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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.
Learn about the life and achievements of Alexander John Ellis, a British scholar and linguist who studied in Italy and Sicily. He was the first to use daguerreotypes to record Italian dialects and pronunciation.
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 ...
- Jonathan Stock
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.
- Robert Alan Sanders
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- 1977
- Thesis (Doctoral (PhD))
Learn about the life and work of Alexander John Ellis (1814-1890), who pioneered the scientific study of phonetics and Shakespearean pronunciation. Find out his contributions to spelling reform, music theory, and encyclopedic writing.
Unpublished paper, 'On scalar and clinant algebraical coordinate geometry, introducing a new and more general theory of analytical geometry, including the received as a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
