| 词条 | William Galbraith (mathematician) |
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Rev William Galbraith (1786 – 27 October 1850) was a Scottish mathematician. He taught mathematics and nautical astronomy in Edinburgh, and took an interest in surveying work, becoming an advocate of the extension of the work of triangulating Great Britain.[1] Early lifeHe was born at Greenlaw, Berwickshire.[2] Initially he was a schoolmaster. His pupil William Rutherford walked long distances to attend his school at Eccles. Subsequently he moved to Edinburgh, and graduated A.M. at the University of Edinburgh in 1821.[3]SurveyorDuring the 1830s Galbraith became interested in the surveying problems of Scotland. In 1831 he pointed out that Arthur's Seat had a strongly magnetic peak.[4] In 1837 he pointed out the impact of anomalies in measurement, work that received recognition;[5] it was topical because of the 1836 geological map of Scotland by John MacCulloch, with which critics had found fault on topographical as well as geological grounds.[6] A paper on the locations of places on the River Clyde was recognised in 1837 by a gold medal, from the Society for the Encouragement of the Useful Arts for Scotland.[7] Galbraith followed with detailed Remarks on the Geographical Position of some Points on the West Coast of Scotland (1838).[8] Having made some accurate surveys of his own, he lobbied for further attention from the national survey.[1] Later lifeAbout 1832 Galbraith was licensed a minister by the presbytery of Dunse. He married Eleanor Gale in 1833.[3] Galbraith was buried with his wife in the north-east section of the Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh.[9] WorksGalbraith's major works combined textbook material with mathematical tables:
He edited John Ainslie's 1812 treatise on land surveying (1849),[13] and with William Rutherford revised John Bonnycastle's Algebra.[14] Notes1. ^1 2. ^http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1851MNRAS..11...86. 3. ^1 {{cite book|author=Royal Astronomical Society|title=Memoirs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gC80AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA194|accessdate=6 November 2012|year=1851|publisher=Society|pages=194–}} 4. ^http://www20.us.archive.org/stream/topographicalsta01edinuoft#page/n145/mode/2up 5. ^{{de icon}} http://www26.us.archive.org/stream/almanachderkais03wiengoog#page/n654/mode/2up 6. ^{{ODNBweb|id=17412|title=MacCulloch, John|first=David A.|last=Cumming}} 7. ^{{cite book|title=The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3JQAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA219|accessdate=6 November 2012|year=1837|publisher=Constable|pages=1–}} 8. ^{{cite book|title=The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1sEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA300|accessdate=4 May 2012|year=1838|publisher=A. and C. Black|pages=300–}} 9. ^https://archive.org/stream/monumentsmonumen01rogeiala#page/152/mode/2up 10. ^{{cite book|author=William Galbraith|title=Mathematical and Astronomical Tables|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-MzmqlIfUsC|accessdate=4 May 2012|year=1827}} 11. ^{{cite book|author1=Robert Jameson|author2=Sir William Jardine|author3=Henry Darwin Rogers|title=The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: exhibiting a view of the progressive discoveries and improvements in the sciences and the arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0AwXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA404|accessdate=4 May 2012|year=1827|publisher=A. and C. Black|pages=404–}} 12. ^https://archive.org/stream/trigonometrical00galbgoog#page/n6/mode/2up 13. ^https://archive.org/details/atreatiseonland00ainsgoog 14. ^{{cite DNB|wstitle=Rutherford, William}} External links
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