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John Kirkby

(Kirkby, John, 1705-1754)

• Kirkby, John, 1705-1754: The History of Automathes (1745) (HTML with commentary at erbzine.com)

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• Kirkby, John, 1705-1754: Arithmetical institutions. Containing a compleat system of arithmetic, natural, logarithmical, and algebraical in all their branches ... (Printed for B.Motte and C.Bathurst [etc.], 1735) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kirkby, John, 1705-1754: The capacity and extent of the human understanding; exemplified in the extraordinary case of Automathes; a young nobleman, who was accidentally left, in his infancy, upon a desolate island, and continued nineteen years in that solitary state, separate from all human society. A narrative abounding with many surprising occurrences, both useful and entertaining to the reader. (Printed for R. Manby and H. Shute Cox ..., 1747) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kirkby, John, 1705-1754: Die ausserordentlichen begebenheiten des Automates, eines jungen edelmanns, der als ein kind zufalliger weise auf einem unbewohnten eilande gelassen worden, und neunzehen jahre in diesem einsamen stande, ohne alle menschliche gesellschaft geblieben ist. Aus dem englischen úbersezt, und mit kupfern gezieret. (G.P. Monath, 1750) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kirkby, John, 1705-1754: The doctrine of ultimators. Containing a new acquisition to mathematical literature, naturally resulting from the consideration of an equation, as reducible from its variable to its ultimate state: or, a discovery of the true and genuine foundation of what has hitherto mistakenly prevailed under the improper names of fluxions and the differential calculus ... (Printed for J. Hodges, 1748), also by Edward Sir Hales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kirkby, John, 1705-1754: Het vermogen en de uitgebreidheid van's menschen verstand, vertoont in 't ongemeen geval van Automathes, een jong edelman, die toevallig in zyne kindsheid op een onbewoont eiland gelaten en negentien jaren in dien eenzamen staat ... gebleven was ... Uit het engelsch vertaalt. Met kopere platen versiert. (S. van Esveldt, 1748) (page images at HathiTrust)

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