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola. Diophantus writes Arithmetica, the first systematic treatise on algebra. Tsu Ch'ung-Chih and Tsu Keng-Chih compute pi to six decimal places. Hindu mathematicians give zero a numeral representation in a positional notation system. Leonardo Fibonacci demonstrates the utility of Arabic numerals in his Book of the Abacus. Ghiyathal-Kashi computes pi to sixteen decimal places using inscribed and cirumscribed polygons. Scipione Ferro develops a method for solving cubic equations.
Boyle Workdiaries Index Of References Broghill, Roger Boyle, Baron WD 43A WD 4-3B WD 4-6A. Brosse, Guy de laWD 22-143. Brounckner, william, Viscount brouncker WD 21-187 WD 29-229a. http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/boyle/boyle_ref.htm
Extractions: E arly E nglish B ooks O nline, or EEBO , represents one of the premier scholarly resources for scholars, teachers, and students interested in primary printed sources of the Early Modern period, including the Scientific Revolution (Copernicus to Newton). What follows is a detailed introduction and overview of some of the holdings of EEBO . For the convenience of the reader, the titles of available printed works have been arranged chronologically by topic. Some of the categories are, or will appear, anachronistic. These listings are nevertheless intended to provide a clearer idea of the precise holdings of EEBO and to guide and direct potential users of the site. Please note that
Infinite Expressions For Pi william brouncker (ca. 1660 s) rewrote Wallis formula as a continued fraction,which Wallis and later Euler (1775) proved to be equivalent. http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/expresspi.html
Sir Robert Moray on 27th July, 1647, on the occasion of the admission of william Maxwell, doctor Suchmen as Wren, Ashmole, brouncker, and others, all of whom are accredited http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/Writings/moray_r.html
Extractions: INDEX OF PAPERS The first recorded initiation in England At Neucastell the 20 day off May, 1641. The quilk day ane serten nomber off Mester and others being lafule conveined, doeth admit Mr the Right Honerabell Mr Robert Moray, General quarter Mr to the Armie of Scotlan, and the same bing aproven be the hell Mester off the Mesone of the Log off Edenroth, quherto they heaue set to ther handes or markes. A. Hamilton, R. Moray, Johne Mylln. James Hamilton. Thus runs the entry of the first ascertained recorded Masonic initiation on English soil into Speculative Freemasonry. It is the record of the initiation of one of the most remarkable men of his time. His name, by writers other than himself - for he always signed his name in bold characters as R. Moray - is spelt variously as Moray, Murray, and Murrey, and a singular mistake occurs in the standard edition of Evelyn's Diary, where the entries occur as Murray, while in the Correspondence, the only letter that appears from Moray is, of course, signed in the correct manner, with the result that both forms appear in the General Index. In Chester's Registers of Westminster he is described as a son of Sir Robert Moray of Craigie, by a daughter of George Halket, of Pitferran, but Burke's History of the Landed Gentry and other authoritative works of reference state that he was a son of Sir Mungo Murray, and this undoubtedly is correct. Sir Robert Moray was a descendant of an ancient and noble Highland family. He was educated partly at the University of St. Andrew's and partly in France, in which country he secured military employment under Louis XIII. He gained very high favour with Cardinal Richelieu, to such a degree that French historians have remarked that few foreigners were so highly esteemed by that great minister as was he. It was possibly through the influence of the all-powerful Cardinal-statesman that Moray was raised to the rank of Colonel in the French army. When, however, the difficulties of Charles I increased, Moray returned to Scotland and was appointed General of Ordnance when the Presbyterians first set up and maintained their government. He was in charge of the Scottish army at Newcastle at the time of his initiation, which took place two months before that city was evacuated by the soldiers. Moray was knighted at Oxford on 10th of January, 1643, by Charles I.
