William Hopkins

William Hopkins FRS (2 February 179313 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the ''sobriquet'' the "senior-wrangler maker."

He also made important contributions in asserting a solid, rather than fluid, interior for the Earth and explaining many geological phenomena in terms of his model. However, though his conclusions proved to be correct, his mathematical and physical reasoning were subsequently seen as unsound. Provided by Wikipedia

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by Hopkins, William
Published 1773
printed for the author, and J. Walder, and sold by Mr. Buckland, in Pater-Noster-Row; and Mr. Lamberett, in the Clift, Lewes; and may be had of most other Booksellers in Town and Country

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Published 1993
Springer New York
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