Sir John Leslie

(1766-1832)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Leslie, John, Sir, 1766-1832 NRA: Leslie, Sir John (1766-1832), Knight mathematician and natural philosopher DNB: Leslie, Sir John (1766-1832), mathematician and natural philosopher LBT ID: JoLesli1832 VIAF ID: 45086256 LOC ID: nr97032424	B/BAP: 1766-04-17 DIED: 1832-11-03
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Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh University, author of Experimental Enquiries into the Nature and Properties of Heat (1804), and contributor to the Edinburgh Review.
REFERENCES TO Sir John Leslie: Walter Scott to George Ellis, 13 December 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 A Review of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, for October 1817 (Edinburgh: James Anderson, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 1: ¶ 108 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Observations on Coleridge's Biographia Literaria” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 3-18 Found 1: ¶ 14 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Letter from Dr. Olinthus Petre, to Christopher North, Esq.” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8 (November 1820) 207-09 Found 4: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 7 Scott, John, 1784-1821, “The Lion’s Head” in London Magazine 3 (January 1821) 2-3 Found 1: ¶ 4 Scott, John, 1784-1821, “Cockney Writers” in London Magazine 3 (January 1821) 69-71 Found 1: ¶ 1 Scott, John, 1784-1821, “The Mohocks” in London Magazine 3 (January 1821) 76-77 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, [8? January 1821] in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1808-09 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ n1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 5: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 9 ¶ 12 ¶ 16 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter I. Found 2: ¶ 74 ¶ 75 Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 38 Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 53 Chapter XIX. Found 1: ¶ 10 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 5: 1817-18 Found 1: ¶ 47 Chapter 6: 1817-19 Found 1: ¶ 47 Chapter 8: 1819-20 Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter 9: 1820-21 Found 4: ¶ 14 ¶ 20 ¶ 48 ¶ n1