James Stirling was a Scottish mathematician. He was nicknamed "The Venetian".
Stirling's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, general view. It is the small plate between the two large tablets.
Stirling's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, detail
Plaque to the Stirlings of Garden, Dunblane Cathedral
Methodus differentialis, 1764
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James Stirling (mathematician)
…nicknamed "The Venetian". The Stirling numbers, Stirling permutations, and Stirling's approximation are named after him. He also proved the correctness of Isaac Newton's classification of cubic plane curves. Stirling was born on 11 May 1692 O.S. at Garden House near Stirling, the third son of Archibald Stirling…
Portrait of Isaac Newton, 1689
Some of the figures added by Isaac Newton in his 1672 and 1681 editions of the Geographia Generalis. These figures appeared in subsequent editions as well.
Newton in 1702 by Godfrey Kneller
A replica of the reflecting telescope Newton presented to the Royal Society in 1672 (the first one he made in 1668 was loaned to an instrument maker but there is no further record of what happened to it).