Authority Cited: Stone
Author name and dates: Edmund Stone (d.1768)
BKG Bio-tweet: Learned to read at 18; made extraordinary progress; edited two editions of Euclid; authored mathematical, astronomical works
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: the first edition of the title below was 1726; the edition SJ used is unknown, but the expanded 2nd, 1743, edition seems the logical choice. There is only one quotation explicitly taken from Stone's Dictionary in the SJ Dict., but some of the hundreds of citations of "Dict." and unattributed definitions may be from Stone's Dictionary]
Author name and dates: Edmund Stone (d.1768)
BKG Bio-tweet: Learned to read at 18; made extraordinary progress; edited two editions of Euclid; authored mathematical, astronomical works
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: the first edition of the title below was 1726; the edition SJ used is unknown, but the expanded 2nd, 1743, edition seems the logical choice. There is only one quotation explicitly taken from Stone's Dictionary in the SJ Dict., but some of the hundreds of citations of "Dict." and unattributed definitions may be from Stone's Dictionary]
- A new mathematical dictionary: wherein is contain'd, not only the explanation of the bare terms, But likewise an History of the rise, progress, State, Properties, &c. of things, both in pure mathematics, and natural philosophy, So far as these last come under a Mathematical Consideration. The second edition, with large additions. By E. Stone, F.R.S. 1743, London : printed for W. Innys, T. Woodward, T. Longman, and M. Senex; angle (image 59 in the digital copy of this title consulted)
- SJ Dictionary definitions that may be taken from Stone's title above: abacus; acanthus; aliquant; aliquot; amphiscii; anacampticks; anaclaticks; [BKG Note: Stone's Dictionary examined up to angle, about 10% of Stone's Dictionary pages. An alternative SJ source for these entries may be Chambers' Cyclopaedia, not yet examined.]