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Alexander John Ellis FRS (14 June 1814 – 28 October 1890) was an English mathematician, philologist and early phonetician who also influenced the field of musicology.
Nationality: British. Born Alexander John Sharpe in Hoxton, London, on the 14th June 1814, Ellis attended private boarding school at Walthamstow, London. While there he was offered the opportunity of a life of study and research on condition he adopted his mother’s maiden name, Ellis.
This article examines early modern interactions between music-theoretical writings on tuning and consonance, natural philosophy (systematic, scientific understanding of the natural world), and the colonization of the American tropics. Part I argues that early modern music theorists leveraged justificatory frameworks inherited from ...
Nov 27, 2012 · Ellis, Alexander John, 1814-1890. Publication date. 1848. Topics. Phonetics. Publisher. [London, Fred Pitman, Phonetic Depot, Queens Head Passage, Paternoster Row] Collection. library_of_congress; americana. Contributor. The Library of Congress. Language. English. Titlepage and text printed using phonetic spelling and characters.
Symbols, both graphic and mathematical, exercised a lifetime fascination for the Victorian scholar, Alexander John Ellis (1814-90) in connection with his investigations into spelling reform, phonetics, mathematics, physics, and particularly philology.
ELLIS (originally [ [Sharpe), Alexander John]] (1814-1890), English philologist, mathematician, musician and writer on phonetics, was born at Hoxton on the 14th of June 1814. He was educated at Shrewsbury, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his degree in high mathematical honours.
Unpublished paper, 'On scalar and clinant algebraical coordinate geometry, introducing a new and more general theory of analytical geometry, including the received as a particular care, and explaining "imaginary points, intersections, and lines"' by Alexander J [John] Ellis Creator: Alexander John Ellis Reference number: AP/43/3
