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41. Michael Scot (1175 - 1235) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Scot/

    20 Aug 2023: inferno in Dante Alighieri's epic poem, The Divine Comedy only to be "rescued" much later on in Sir Walter Scott's poem Lay of the Last Minstrel.

42. Irish Math. Soc. Bulletin Number 87, Summer 2021, 51–85ISSN ... PDF (4287k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/perigal_stewart.pdf

    14 Jun 2021: Further prose and poems of his defending the absence inrotation of the moon can be found in [72, p. ... 9], [27], [151]. The Astronomical Register was only in its second year of publication when Cyclops’poem appeared.

43. Longitude2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Longitude2/

    7 Mar 2023: A poem written in 1661 described the work going on at Gresham College (see [6]):-.

44. Agner Erlang (1878 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Erlang/

    28 Apr 2024: Astronomy was his favourite subject, encouraged by his maternal grandfather who also loved it, but Agner combined that interest with another passion by writing poems about astronomical objects.

45. H W Turnbull F.R.S. - EMS obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Turnbull_EMS_obituary/

    7 Mar 2023: Some lines extracted from the poem by Robert Fergusson on the death of Turnbull's predecessor, David Gregory, are remarkably apposite:.

46. A C Aitken the poet - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Aitken_poet/

    7 Mar 2023: The road to dusty death. The second poem by Aitken which we give concerns Jason in the ship the Argo, who went to fetch the Golden Fleece. ... Whirlpool and reef, and the Symplegades. The third of the poems by Aitken which we give has special meaning for

47. William Rowan Hamilton English version PDF (681k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/Hamilton.pdf

    5 May 2020: poetry himself. He showed his poems to a friend, the poet WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, who had. ... difficulty in convincing HAMILTON that the poems were less successful than his mathematical and.

48. John Evelyn (1904 - 1976) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Evelyn/

    7 Mar 2023: As to poetry he published Poems (1937), Aena, and other poems (1938), The Wanderer. ... Poems (1950), Pandora. Poems (1954), A book of poems (1956). He also wrote Fortuna, and new lyrics (1936), The comedy of Faust (a verse play) (1959), The tragedy of

49. Measurement - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Measurement/

    7 Mar 2023: George Airy and John Herschel argued strongly against it, as did William Rankine who composed the poem The Three-Foot Rule :-. Some talk of millimetres, and some of kilograms,. And some

50. Muirhead Carpenter - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Muirhead_Carpenter/

    7 Mar 2023: by the death of George Hukin, whose sweet nature inspired more than one of the poems in Towards Democracy. ... One of the later poems in Towards Democracy is recognisable as a poetic version of an episode of James M Brown's life.