ALBEVILLE MSS. The correspondents in the collection include John Abell; william brouncker, 2ndviscount brouncker; Sir Richard Bulstrode; Michael Carney; Thomas Coxe; Sir http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/albeville.html
Extractions: The Albeville mss., 1653-1690, consist of letters to Ignatius White, marquis d'Albeville, and other documents, relating primarily to the Revolution of 1688 in Great Britain. Ignatius White, one of six brothers, was born in Ireland about 1626. White and some of his brothers were acting as spies for various European governments by the mid-1650's and raising troops for the Spanish army. White also performed some diplomatic services for the British government. In 1679 he was made the Marquis d'Albeville by Emperor Leopold. Upon James II's accession to the British throne, Albeville became a royal advisor and in 1687 went to the Hague as envoy extraordinary. After the revolution, Albeville followed James into exile at St. Germain and died there in 1694. [For more information about Albeville's life, see E.S. De Beer, "The Marquis of Albeville and his brothers," English Historical Review, vol. XLV, no. 179 (July 1930), pp. 397-408 (D1 .E5).] The collection is made up largely of letters written to Albeville during his residence at the Hague. These letters were written by persons in England and on the continent and contain many details of current happenings. The letters of Sir George Etherege, James Vernon, Sir Peter Wyche and Robert Yard particularly have information of day-to-day events that make them useful for the study of both political and social history of the period. While not all the correspondence is addressed to Albeville, it was assumed that all unaddressed letters were intended for him. Many of the letters had both Old Style and New Style dating; in those instances the more appropriate dates were chosen for indexing and filing purposes. The letters of James Vernon were dated from information contained in Narcissus Luttrell, A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714. Oxford, At the University Press, 1857. Vol. I (DA430 .L9). The letters of Sir George Etherege of June 23, 1687 and February 5, March 1, March 4 and March 11, 1688 have been published in Sir George Etherege, The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. by Sybil Rosenfeld, London, Humphrey Milford, 1928 (DA452 .E8), on pp. 217-20, 321,330-32, 333-34, and 339.
Information Headquarters: Royal Society Learning . This group included Christopher Wren himself, Robert Boyle,John Wilkins, Robert Moray, and william, Viscount brouncker. The http://www.informationheadquarters.com/Radio/Royal_Society.shtml
Voyages In Time ~ Family, Friends & Places Additionally, there lived also a Richard Smythe who was born in about 1460 thesame approximate year as william Smyth/e He married Jane (of) brouncker. http://www.zip.com.au/~lnbdds/home/smithdike.htm
Extractions: In Search of William Smithdike Portions of the following text are adapted from the Family History of David Smyth, a descendant of this line. To read his comprehensive analysis of the Smyth family of Ireland, beginning with the mysterious William Smithdike, click on the 'Rosedale Spot' on the map adjacent. Ancestor Index Access to the line of Dyke -Acland and Acland of Devon - which family lineage is considered as it relates to Smith, Barons Hambleden. This is the line of the family of Smith, founders of the well-known British (and now international) book sellers and stationery company, W. H. Smith. See also this link for Smith/Dyke connections. Setting the scene ... In York, Thomas de Roseton and William Smyth of Fossegate were Wardens of Foss Bridge for . This is more than one hundred years before the time of "Smithdike" - but the "de Roseton" name of William Smyth's fellow warden is significant - being, possibly, "Rosedale".
About Pages: The Mathematical Institute, Oxford University Younger mathematicians whose work he promoted in this way included ChristopherWren, william Neile, and william brouncker. Throughout http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/about/oxford-figures/ch1-9.shtml
Extractions: Chapter 1: 800 years of mathematical traditions While the early days of medieval Oxford represent a golden age of mathematical research on an international level, it was only in the seventeenth century that research began to be developed as an explicit activity in which dons and the better students might be expected to join. A research dimension was implicit in Henry Savile's statutes for the Savilian Chairs, since the professors were expected to develop their subjects alongside their teaching duties, and the early Savilian professors set a high standard in this respect. Notwithstanding the strong state in which Wallis left Oxford mathematics, and the capable mathematicians who were his immediate successors, research activity seemed to run into the ground from 1720 or so, and little more is heard in this respect until well into the next century. But how about research and original work under this famous system of yours, I can fancy someone saying. You do not seem to have promoted it much. Perhaps not! It had not yet occurred to people that systematic training for it was possible.
