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III. Account of Matthew Stewart, D. D.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

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The Reverend Dr Matthew Stewart, late Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh, was the son of the Reverend Mr Dugald Stewart, Minister of Rothsay in the Isle of Bute, and was born at that place in the year 1717. After having finished his course at the grammar-school, being intended by his father for the Church, he was sent to the University of Glasgow, and was entered there as a student in 1734. His academical studies were prosecuted with diligence and success; and he was so happy as to be particularly distinguished by the friendship of Dr Hutcheson and Dr Simson. With the latter, indeed, he soon became very intimately connected; for though it is said, that his predilection for the Mathematics did not instantly appear on his application to the study of that science, yet the particular direction of his talents was probably observed by his master before it was perceived by himself.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , 1788 , pp. 57 - 76
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1788

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References

page 59 note * By the Reverend Dr Small.

page 60 note * Observations on Light and Colours, Phys. and Lit. Essays, vol. ii. art. 4.

page 66 note * About 118,541,428 English miles.

page 69 note * It is but justice to remark, that Mr Landen had probably never seen Mr Dawson's Propositions at the time his own were published, the whole impression of them, almost, having been burnt by a fire which consumed the warehouse where they were lodged.

page 69 note † Prin. Math. lib. 3. prop. 3.

page 70 note * Theoria Lunæ, sect. 51.

page 75 note * On the reverse of a miniature picture of Dr Simson, now in the possession of Mr Prof. Stewart, is an inscription, written by Dr Moor, late Professor of Greek at Glasgow, an intimate friend of Dr Simson, and a great admirer of the ancient Geometry:

Geometriam, sub tyranno barbaro saeva servitute diu squalentem, in libertatem et decus antiquum vindicavit unus.