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John Farey Sr.
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John Farey Sr. was an English geologist and writer best known for Farey sequence, a mathematical construct that is named after him.
John Farey with QR code
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Rees's Cyclopædia
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Rees's Cyclopædia, in full The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, was a 19th-century British encyclopaedia edited by Rev. Abraham Rees, a Presbyterian minister and
John Farey Sr.
…from horticulture, geology, meteorology, metrology, currency decimalisation, music and mathematics to pacifism. He was an important contributor to Rees's Cyclopædia with articles on canals, mineralogy, surveying and a number of the scientific and mathematical basis of sound. His Canals article is the largest in the…
Title page of first edition, 1819
Title page of first edition, 1819
Abraham Rees (1743–1825), compiler of Rees's Cyclopædia.
Abraham Rees (1743–1825), compiler of Rees's Cyclopædia.
A plate from the atlas.
A plate from the atlas.
Samuel Fisher Bradford. Publisher of the American edition of Rees's Cyclopædia. Original in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Samuel Fisher Bradford. Publisher of the American edition of Rees's Cyclopædia. Original in the Art Institute of Chicago.