| Evidence: | It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same causes still obstruct my progress You will perhaps be surprised that I am even now no farther advanced than the 'circle of curvature'. I have found his demonstrations circuitous but generally rigorous. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 4 Sep 1817 and 15 Feb 1818 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Kirkcaldy (probably) | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 4 Dec 1795 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer / Academic |
| Religion: | Lapsed Calvinist |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Wallace |
| Title: | 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Mathematics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Published in Edinburgh, publication date of this edition unknown |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4421 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | C R Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, South Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 120 | |
| Additional comments: | Taken from letter from Carlyle to Robert Mitchell, dated 16th February 1818, written at Kirkcaldy. Pages 118-122 in this edition. |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, South Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 120, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4421, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| See RED ref 2918 for earlier reference to this work in letter dated 25th September 1817. Dates of reading experience are estimate based on when he refers to first reading it, until date of this letter. He does not say when or where exactly he reads it. |
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