Description
[Contributions to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh & other journals]. 4to, Some geometrical porisms, [c.1796], 4 folding plates; A new method of expressing the coefficients of the development of the Algebraic formula, [c.1802]; New series for the quadrature of the conic sections, and the computation of logarithms. [c.1808], 2 autographed ms. of corrections bound in, and corrections made to text, folding plate; Investigation of formulae, for the finding the logarithms of trigonometrical quantities. Edinburgh, 1823, 2 parts, 5pp. autographed trigonometrical calculations bound in; On the burial place of John Napier of Merchiston, the inventor of Logarithms. 1831; A General theorem relating to regular polygons. [c.1824]; Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 3, no. 17, 2pp.; most publications inscribed at head by William Wallace, with autographed ms. index at beginning, half calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt
Footnote
Note: William Wallace was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh in 1819, a post he held until 1838.