Author:Edmund Stone

Edmund Stone
(1700–1768)

Edmund Stone

Works

• The Description, Nature and General Use, of the Sector and Plain-scale (1721, 1728, 1746). Anonymous, but the preface is signed E.S. and it was later credited to Stone.
• A New Mathematical Dictionary (1726, 1743).
• A New Treatise of the Construction and Use of the Sector (1729) a posthumous work by Samuel Cunn revised by Stone for publication
• Some Reflections on the Uncertainty of Many Astronomical and Geographical Positions (1766)

As translator

• An Analytick Treatise of Conick Sections (1720). Translated from Guillaume-François-Antoine de L'Hôpital's Traité analytique des sections coniques (1707).
• Clavius's Commentary on the Sphericks of Theodosius Tripolitae: or, Spherical Elements (1721). Translated from Christopher Clavius's Theodosii Tripolitae Sphaericorum Libri III (1586), itself a translation of Theodosius of Bithynia's Sphaerics.
• The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments (1723, 1758). Translated from Nicolas Bion's Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique (1709, 1723)
• Mathesis Enucleata: or, The Elements of the Mathematicks. (1723). 2nd ed. of a translation of Johann Sturm's Mathesis Enucleata (2nd ed. 1695)
• An Essay on Perspective (1724). Translated from Willem 's Gravesande's Essai de perspective (1711).
• The Elements of Physical and Geometrical Astronomy (1728). 2nd English ed., translated from David Gregory's Astronomiæ Physicæ & Geometricæ Elementa (1702, 1726). The 1st English ed. (1715) was translated by Gregory.
• Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Briefly, yet Plainly Demonstrated (1728). Translated from Isaac Barrow's Euclidis Elementorum libri XV breviter demonstrati (1659), a Latin translation of Euclid's Elements.
• The Method of Fluxions, both Direct and Inverse (1730). The first part translated from l'Hospital's Analyse des infiniment petits (1696, 1715), and the second part on integral calculus written by Stone. Stone's part was translated into French by Rondet as Analise des infiniment petits, comprenant le calcul integral dans toute son étenduë (1735).
• Euclid's Elements, Vol. II. Containing the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, thirteenth, and fifteenth Books, with the Data (1731). Translated from David Gregory's Euclidis quæ supersunt omnia (1703), itself a translation of Euclid.
• Geometrical Lectures (1735), translated from Isaac Barrow's Lectiones Opticae et Geometricae (1674).
• The Theory of the Working of Ships, Applied to Practice (1743). Translation of Henri Pitot's Théorie de la manoeuvre des vaisseaux réduite en pratique (1731).
• Euclid's Elements of Geometry, The First Six, the Eleventh and Twelfth Books (1752, 1765). Translated from David Gregory's Euclidis quæ supersunt omnia (1703).

Works about Stone

• "Stone, Edmund," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.