Authority Cited: Wallis
Author name and dates: John Wallis (1616-1703)
BKG Bio-tweet: Mathematician; cryptographer; developer of calculus; mental calc.; also pub. grammar; twister rhyme trans. from French
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: Three Wallis cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, two Wallis cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two Wallis cites were added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below.]
Author name and dates: John Wallis (1616-1703)
BKG Bio-tweet: Mathematician; cryptographer; developer of calculus; mental calc.; also pub. grammar; twister rhyme trans. from French
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: Three Wallis cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, two Wallis cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two Wallis cites were added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below.]
- Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae, Cui præfigitur, de loquela sive sonorum formatione, tractatus grammatico-physicus (1653) Oxoniæ : Excudebat Leon. Lichfield Acad. typographus. Veneunt apud Tho. Robinson (4th ed., 1674); word list etymology citations include a; hobgoblin; least; woman
- Wallis (no work cited); word list entry citations include mechanicks (definition, perhaps a reference by Harris to Mechanica, sive, De motu tractatus geometricus (1670–71)); twister (quote); vegete (quote); SJ adds the headword Lecture, v.n. in the 1773 Dict. and gives the example "Wallis lectured on geometry."