Elias Loomis

Elias Loomis ( born August 7, 1811 in Willington, Connecticut, † August 15 1889 in New Haven ( Connecticut ) ) was an American mathematician, meteorologist and astronomer.

In 1826 he enrolled as a student at Yale University and reached there in 1830 his degree. After intermediate stations at Mount Hope Academy and the Andover Theological Seminary, he began in 1833 at Yale as a tutor. In 1835 he was appointed professor at Western Reserve College in Hudson ( Ohio). From there he joined in 1844 as professor of mathematics at New York University. In 1860 he returned to Yale.

Loomis dealt astronomy, mathematics, physics and meteorology. He used as instruments to the latest technologies of the time. So he used to study the differences of longitude of New York and other cities, the electric telegraph. In 1842 he recorded the first time a weather map of a storm that hit in 1836 ravaged the eastern United States. He has published numerous books that have been sold in large editions and translated into many other languages. At his death in 1889 he left with $ 300,000, the highest legacy that Yale University had until then ever received.

Writings

  • A Collection of Algebraic Problems and Examples, for the Use of Colleges and High Schools in: Examinations and Class Instruction, Harper & Brothers, New York 1878.
  • Elements of Algebra, Designed for the Use of Beginners, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1851.
  • Elements of Analytical Geometry and of the Differential and Integral Calculus, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1851.
  • Elements of Arithmetic, Designed for Children, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1863.
  • Elements of Astronomy, Designed for Academies and High Schools, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1869.
  • Elements of Natural Philosophy, Designed for Academies and High Schools, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1858.
  • Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, With Their Applications to Mensuration, Surveying, and Navigation Trigonometry And Tables, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1848.
  • Introduction to Practical Astronomy, Harper & Brothers, New York 1855.
  • Recent Progress of Astronomy, Especially in the United States, Harper & Brothers, New York 1850; reprint ed IB Cohen, Arno Press, New York 1980.
  • Tables of Logarithms of Numbers ... ... Sines Tangents for Every Ten Seconds ... With Other Useful Tables Trigonometry And Tables, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1848.
  • Treatise on Algebra, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1846.
  • Treatise on Arithmetic, Theoretical and Practical, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1860.
  • Treatise on Astronomy, Designed for Colleges and Scientific Schools, Harper & Brothers, New York 1868.
  • Treatise on Meteorology Harper & Brothers, New York 1868.
  • Natural Philosophy, 1858.
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