Authority Cited: Keil [Keill]
Author name and dates: John Keill (1671-1721)
BKG Bio-tweet: Edinburgh, Oxford educated mathematician; disciple, defender of Isaac Newton calculus precedence vs. Leibniz
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three Keill cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, eight Keill cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Keill cites were identified as added to the 1773 Dict. A second edition of the title below was published in 1734; the edition that SJ used has not been determined.]
Author name and dates: John Keill (1671-1721)
BKG Bio-tweet: Edinburgh, Oxford educated mathematician; disciple, defender of Isaac Newton calculus precedence vs. Leibniz
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three Keill cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, eight Keill cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Keill cites were identified as added to the 1773 Dict. A second edition of the title below was published in 1734; the edition that SJ used has not been determined.]
- Keil Against Burnet: An examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the earth together with some remarks on Mr. Whiston's New theory of the earth, By JO. KEILL, A.M. Coll. Ball. Ox. 1698, Oxford: Printed at the Theater;
- detrusion (p.103); finger (p.7); incautious (p.26); lump (p.49); nethermost (p.3); organ (p.7); origination (p.19); pellucidity/pellucidness (p.177); romantick (p.[1]); spherical (p.47); spitefulness (p.27) [BKG Note: finger and organ share the same quote]
- Keill (no work cited);