Oliver Byrne
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| Born | 1810 | ||||||
| Died | 1890 | ||||||
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academic engineer mathematician | ||||||
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Oliver Byrne (1810? – 9 December 1890?) was a civil engineer and prolific author of works on subjects including mathematics, geometry, and engineering. He is best known for his 'coloured' book of Euclid's Elements. He was a large contributor to Spon's Dictionary of Engineering. Augustus de Morgan described him as a minor, rather eccentric British mathematician.
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The Apprentice or First Book for Mechanics, Machinists, and Engineers A. J. Fisher (New York) 1874
The Practical, complete and correct Gager, containing a description of Parker and Byrne's patent Calculating Instruments; with their use and application, Bailey (London), 1840
The Fifth Book of Euclid simplified, 1841.
The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners, 1847
The Miscellaneous Mathematical Papers of OB, L. Maynard, ed. John Byrne, 1848.
The Calculus of Form, circa 1848.[1]
OB (ed) Appleton's Dictionary of machines, Mechanics, Engine work and Engineering, 2 vols, Daniel Appleton and Co., 1852.
The Calculator's Constant Companion, J. W. Moore (Philadelphia), 1854.
The Creed of Saint Athanasius proved by a Mathematical parallel (a satire), 1859.
Description and Use of the Byrnegraph, an instrument for multiplying, dividing and comparing lines, angles, surfaces and solids, Allard (London), 1846.
Dual Arithmetic, A New Art, Bell & Daldy (London), 1865. (ISBN 978-1-141-92119-5)
The Essential Elements of Practical Mechanics, based on the principal of work, designed for engineering students, Spon (London), 1868.
General Method of Solving Equations of all degrees, applied particularly to equations of the second, third, fourth and fifth, Spon (London), 1868.
The Geometry of Compasses: Or Problems Resolved by the Mere Description Of Circles, Lockwood (London), 1877. (ISBN 978-1-104-05805-0)
The Handbook for the Artisan, Mechanic, and Engineer, Collins (Philadelphia), 1853.
How to Measure the Earth with the Assistance of Railroads, Currie and Bowman (Newcastle), 1838.
Lectures on the Art and Science of War, Donahoe (Boston), 1853.
New and Improved Systems of Logarithms, Day (London), 1838.
Pocketbook for Railroad and Civil Engineers, Shepherd (New York), 1851.
The Practical Metal-Worker's assistant, Baird (Philadelphia), 1851. (ISBN 978-1-151-79618-9)
The Practical Model Calculator, Baird (Philadelphia), 1852. (ISBN 978-1-145-93075-9)
A Short Practical Treatise on Spherical trigonometry, Valpy, 1835. (ISBN 978-1-110-89691-2)
Spon's Dictionary of Engineering, Spon, 1869–1874.
Tables of Dual Logarithms, Dual Numbers, and corresponding Natural Numbers, Bell & Daldy, 1867
Byrne's Treatise on navigation and nautical Astronomy, the author, 1875.
The Young Dual Arithmetician, Bell & Daldy, 1865
The Young Geometrician, or Practical geometry without compasses, Chapman and Hall (London), 1865. (ISBN 978-1-143-82512-5) (online edition from Google books)
