Carl Benjamin Boyer, was an American historian of sciences, and especially mathematics, novelist David Foster Wallace called him the "Gibbon of math history", who was the English historian, writer and Member of Parliament?
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Carl Benjamin Boyer Carl Benjamin Boyer (November 3, 1906 – April 26, 1976) was an American historian of sciences, and especially mathematics. Novelist David Foster Wallace called him the "Gibbon of math history". It has been written that he was one of few historians of mathematics of his time to "keep open links with contemporary history of science."
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Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon FRS ( ; 8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion.
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Michael Geddes Michael Geddes LL.D. (1650?–1713) was a Scottish clergyman of the Church of England and historian.
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Abel Stevens Abel Stevens (1815–1897) was an American clergyman, editor, and author known for his books on Methodist religious history. He wrote "History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America", an early history of the church that is frequently referenced in historical works, and "A Compendious History of American Methodism".
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George Soane George Soane (1790–1860) was an English writer and dramatist.
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Richard Price Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a Welsh moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and mathematician. He was also a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He was well-connected and fostered communication between a large number of people, including several of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Charles Selwyn Charles Selwyn (1689 - 9 June 1749) of West Sheen, Surrey, was an English Member of Parliament (MP).
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Arthur Ashley Sykes Arthur Ashley Sykes (1684–1756) was an Anglican religious writer, known as an inveterate controversialist. Sykes was a latitudinarian of the school of Benjamin Hoadly, and a friend and student of Isaac Newton.
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John Selden John Selden (16 December 1584 – 30 November 1654) was an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath showing true intellectual depth and breadth; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land."
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Trench Chiswell Richard Muilman Trench Chiswell (1735? – 1797) was an antiquary and English Member of Parliament.
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Edwin Brooks Edwin Brooks (born 1 December 1929) is a British-born, Australia-resident academic who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) in England and a local politician both in England and in Australia.
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Robert Wallace (Edinburgh MP) Robert Wallace (24 June 1831 – 6 June 1899) was a Scottish writer who had a remarkably varied career as a classics teacher, minister, university professor, newspaper editor, barrister and finally a member of parliament. He was born on 24 June 1831 at Kincaple near St. Andrews, Fife, and was the second son of Jasper Wallace, a gardener, and Elizabeth Archibald. He was educated at the Geddes Institution, Culross, Fife, and at the University of St. Andrews where he graduated M.A. in 1853. He was awarded the degree of D.D. by Glasgow University in 1869. He married Margaret Robertson (died 1898) on 10 March 1858 and they had six sons and one daughter. While he was minister at Old Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh, he was involved in attempts to reform and modernise the Church of Scotland. As a result, his fitness to be a minister was questioned and presumably this controversy influenced his decision to leave the clerical profession. He died in London on 6 June 1899.
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Robert Ashton (historian) Professor Robert 'Bob' Ashton, FRHistS (21 July 19249 February 2013) was a British historian specialising in early modern England. A leading authority on the House of Stuart, he was Professor of English history at the University of East Anglia. In addition, at various points in his academic career, he lectured at the University of Nottingham, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Oxford.
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Isaac Newton in popular culture Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, natural philosopher, theologian, alchemist and one of the most influential scientists in human history. His "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" is considered to be one of the most influential book in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics by describing universal gravitation and the three laws of motion. In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of the differential and integral calculus.
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William Lambarde William Lambarde (18 October 1536 – 19 August 1601) was an English antiquarian, writer on legal subjects, and politician. He is particularly remembered as the author of "A Perambulation of Kent" (1576), the first English county history; "Eirenarcha" (1581), a widely read manual on the office and role of justice of the peace; and "Archeion" (completed c.1591, though not published until 1635), a discourse that sought to trace the Anglo-Saxon roots of English common law, prerogative and government.
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George Smith Gibbes Sir George Smith Gibbes M.D. (1771–1851) was an English physician and writer.
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Thorold Rogers James Edwin Thorold Rogers (23 March 1823 – 14 October 1890), known as Thorold Rogers, was an English economist, historian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1886. He deployed historical and statistical methods to analyse some of the key economic and social questions in Victorian England. As an advocate of free trade and social justice he distinguished himself from some others within the English Historical School.
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Robert Hutchinson (historian) Robert Hutchinson, OBE FSA, is a British historian from Arundel.
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Thomas Prince Thomas Prince (May 15, 1687 – August 22, 1758) was an American clergyman, scholar and historian noted for his historical text "A Chronological History of New England, in the Form of Annals". Called 'an American pioneer in scientific historical writing', Prince influenced historians such as Jeremy Belknap and Thomas Hutchinson, and his "Annals" was still being used as a reference text as late as 1791.
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Ernest Campbell Mossner Ernest Campbell Mossner (October 22, 1907 – August 5, 1986) professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and biographer of the Scottish philosopher, essayist and historian, David Hume (1711–1776). He was a specialist also on Hume's friend and contemporary, Adam Smith.
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Gibbon (surname) Gibbon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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George Hardinge George Hardinge (1743–1816) was an English judge, writer and Member of Parliament.