Alexander John Ellis
1814 - 1890
- Born
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14 June 1814
Hoxton, Middlesex, England
- Died
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28 October 1890
21 Auriol Road, West Kensington, London
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 02/06/1864
- Relationships
- Changed his name from Sharpe to Ellis by Royal Licence, after a bequest from a relative (1825)
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Unpublished paper, 'On the laws of operation, and the systematisation of mathematics' Alexander J [John] Ellis
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: AP/42/9 -
Unpublished paper, 'On scalar and clinant algebraical coordinate geometry, introducing a new and more general theory of analytical geometry, including the received as a particular care, and explaining "imaginary points, intersections, and lines"' by Alexander J [John] Ellis
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: AP/43/3 -
Unpublished paper, 'On clinant geometry, as a means of expressing the general relations of points on a plane, realising imaginaries, and extending the theories of anharmonic ratios' by Alexander J [John] Ellis
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: AP/45/2 -
Unpublished paper, 'Bessel's hypsometric tables, as corrected by [Emile] Plantamour, reduced to English measures, and recalculated' by Alexander J [John] Ellis
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: AP/45/3 -
Unpublished paper, 'Introductory memoir on the plane stigmatics' by Alexander J [John] Ellis
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: AP/48/1 -
Unpublished paper, 'Second memoir on plane stigmatics' by Alexander J [John] Ellis
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: AP/48/2
Referee of
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Letter from Alexander John Ellis, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: RR/7/37 -
Referee's report by Alexander John Ellis, on a paper 'On the mechanical performance of logical inference' by William Stanley Jevons
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: RR/7/38 -
Referee's report by Alexander John Ellis, on a paper 'The theory of the division of the octave, and the practic treatment of the musical systems thus obtained. Revised version of a paper entitled 'On just intonation in music with a description of a new instrument for the easy control systems of tuning other than the equal temperament of 1 divisions in the octave' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: RR/7/363 -
Letter from Alexander John Ellis, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the Hindoo [Hindu] division of the octave, with some additions to the theory of the higher orders' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: RR/8/2 -
Referee's report by Alexander John Ellis, on a paper 'On the Hindoo [Hindu] division of the octave, with some additions to the theory of the higher orders' by Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet
Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: RR/8/3
Recipient of
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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Alexander John Ellis, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/22/154
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
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