Hutton
Hutton names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hutton CHARLES, an English mathematician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES, an English mathematician; born in Newcastle-upon- Tyne, England, Aug. 14, 1737. He was the son of a superintendent of mines, and in 1755-1773 was a school teacher at Jesmond and Newcastle. In 1773 he was appointed to the professorship of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in 1774 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was selected to perform the necessary calculations for determining the density of the earth, and his report was published in the "Philosophical Transactions" for 1778. He resigned the professorship in 1807. He wrote: "Tables of Products "Mathematical Tables" (1785); "Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary" (1795); "Course of Mathematics" (1798– 1801); "Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy" (1803); etc. Besides these, he contributed mathematical papers to the "Philosophical Transactions." He died Jan. 27, 1823.
Hutton RICHARD HOLT, an Engeditor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD HOLT, an Engeditor, critic lish , and author; born in 1826. He was editor of the London repute, and the author of "Studies in "Spectator, literary critic of great Parliament: a Series of Sketches of Leading Politicians" (1866); "Essays, Theological and Literary" (2 vols., 1871); "Sir Walter Scott" (1878) in "English Men of Letters" series; "Essays on Some Modern Guides of English Thought in Matters of Faith" (1887). He died in 1897.
Hutton LAURENCE, an American editor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LAURENCE, an American editor; born in New York, Aug. 8, 1843. Devoting his earlier years to mercantile pursuits, he at length became dramatic critic of the New York "Evening Mail"; literary editor of "Harper's Magazine" (1886-1898). He wrote "Plays and Players"; "Edwin Booth"; "Literary Landmarks"; etc. He made a remarkable collection of death masks of noted people, which he presented to Princeton presented University. He died June 10, 1904. Canadian
Hutton MAURICE, a educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MAURICE, a educator. He was born at Manchester, England, in 1856, and was educated at Oxford. He became lecturer on classics at Firth College, Sheffield, and in University College, Toronto, in 1880, professor of Greek in 1887, principal in 1901, and acting president in 1906-1907. From 1910 to 1919 he was vice-president of the Royal Society of Canada. His works include: "Hellenism"; and editions of Greek classics.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
These are four short lives of dead men, and Collier's 1921 sketches still stand as written. The one figure that has moved is Charles Hutton's: the Schiehallion survey calculations he reported to the Philosophical Transactions in 1778 gave the earth a mean density of about 4.5 times that of water, whereas the accepted modern value is roughly 5.51 — and Hutton is now also credited with inventing the contour line, which he drew to make sense of the mountain's shape. Laurence Hutton's death masks remain at Princeton, where they are still shown as a curiosity of Victorian collecting. Maurice Hutton, the only one of the four still living when Collier's went to press, went on to outlive the entry by some years.
Written for this edition, 2026.