Walter Minto collection 1787-1793.

College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.) Students

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Moffat, James C. (James Clement), 1811-1890

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Church historian James Clement Moffat, son of David Douglas Moffat and Margaret Clement, was born in Scotland. He studied Latin, Greek, French, German, and Hebrew while he worked at a printing shop. He came to New York in 1833 and entered the junior class at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), where he graduated in 1835. He studied and tutored at Yale and also at Princeton, and in 1839 he went to Lafayette College as professor of Latin and Greek. The Presbytery of Oxford, Ohio,...

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Minto, Walter, 1753-1796

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Walter Minto was one of Princeton's earliest teachers of mathematics, and perhaps the first deserving the designation "mathematician." He was born in the Merse district of Scotland in a family of Spanish origin. He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Edinburgh. Minto was in Pisa Italy, on March 13, 1781, when William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, which Minto got to see in a telescope. His publications include his treatise RESEARCHES INTO SOME PARTS OF THE THEOTY OF TH...