| Authorised form of name | Eames; John (- 1744) |
| Dates | - 1744 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of death | 29 June 1744 |
| Activity | Education:
Merchant Taylors' School, London (admitted 1697)
Career:
Trained for the dissenting ministry but was deterred from this career by shyness; Assistant Tutor (1712), later Tutor (1734), Fund Academy, Tenter Alley, Moorfields, London; friend of Sir Isaac Newton (FRS 1672)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 25/06/1724 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1729-1730 |
| Relationships | Possibly son of John Eames of Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire; unmarried |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
'Gentleman's Magazine' 1744, p339
Notes:
Proposed by William Jones |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/78644679 |
| Code | NA5655 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| L&P/1/35 | Letter, 'On extraordinary warmth of air on 19 January 1741/2 (52% at 10.00 p.m.)' by Henry Miles to John Eames | 20 January 1741 |
| RBO/21/26 | 'Mr Eames's Account of a Dissertation containing Remarks upon the Observations made in France, in order to ascertain the Figure of the Earth, by Mr Celsius, intitled: De observationibus, pro figura Telluris determinanda...' | 1738 |
| RBO/21/32 | 'The continuation of the Remarks made by Mr Celsius on the Observations taken in France, in order to ascertain the true Figure of the Earth' abstracted by John Eames | 1738 |
| RBO/17/17 | 'A Remark on a particular Load stone' by John Eames | 1732 |
| NLB/17/241 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to S T H Saunders, Merchant Taylors' School, E.C. | 20 September 1898 |
| LBO/19/195 | Copy letter from Isaac Greenwood, Cambridge in New England, to John Eames | 28 April 1732 |
| CLP/22ii/55 | Paper, Account of James Jurin's book 'Dissertationes physico-mathematicae... [Physical-mathematical dissertations]' by John Eames | [1732] |
| CLP/22ii/54 | Paper, Account of a book entitled 'Catalogue des Ourayes de Monsieur Fourmont l'Aine' by John Eames | [1731] |
| CLP/2/19 | Paper, regarding telescopes invented before 1609 by [John] Eames | [1726] |
| CLP/22ii/62 | Paper, Account of Monsieur [Jean Jacques d'Ortous] de Mairan's paper 'Traite physique et historique de l' Aurore Boreale or philosophical and historical treatise on the Aurora Boreale [Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights]' [by John Eames] | c.1733 |
| EL/D2/52 | Account of the effects of a thunder and lightning storm in Carmarthenshire sent by Evan Davies to John Eames | 1729 |
| RBO/21/63 | 'A short Account of Mr Hersseboom's Essay upon the Number of People in Holland and West Friezland ...' by John Eames | 1739 |
| RBO/17/22 | John Eames' account of a book entitled 'Dissertationes Physico-mathematicae etc' by James Jurin | 1732 |
| CLP/9ii/29 | Extract, 'From the Journal Books of the Royal Society concerning magnets having more poles than two' by John Eames with some observations by Dr [John] Desaguliers | [1737?] |
| L&P/1/55 | Letter, 'Parhelia seen in Kent 19 December 1741' from Henry Miles to John Eames | [1741] |
| CLP/10iii/45 | Letter, regarding multiplying grain from J [John] Eames to [John] Machin | 4 March 1729 |
| CLP/3ii/25 | Paper, 'Remarks upon a supposed demonstration, that the moving forces of the same body are not as the velocities, but as the squares of the velocities' by John Eames | 1726 |
| RBO/18/2 | 'Account of an uncommon Form of a Chicken' in a letter to John Eames from Evan Davies, Haverford West | 1732 |
| RBO/17/8 | 'Account of a Book intitled Catalogue des Ouvrages de Mr Fourmont l'Aine etc' by John Eames | 1731 |
| CLP/3ii/24 | Paper, 'A remark upon the new opinion relating to the forces of moving bodies in the case of the collision of non elastic bodies' by John Eames | 1727 |
| CLP/22ii/73 | Paper, Account of John Muller's 'Mathematical treatise containing a system of conic sections with doctrine of fluxions or fluents' by John Eames | [1736] |
| CLP/3ii/26 | Paper, 'Remarks upon some experiments in hydraulics, which seem to prove that the forces of equal moving bodies are as the squares of their velocities' by John Eames | 1727 |
| RBO/13/12 | 'Remarks upon some experiments in Hydraulics, which seem to prove the forces of Equal moving Bodies are the Squares of their velocities' by John Eames | 1727 |
| RBO/14/78 | A brief account by J Eames of a book by Joseph Suzzi on mathematical topics | 1729 |
| RBO/15/42 | Effects of a thunderstorm in Carmarthenshire communicated to the Royal Society by John Eames | 1730 |
| RBO/17/32 | 'An Account of an Inscription in unknown Characters found on a Rock in Taunton River in New England' by Isaac Greenwood in his letter to John Eames | 1732 |
| RBO/19/58 | 'Account of the Acta literaria et Scientiarum Sueciae for the year 1731 by J Eames' | 1736 |
| RBO/20/19 | 'A brief Account by Mr Eames of a Work intitled: The Method of Fluxions and infinite Series, with its applicationt to the Geometry of Curve Lines, by the Inventor, Sir Isaac Newton' | 1736 |