Person Stirling; James (1692 - 1770) Stirling James Sterling 1692 - 1770 Scottish Male Garden, Stirlingshire, Scotland 1692 Edinburgh 05 December 1770

Teacher Mathematics Mining Education: Glasgow; Balliol College, Oxford (matriculated 1711; expelled 1715 for corresponding with notorious Jacobites) Career: Travelled to Venice, home of his patron, Niccolo Troni (FRS 1715), where he made the acquaintance of Nicholas Bernoulli (FRS 1714); discovered the secret of Venetian glass-making and, in fear of his life, returned to England with the assistance of Sir Isaac Newton (FRS 1672) and became a teacher, later a partner, lecturing on mathematics at Watt's Academy in Little Tower Street, Covent Garden London (1725-1735); Manager of the Scots Mining Company at Leadhills, Lanarkshire (1735); surveyed the Clyde with a view to making it navigable Memberships: Berlin Academy (1748) Son of Archibald Stirling, gent, of St Ninian's, Stirling, and his second wife, Anna, daughter of Sir Alexander Hamilton of Hoggs, near Linlithgow; married Barbara Watson of Thirtyacres, near Stirling Fellow 03/11/1726 John Arbuthnot Sir Alexander Cuming In printed list to 1753; resigned (1754) Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Foster References: Gentleman's Magazine 1770, p591 (obituary) Charles Tweedie 'James Stirling: a sketch of his life and works alond with his scientific correspondence' (Oxford, 1922) Ian Tweddle 'James Stirling's Methodus Differentialis: An Annotated Translation of Stirling's Text (Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2003) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Methodus Differentialis: sive Tractatus de Summatione et Interpolatione Serierum Infinitorum (London, 1730) 1692 - 5 Dec 1770 NA1068 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/01/2026 RS_NET\louisianef Yes 26c3879d-6eaf-45bd-b501-d42ada6f17a4