Winthrop, John, 1714-1779
Winthrop, John
John Winthrop mathematician, physicist and astronomer and acting president of Harvard University in 1769 and 1773
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Winthrop, John, ‡d 1714-1779
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Winthrop, John, ‡d 1714-1779
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Works
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The case of the provinces of Massachusetts-Bay and New-York, respecting the boundary line between the two provinces | |
Essai sur les cometes. Où l'on tache d'expliquer les phénomenes qu'offrent leurs queues, & où l'on fait voir qu'elles sont probablement destinées à rendre les cometes des mondes habitables. Avec des observations & des réflexions sur le soleil & sur les planetes du premier ordre. Par André Oliver. Traduit de l'anglois.. | |
An essay on comets, : in two parts. Part I. Containing an attempt to explain the phaenomena of the tails of comets, and to account for their perpetual opposition to the sun, upon the philosophical principles. Part II. Pointing out some important ends for which these tails were probably designed: wherein it is shewn, that, in consequence of these curious appendages, comets may be inhabited worlds, and even comfortable habituations; notwithstanding the vast excentricities of their orbits. The whole interspersed with observations and reflections on the sun and primary planets. By Andrew Oliver, Jun. Esq. [Four lines from Pope] | |
A lecture on earthquakes : read in the chapel of Harvard-College in Cambridge, N.E. November 26th 1755. On occasion of the great earthquake which shook New-England the week before. By John Winthrop, Esq; Hollisian Professor of the Mathematics and Philosophy at Cambridge. Published by the general desire of that society. [Five lines from Derham]. | |
A letter to the publishers of the Boston gazette, &c. containing an answer to the Rev. Mr. Prince's letter inserted in said gazette, on the 26th of January 1756 | |
Relation of a voyage from Boston to Newfoundland, for the observation of the transit of Venus, June 6, 1761. | |
The scientific work of John Winthrop | |
Two lectures on comets : likewise, a supplement, relative to the present comet of 1811 | |
Two lectures on the parallax and distance of the sun, as deducible from the transit of Venus. Read in Holdenchapel at Harvard-college in Cambridge, New England, in March 1769. |