21. Pepys' Diary: Wednesday 23 January 1660/61 1213) included Lord brouncker, william Petty, Sir Kenelm Digby and John Evelyn.Greatorex attended these early meetings, but does not appear to have been a http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1661/01/23/index.php

@import url(/style/default/global_non_ns4.css); The Diary of Samuel Pepys The diary Background info Recent annotations About this site ... Archive for January 1661 Search: Help Wednesday 23 January 1660/61 To the office all the morning. My wife the City , and there meeting with Greatorex , we went and drank a pot of ale . He told me that he was upon a design to go to Teneriffe to try experiments there. With him to Gresham Colledge (where I never was before), and saw the manner of the house, and found great company of persons of honour there; thence to , and for books, and to Stevens , the silversmith, to make clean some plate against to-morrow, and so home , by the way paying many little debts for wine Slater , our messenger, being here as my cook till very late. I in my chamber all the evening looking over my works and new Emanuel Thesaurus Patriarchae . So late to bed, having ate nothing to-day but a piece of bread and cheese at the ale- house with Greatorex, and some bread and butter at home. Annotations new Emilio Link Matters scientific new Jenny Doughty Link new Paul Miller Link new vincent Link from :[jan 1661 J Evelyn ]23. To Lond, at our Society, where was divers Exp: on the Terrella sent us by his Majestie.

22. William, Viscount Brouncker (c.1620 - 1684) william, Viscount brouncker, one of the founders of the Royal Society of London,born about 1620, and died on April 5, 1684, was among the most brilliant http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Brouncker/RouseBall/RB_Brouncker.htm

William, Viscount Brouncker (c.1620 - 1684) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. William, Viscount Brouncker , one of the founders of the Royal Society of London, born about 1620, and died on April 5, 1684, was among the most brilliant mathematicians of this time, and was in intimate relations with Wallis, Fermat, and other leading mathematicians. I mentioned above his curious reproduction of Brahmagupta's solution of a certain indeterminate equation. Brouncker proved that the area enclosed between the equilateral hyperbola xy = 1, the axis of x , and the ordinates x = 1 and x = 2, is equal either to or to He also worked out other similar expressions for different areas bounded by the hyperbola and straight lines. He wrote on the rectification of the parabola and of the cycloid. It is noticeable that he used infinite series to express quantities whose values he could not otherwise determine. In answer to a request of Wallis to attempt the quadrature of the circle he shewed that the ratio of the area of a circle to the area of the circumscribed square, that is, the ratio of to 4, is equal to the ratio of

23. Category:Presidents Of The Royal Society - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia T. Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke. W. william brouncker, 2nd Viscountbrouncker william Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse Christopher Wren http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Presidents_of_the_Royal_Society

Wikimedia needs your help in its 21-day fund drive. See our fundraising page Over US$130,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! Category:Presidents of the Royal Society From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Articles in category "Presidents of the Royal Society" There are 26 articles in this category. Presidents of the Royal Society A Michael Atiyah B Joseph Banks C Cyril Wyche E Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson F Martin Folkes H Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Humphry Davy J Joseph Williamson K William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin L Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister M Robert May James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton N Isaac Newton Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton P Samuel Pepys John Pringle S Edward Sabine Hans Sloane John Somers, 1st Baron Somers William Spottiswoode ... Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex T Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke W William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse Christopher Wren Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Presidents_of_the_Royal_Society

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27. CELL: Early Letters Of The Royal Society,Biographical Index william brouncker, 2nd viscount brouncker. 1620?1684. william brouncker s fatherwas a rpominent royalist, who had been a member of Charles I s privy http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/rs/pilot/ref/biographies.html

Biographical Index Mr Acton Member of Dublin Philosophical Society in 1685 EL.A.30 Mr Aland Of Waterford - correspondent of the Dublin Philosophical Society on subject of longitude in 1685. EL.A.28 EL.A.29 Mr Anderson Published in Philosophical Transactions on subject of gunnery in 1687. EL.A.39 St George Ashe Son of Thomas Ashe of county Meath, Ireland, St George Ashe was educated at Trinity College, Ireland and became a fellow there in 1679. In 1685 he became Donegal Lecturer and Professor of Mathematics at Trinity, and in the same year he took over as secretary to the Dublin Philosophical Society. He fled to England during the reign of James II. In 1689 he became chaplain to Lord Paget, William III's ambassador to Vienna and was also elected to membership of the Royal Society. In 1692 he returned to Trinity as Provost and three years later became Bishop of Cloyne. He was subsequently Bishop of Clogher (1697-1717) and shortly before his death became Bishop of Derry. EL.A.28

28. CELL: Early Letters Of The Royal Society,Royal Society EL/B1/1 Drafts of two letters by william brouncker, 0309-1662 william brounckerbecame President of the Royal Society following the granting of a Royal Charter http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/rs/pilot/descriptions/EL.B1.1.html

Royal Society EL/B1/1 Drafts of two letters by William Brouncker, 03-09-1662 William Brouncker became President of the Royal Society following the granting of a Royal Charter in the summer of 1662. Among his first duties were those of offering thanks to: the king for granting the charter Sir Robert Moray , his predecessor as president, for his part in securing it.

