Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Leslie Sir John

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned asid...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir John Leslie	Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis, and Plane Trigonometry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerab...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?]	review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilites	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at leas...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir John Leslie	Elements of Geometry	Print: Book