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Edmund Stone
(1700–1768)
 

Scottish mathematician

Edmund Stone

Works

  • The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments, translated from the French of M. Bion, to which are added such instruments as are omitted by Bion, particularly those invented or improved by the English (1723)
  • A New Mathematical Dictionary (1725)
  • Elements of Geometry, Briefly, Yet Plainly Demonstrated (1728)
  • A New Treatise of the Construction and Use of the Sector by Samuel Cunn (1729)
  • The Method of Fluxions, both direct and inverse, the former being a translation from … de l'Hôpital's “Analyse des Infinement petits,” and the latter supply'd by the translator, E. Stone (1730)
  • The Whole Doctrine of Parallaxes (1763)
  • Some Reflections on the Uncertainty of many Astronomical and Geographical Positions (1766)

As translator

  • An Analytick Treatise of Conic Sections (1723), by Guillaume de l'Hôpital
  • Geometrical Lectures: Explaining the Generation, Nature and Properties of Curve Lines (1735), by Isaac Barrow
  • An Essay on Perspective (1724), by Willem Jacob Storm van Gravesande

Works about Stone


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