29. The Galileo Project Father Occupation Gentry, Government Official Sir william brouncker was aGentleman of JF Scott and Harold Hartley, william, Viscount brouncker, PRS http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/brounckr.html

Brouncker, William 1. Dates Born: Castle Lyons, Ireland, c.1620 Died: Westminster, 5 April 1684 Dateinfo: Birth Uncertain Lifespan: 2. Father Occupation: Gentry, Government Official Sir William Brouncker was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I and held a number of governmental appointments. His financial status is a bit unclear. It is reported that he spent all of his resources to buy an Irish peerage in 1645. However, this was during a time when he was probably cut off from the income of his Irish estate. His son lived well on the estate he inherited. I think that wealthy is the description before the Civil War impinged on him. 3. Nationality Birth: Irish Career: English Death: English 4. Education Schooling: Oxford, M.D. Oxford University, 1636-47; Doctor of Physick, 1647. 5. Religion Affiliation: Anglican 6. Scientific Disciplines Primary: Mathematics Subordinate: Music Brouncker was the first to introduce continued fractions and to give a series for the quadrature of a portion of the equilateral hyperbola. He translated Descartes's Musical Compendium, 1653, and prepared a new division of the diapason into 17 equal semitones.

30. MILDMAY Married william brouncker (son of Henry brouncker and Ursula Yate) 10 Jan 1569,Melksham, Erlestoke and Winterbourne, Wiltshire, England. Children http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/MILDMAY.htm

MILDMAY FAMILY Thomas MILDMAY Married: Margaret C ORNISH Children: Walter MILDMAY Walter MILDMAY Father: Thomas MILDMAY Mother: Margaret C ORNISH Married: Mary EVERWARD Children: Thomas MILDMAY Thomas MILDMAY Born: 1472 ABT 1486, Chelmsford, Essex, England Died: 1566 Notes: Auditor of Court of Augmentations for Henry VIII Father: Walter MILDMAY Mother: Mary EVERWARD Married: Agnes READE Children: Joan MILDMAY Thoma s ... of Crillingham Joan MILDMAY Born: ABT 1 Father: Thomas MILDMAY Mother: Agnes READE Married: Christopher PEYTON ( Sir (son of Francis Peyton and Elizabeth Brooke ) ABT 1518 Children: Margaret PEYTON Thomas PEYTON Thoma s ine MILDMAY Born: ABT 1512 Died: AFT 20 May 1579 Barnesley, Gloucestershire, England Father: Thomas MILDMAY Mother: Agnes READE Married 1: William THOMAS Married Anthony BOURCHIER ABT 1539 Barnesley, Gloucestershire, England Children: Children: William BOURCHIER Thomas BOURCHIER Son BOURCHIER Mary (Alice) BOURCHIER Thomas MILDMAY Born: Moulsham, Essex, England Died: BEF 29 Jan 1566/7 Notes: See his Biography Father: Thomas MILDMAY Mother: Agnes READE Married: Avis GONSON Children: Thomas MILDMAY Son MILDMAY Son MILDMAY Son MILDMAY Son MILDMAY Son MILDMAY Son MILDMAY Son MILDMAY Dau. MILDMAY

31. Anthony MILDMAY (Sir) marriage of his sister Martha to the influential william brouncker of Melksham . william and Henry brouncker, who on this occasion sat for boroughs. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/AnthonyMildmay.htm

