Sir Isaac Newton

Margaret Steuart and her sisters seem to have had an excellent eduction: evidence remains that Agnes at least studied mathematics with Professor Maclaurin , a friend of Isaac Newton .

SM ' s mother, born Elizabeth Homer , was the second wife of Thomas Strickland. Strickland's first wife, born Susanna Butt , was related to Sir Isaac Newton ; because of the connection the Strickland...

Her father, Thomas Strickland , owned some property while he was employed as a docks manager near Rotherhithe. He thought of himself as an intellectual, and took pride in the fact that some books...

Her father, Thomas Strickland , was a docks manager near Rotherhithe, which was then a distinct village, but became part of the London Docks complex. He owned property in East London. He had...

John Jebb was then moved to a parish in Cambridge. Once back there he lectured in theology at Cambridge University, and took pupils to tutor. He had published a commentary on Sir Isaac Newton in...

His friendship with Sir Isaac Newton (a neighbour at the Tower) was shared by his daughter. There may also, possibly, have been personal acquaintance behind her praise of the poems of William Congreve and Alexander Pope

The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison had famously rendered as The spacious...

DM sent her book to trusted readers before and after its publication. Her former instructor Samuel Alexander (who had published Space, Time and the Deity in 1920) advised against publication, telling her that the text...

Sir Isaac Newton admired ET 's earliest essays (that is, attempts at writing). Thomas Parnell praised her Apollo and Daphne in a poem which he contributed to Steele 's Poetical Miscellanies, 1714 (which actually...

She was now free to pursue her mathematical studies with increased intensity. She tackled plane and spherical trigonometry and conic sections, read Newton 's Principia, and began to explore higher mathematics and physical astronomy...

CH first used in her sweeping of the night sky for nebulae and comets a more powerful, Newtonian telescope.

The material in the volume was later revised as the third part of the Magdalen Manuscript. The publisher advertised the volume in December 1687, using JB 's name. This is the only instance of his...

This novel is largely autobiographical, and contains an unsympathetic portrait of the author's mother, radical feminist Anna Wheeler , in the character of Aunt Marley. The school that Rosina attended is also portrayed as a...

In this pastoral elegy the poet links the dead woman with the famous dead: writers, thinkers and artists, Newton , Milton , Thomson , Lely , and Handel .

She then recorded how she look[ed] back on my past life with shame and confusion, when I recollect the many advantages I have had, and the bad use I have made of them. But...