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William Whiston (1667-1752)

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Type de notice: PersonneNom et dates: William Whiston (1667-1752)Lieu de naissance: Norton-juxta-Twycross (G. B.)Lieu de décès: Lyndon Hall (G. B.)Bibliothèque nationale de France: Notice n^o 11997914, https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11997914kISNI: Notice n^o 0000000108877913, https://isni.org/isni/0000000108877913Source: Catalogue général de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

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A écrit aussi en latin – Théologien et astronome – Professeur de mathématiques à Cambridge, d'où il fut exclu pour ses écrits théologiques – Traducteur de Flavius Josèphe.

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A genealogical history of the house of Yvery, in its different branches of Yvery, Luvel, Perceval and Gournay (1742)

A new method for discovering the longitude both at sea and land, humbly proposed to the consideration of the publick. By William Whiston, M. A.… (1714)

A new theory of the earth from its original to the consummation of all things, wherein the creation of the world in six days, the universal deluge… (1696)

A New theory of the earth from its original to the consummation of all things, wherein the creation of the world in six days, the universal deluge… (1737)

A new, theory of the earth, from its original, to the consumation of all things. Wherein the creation of the world in six days, the universal deluge… (1755)

A scheme of the solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets belonging therets described from Dr. Halley's accurate table of comets ... (1720-1725)

A Short view of the chronology of the Old Testament and of the harmony of the four Evangelists, by William Whiston,... (1702)

A Vindication of the "New theory of the earth" from the exceptions of Mr. Keill and others, with an historical preface of the occasions of… (1698)

A. Collection of authentick records belonging to the Old and New Testament, translated into English by William Whiston,... (1727-1728)

An account of the daemoniacks and of the power of casting out daemons, both in the New Testament, and in the four first centuries, occasioned by a… (1737)

An exact trigonometrical survey of the British Channel (1757)

An exact trigonometrical survey of the British Channel... (1742)

Arithmetica universalis # sive De compositione et resolutione arithmetica liber. Editio secunda, in qua multa immutantur & emendantur, nonnulla…

Arithmetica universalis ; sive De compositione et resolutione arithmetica liber. Cui accessit Halleiana aequationum radices arithmetice inveniendi…

Arithmetica universalis, sive de Compositione et resolutione arithmetica liber, cui accessit Halleiana aequationum radices arithmetice inveniendi… (1707)

Astronomical lectures read in the publick schools at Cambridge, by William Whiston,... whereunto is added a collection of astronomical tables being… (1728)

Elementa Euclidea geometriae planae ac solidae et Selecta ex Archimede theoremata ; ejusdem Trigonometria plana... Quibus nunc primum accedunt… (1745)

Elementa geometriae planae ac solidae, et Selecta ex Archimede theoremata. Accedunt corollaria... illustrandis Elementis accomodata et varias… (1710)

Historiae armenicae libri III. Accedit... Epitome geographiae. Praemittitur praefatio quae de literatura ac versione sacra armenica agit, et… (1736)

Memoirs of the life and writings of Mr. William Whiston, containing memoirs of several of his friends also, written by himself. The 2nd edition... (1753)

Mr. Whiston's Letter to the Right Hon. the earl of Nottingham concerning the eternity of the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit. The 2nd edition… (1721)

Mr. Whiston's Primitive New Testament. Part I. containing the four Gospels, with the Acts of the Apostles. Part II. containing XIV. Epistles of… (1745)

Mr. Whiston's Sacred history of the Old and New Testament, from the creation of the world till the days of Constantine the Great, reduced into… (1745-1746)

Praelectione astronomicae Cantabrigiae in scholis publicis habitae a Gulielmo Whiston,... quibus accedunt tabulae plurimae astronomicae Flamstedianae… (1707)

Praelectiones astronomicae Cantabrigiae in scholis publicis habitae a Gulielmo Whiston,... quibus accedunt tabulae plurimae astronomicae… (1707)

Praelectiones astronomicae Cantabrigiae in scholis publicis habitae... (1707)

Primitive christianity reviv'd... Vol. I... (1711)

Reflexions on an anonymous pamphlet [, by Anthony Collins] entituled "A Discourse of free thinking". By William Whiston,... (1713)

Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematick philosophy more easily demonstrated, with Dr. Halley's Account of comets illustrated, being forty lectures… (1716)

The Elements of Euclid with select theorems out of Archimedes... To which are added practical corollaries shewing the use of many of the propositions… (1728)

The Genuine works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian, translated from the original Greek, according to Havercamp's accurate edition,… (1741)

The Genuine works of Flavius Josephus, translated by William Whiston,... (1807)

The Longitude discovered by the eclipses, occulations and conjunctions of Jupiter's planets with descriptions of those refracting and reflecting… (1738)

Willhelm Whiston,... Gründlicher Beweis dass die in der Offenbahrung befindliche Geschichte von der Schöpfung der Welt und die allda geschehene… (1755)