Sir Anthony MILDMAY Born: ABT 8 Sep 1549 Apethorpe, Northa mtonshire, England Di ed: 11 Sep Father: Walter MILDMA Y (Sir) Mother: Mary WALSINGHAM Married: Grace SHARINGTON (dau. of Henry S harington of Leackok Children: Mary MILDMA Y (C. Westmoreland) Sir Anthony Mildmay by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1593 Watercolour on vellum The details in this biography come from the History of Parliament , a biographical dictionary of Members of the House of Commons. Born ABT 1549, first son of Sir Walter Mildmay of Apethorpe by Mary , dau. of William Walsingham of Footscray , Kent, sister of Francis Walsingham ; brother of Humphrey . Educ. Peterhouse, Camb. 1562. Married, 1567, Grace , 1st surviving dau. and coheir of Henry Sharington of Lacock . Suc. fa. 1589. Kntd. 1596. Auditor, north parts duchy of Lancaster 1589-94 (reversion to fa. 1568); j.p. Northants. from 1579, Wilts. from 1583; sheriff, Northants. 1580-1, 1592-3, dep. lt. from 1607; Ambassador to France 1596-7; commr. charitable uses 1603, for goods of gunpowder conspirators 1606; dep. steward Yaxley, Northants. Mildmay was born, as it appears from his widow's provision for a memorial sermon to him, on the Nativity of Our Lady (8 Sep), but in what year has not been ascertained. To judge from the date of his entry to Peterhouse, it may have been 1549. By the time he was ready for Cambridge his father had survived partial eclipse under

32. SK Knowledge Base - Oxford’s Cavalier Mausoleum (4) william Viscount brouncker. A courtier soldier who did very little in the way of “In memory of Sr william brouncker Knt. Lord Viscount brouncker of http://www.sealedknot.org/knowbase/docs/0079_OxfordCavMaus.htm

Oxford’s Cavalier Mausoleum Author: Andrew Polkey Orders of the day, Volume 34, Issue 1, March/April 2002 Oxford’s Cavalier Mausoleum (part 2) is available here On a recent visit to Oxford I paid my respects to the Lucy chapel in Christ Church Cathedral – the final resting-place and mausoleum of a number of prominent Royalists from the Civil War period. I had been here some years before on a cursory visit after a King’s Guard regimental banquet at nearby Pembroke College, and armed with a copy of Strangers in Oxford (1), had made a pilgrimage to places associated with the original regiment during its time as a component part of the Oxford Army. A brief foray to the Cathedral located the Lucy chapel and its Cavalier monuments, but I had insufficient time for a closer scrutiny and was too soon obliged to return home north of Trent. In late November 2001 I stood once again in the Lucy chapel, on this occasion with more time to spare and a determination to record the inscriptions. Armed with enough of a working knowledge of Latin to attend a Novus Ordo So it was that I acquired a copy of the transcript and was at last able to discover the identities of the Royalist dead commemorated in the chapel. Though many were buried here in Christ Church during the war, not all possessed memorials, and three of King Charles’s own family: George Stuart, Lord d’Aubigny, Lord John Stuart and Lord Bernard Stuart, have no discernible grave. Yet eight individuals did have memorials – most dating from the Restoration – and when Gilbert Scott restored the Cathedral c1870-6, these were gathered from various parts of the building and placed together in the Lucy chapel.

33. Royal Society 16621677, william Viscount brouncker. 1677-1680, Sir Joseph williamson, Kt.1680-1682, Sir Christopher Wren. 1682-1683, Sir John Hoskins, Bart http://www.geocities.com/roggemansmarcel/royalsociety.htm

AANHANGSEL G : De Voorzitters van de Royal Society William Viscount Brouncker Sir Joseph Williamson, Kt Sir Christopher Wren Sir John Hoskins, Bart Sir Cyril Wyche, Kt Samuel Pepys John, Earl of Carbery (Lord Vaughan) Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, K.G. Sir Robery Southwell, Kt Charles Montagu (afterwards Earl of Halifax, K.G.) John, Lord Somers Sir Isaac Newton, Kt Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Martin Folkes George, Earl of Macclesfield James, Earl of Morton (Lord Aberdour) James (afterwards Sir James) Burrow James West Sir John Pringle, Bart. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., P.C. William Hyde Wollaston Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. Davies Gilbert (formerly Giddy) H.R.H The Duke of Sussex Joshua Alwyne Compton, Marquess of Northampton William Parsons, Earl of Rosse John, Lord Wrottesley Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart. Sir Edward Sabine, K.C.B. Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., G.C.S.I. William Spottiswoode Thomas Henry Huxley, P.C. Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart. Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson), P.C. Lord Lister, P.C., O.M. Sir William Huggins, O.M., K.C.B.

