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256: 349: 94:, which sought to take a mathematical, deductive approach to the subject. The first of its four editions appeared in 1712 and it was translated into French and German. He was unable to complete his response to various criticisms of the work before his death. 204:. To this was annexed a tract ("Matter not a Cogitative Substance") to demonstrate the impossibility of thinking or perception being the result of any combination of the parts of matter and motion. 164:
Principia of Newton; An Institution of Fluxions, containing the First Principles, Operations, and Applications of that admirable Method, as invented by Sir Isaac Newton
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A new method for discovering the longitude both at sea and land: humbly proposed to the consideration of the publick. By William Whiston, ... and Humphry Ditton, ...
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A diary containing Ditton's religious meditations appeared posthumously in the
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On his father's death, Ditton devoted himself mainly to the study of
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A new method for discovering the longitude both at sea and land
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A Discourse Concerning the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
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He was author of the following memoirs and treatises:
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Ditton died in the following year, and was buried in
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as illustrating and rendering easier the writings of
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Humphrey Ditton
Salisbury (UK Parliament constituency)
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theology
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Philosophical Transactions
Acta Eruditorum
Wolfius
Galileo Galilei
Christiaan Huygens
Brook Taylor
Resurrection
Jesus Christ
Fluids
William Whiston
longitude
Board of Longitude
Paris
Vienna
Jonathan Swift
Christ Church Greyfriars
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