Alex R Hall

Biographic Data

ID4877336
NAMEAlex R Hall
GIVEN NAMESAlex R
FAMILY NAMEHall
SIGNATUREHALL A R
AFFILIATIONSChrist University
ORCID0000-0002-3654-1373
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1948
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
H-INDEX2

  • Cambridge

    Open AccessAlex R HallARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…2001

    Before the death of Isaac Newton (in 1727), the colleges of Cambridge had begun to teach their undergraduates, besides moral philosophy, both natural and mathematical science. Their studies were judged by a University examination soon known as the ‘Tripos’, in which the students were listed in order of merit. By mid–century, knowledge of geometry, of Opticks, and of at least the earlier sections of the Principia, was required to gain a high place…

  • Isaac Newton and the aerial nitre

    Open AccessAlex R HallARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1998

    On 6 January 1713 Isaac Newton wrote to Roger Cotes, his assistant in preparing the second edition of his Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica , then in the press at Cambridge: ‘I shall send you in a few days a Scholium of about a quarter of a sheet to be added to the end of the book ...’ However, it was only on 2 March that Cotes actually received the copy for the ‘General Scholium’ from Newton, whose drafting processes now proceeded slo…

  • Newtonianism after 300 years

    Open AccessAlex R Hall, Reginald Victor Jones et al.ARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1988

    Very nearly 41 years ago the Royal Society organized very grand tercentenary celebrations of Newton’s birth, celebrations postponed by the war from their due date. There was a large and distinguished international gathering, all of whom went to Cambridge and a few to Grantham and Woolsthorpe. I suppose few of us here will be able to compare the character of the quatercentenary functions! To the best of my knowledge, the various events of the pres…

  • Technology in the Middle Ages

    Lynn White, Charles Singer et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1960

  • Isaac Newton's Papers and Letters on Natural Philosophy and Related Documents . I. Bernard Cohen , Robert E. Schofield , Isaac Newton

    Alex R HallARTICLEIsis1959

  • Franklin and Newton. An Inquiry into Speculative Newtonian Experimental Science and Franklin's Work in Electricity as an Example Thereof . I. Bernard Cohen

    Alex R HallARTICLEIsis1957

  • A History of Technology. I. From Early Times to Fall of Ancient Empires

    A J H Goodwin, Charles Singer et al.ARTICLEThe South African Archaeological…1956

  • Ballistics in the Seventeenth Century

    Brooke Hindle, Alex R HallARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1953

  • Robert Hooke and Horology

    Open AccessAlex R HallARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1951

    Robert Hooke (1635-1703), Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society and subsequently its Secretary, is generally credited with two important contributions to the art of the clock-maker among the many other productions of his versatile and practical genius: the invention of the anchor escapement and the spring' controlled balance-wheel. The great step forward in time-keeping, first suggested by Galileo, of applying the isochronous properties of …

  • Two Unpublished Lectures of Robert Hooke

    Alex R HallARTICLEIsis1951Cited by: 3

  • Sir Isaac Newton's Note-Book, 1661–65

    Open AccessAlex R HallARTICLECambridge Historical Journal1948Cited by: 8

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