34. 1653: Information From Answers.com In the year 1653 Communication Mathematician william brouncker (formally william,2nd Viscount brouncker) b. http://www.answers.com/topic/1653

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Arts Business Entertainment Games ... More... On this page: US Literature Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping In the year Communication Mathematician William Brouncker (formally William, 2nd Viscount Brouncker) [b. Castlelyons, Ireland, 1620, d. Westminster, England, April 5, 1684] publishes a much enlarged translation of Descartes' pamphlet on music as Renati Descartes musicae compendium in which Brouncker proposes dividing the scale into 17 equal intervals, choosing 17 because of a relation to the golden ratio. See also 1636 Communication 1701 Physics Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden [b. Tholen (Netherlands), 1595, d. London, April 1683], commissioned by England's Charles I, succeeds in draining and reclaiming 124,000 hectares (307,000 acres) in the Fenns region of England. American Literature Diaries, Journals, and Letters Michael Wigglesworth The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653-1657; the conscience of a Puritan . The poet and minister begins writing this diary during a long illness. Nonfiction John Eliot Tears of Repentance . This is the first of Eliot's many tracts reporting on the progress of Indian conversion to Christianity. Included also is a letter from Thomas Mayhew . It would be followed by A Late and Further Manifestation A Further Account (1660), and

35. 1657: Information From Answers.com william brouncker in an exchange of letters with Fermat and other mathematiciansworking on the problem finds a solution using continued fractions. http://www.answers.com/topic/1657

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Arts Business Entertainment Games ... More... On this page: US Literature Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping In the year Communication Leopoldo de Medici [b. Florence (Italy), 1617, d. 1675] founds the Accademia del Cimento in Florence. It is the first scientific research institute since the Museum at Alexandria, which was destroyed in 641 ce See also 1603 Communication 1731 Communication Mathematics Christiaan Huygens's De ratiociniis in ludo aleae ("on reasoning in games of chance") is the first published work on probability. It introduces the concept of mathematical expectation. See also 1654 Mathematics 1683 Mathematics William Neil [b. England, December 7, 1637, d. August 24, 1670] finds a way to determine the length of the semicubical parabola, which is the graph of ay x Fermat proposes the problem of finding the solution to nx y , an equation that, unknown to Fermat, had been studied at least as early as Brahmagupta in 628 ce and Bhaskara II in 1150. William Brouncker in an exchange of letters with Fermat and other mathematicians working on the problem finds a solution using continued fractions. The famous equation later comes to be known as Pell's equation, although John Pell [b. Southwick, England, March 1, 1611, d. London, December 12, 1685] had little or nothing to do with it. Samuel Stockhausen, a physician in the mining town of Goslar in Germany, publishes about this time his explanation of a disease that is striking local mine and smelter workers. In the first study of an occupational disease, he identifies lead as the cause.

36. Famous Mathematicians. Albert c.1590c.1633 Desargues, Girard 1591-1661 Descartes, Rene 1596-1650Fermat, Pierre de 1601-1665 brouncker, Lord william c.1620-1684 Pascal, http://home.egge.net/~savory/maths6.htm

Pre-Einstein famous mathematicians. Stu Savory, 2004. If you ask people these days to name a famous mathematician, surveys show the most popular answer to be Albert Einstein . Einstein himself used to like to quote Sir Isaac Newton's famous humble line "If I have seen further than other men, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." So I asked myself, who were these giants, i.e. famous pre-Einstein mathematicians. Here's the list of the top 100 or so, sorted chronologically. How many do you know? That means you can state what they were famous for, off the cuff, no googling! If you score below 30 you need to do some revision :-) Ahmes c. 1650 B C Pythagoras c.540 BC Hippocrates c.440 BC (that's Hippocrates of Chios, NOT the physician who lived around the same time). Plato c.430-c.349 BC Hippias c.425 BC Theaetetus c.417-369 BC Archytas c.400 B C Xenocrates 396-314 BC Theodorus c.390 BC Aristotle 384-322 BC Menaechmus c.350 BC Euclid c.300 BC Archimedes c.287-212 BC Nicomedes c.240 BC Eratosthenes Gauss , Karl Friedrich 1777-1855 Brianchon, Charles c.1783-1864 Binet, Jacques-Philippe-Marie 1786-1856 Möbius, August Ferdinand 1790-1868 Babbage, Charles 1792-1871 Laine, Gabriel 1795-1870 Steiner, Jakob 1796-1863 de Morgan, Augustus 1806-1871 Liouville, Joseph 1809-1882 Shanks, William 1812-1882 Catalan, Eugene Charles 1814-1894 Hermite, Charles 1822-1901 Riemann, Bemard 1826-1866 Venn, John 1834-1923 Lucas, Edouard 1842-1891 Cantor, George 1845-1918 Lindemann, Ferdinand 1852-1939 Hilbert, David 1862-1943 Lehmer, D. N. 1867-1938 Hardy, G. H. 1877-1947 Ramanujan, Srinivasa 1887-1920

37. Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - Pafg1848 - Generated By Personal Anc Barbara brouncker Parents married Edgar DISNEY on 23 Oct 1834. williamJESSE Parents married Sophia DISNEY. Sophia DISNEY Parents married william http://www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk/maximilia/pafg1848.htm

Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 John DISNEY Rev DD [ Parents died 26 Dec 1816. He married Jane BLACKBURNE. Jane BLACKBURNE [ Parents married John DISNEY Rev DD. They had the following children: M i John DISNEY FRS FSA Edward TURNER married Mary DISNEY. Mary DISNEY [ Parents married Edward TURNER. William FFYTCHE He had the following children: F i Elizabeth FFYTCHE William HILLARY Sir Bart married Frances Elizabeth DISNEY on 21 Feb 1800. Frances Elizabeth DISNEY [ Parents married William HILLARY Sir Bart on 21 Feb 1800. John DISNEY FRS FSA [ Parents married Sophia DISNEY on 22 Sep 1802 in Flintham Hall Notts. [Notes] Sophia DISNEY [ Parents married John DISNEY FRS FSA on 22 Sep 1802 in Flintham Hall Notts. They had the following children: M i Edgar DISNEY was born 22 Dec 1810. F ii Sophia DISNEY Francis BLACKBURNE Rev MA He had the following children: F i Jane BLACKBURNE Edgar DISNEY [ Parents was born 22 Dec 1810. He married Barbara BROUNCKER on 23 Oct 1834. Barbara BROUNCKER [ Parents married Edgar DISNEY on 23 Oct 1834. William JESSE [ Parents married Sophia DISNEY.

38. Melksham History Melksham was passed down two more generations to another william brouncker beforeit was conveyed to Sir John Danvers, who married into the family, in 1634. http://www.rollasmoke.com/melksham.htm

A Short History Of Melksham The name Melksham is derived from Melchoir's enclosure. This norseman founded a settlement on the bank of the river Avon probably where there was shallow water to allow crossing, or at a narrow point where fallen trees could span the water. An area of water meadow would be required to feed the animals, and the enclosure would also be close to a ready supply of wood to be used for fuel and making shelters. The Melksham Forest extended along the river to Cippa's enclosure.(Chippenham) The Domesday Book of 1086 assessed the Lordship of Melksham, which belonged to William the Conqueror, as 84 hides, and the Melksham Forest covered 8,400 acres. This vast area of forest became the favourite hunting ground of the Tudor kings. In 1158 the estate of Melksham was handed to Humphrey de Bohun III, but, in 1184, King Henry II reclaimed it as a crown possession. It stayed in royal hands until King Henry III gave the lordship to Alice, Countess of Devon, for life in 1257. On her death the title reverted to Amesbury Priory. In 1286 a Royal Charter granted the Prioress rights of tenure and a second Royal Charter gave her free warren.

39. Read This: A Discourse Concerning Algebra As for william brouncker, Wallis did acknowledge his contributions and also gavea fair assessment of the latter s work. As Stedall notes, however, http://www.maa.org/reviews/discoursealgebra.html

Search MAA Online MAA Home Read This! The MAA Online book review column A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685 by Jacqueline Stedall Reviewed by Eisso Atzema History has not been kind to John Wallis' early attempt at writing a history of algebra up to his time. Starting with Montucla, most historians of mathematics have been rather dismissive about the value of the various editions of his Treatise of Algebra . Truth be told, parts of the work are just plain bad writing and at times he is so focussed on the cause of the English that he loses all objectivity. Yet much of the criticism regarding the Treatise dates from long after Wallis' death and, until recently, few have sought to appreciate the book in the context of Wallis' work and the state of mathematics during his lifetime. It is exactly this that Stedall sets out to do in the book under review here and the results of her findings make for a riveting read. As Stedall makes abundantly clear, it is hard to see how to appreciate or even understand Wallis' historical work without an intimate knowledge of the state of algebra and the networks among those dedicated to its furtherance in England during the first three quarts of the seventeenth century. To understand Wallis' work, one has to consider the pitiful state of the study of algebra in early seventeenth-century England and the dearth of homegrown textbooks. One has to discuss how William Oughtred's poorly written Clavis (1630) could become the requisite introduction to algebra for a whole generation of English mathematicians. Stedall takes up all of these strands and weaves them together with a firm hand to form the backdrop to Wallis'

40. The Science Bookstore - Chronology brouncker, william Died 4/5/1684, 1684 AD. 1684 AD, Newton, I. Isaac Newtonproves that planets moving under an inversesquare force law will obey Kepler s http://www.thesciencebookstore.com/chron.asp?pg=6

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