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Davies Gilbert
FRS
Born
Davies Giddy

(1767-03-06)6 March 1767
St Erth, Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain
Died24 December 1839(1839-12-24) (aged 72)
Eastbourne, Sussex, England
NationalityBritish
SpouseMary Ann Gilbert
Scientific career
FieldsEngineering
InstitutionsRoyal Society
24th President of the Royal Society
In office
1827–1830
Preceded byHumphry Davy
Succeeded byPrince Augustus Frederick

Davies Gilbert FRS (born Davies Giddy, 6 March 1767 – 24 December 1839) was a British engineer, author, and politician. He was elected to the Royal Society on 17 November 1791 and served as its President from 1827 to 1830. He changed his name to Gilbert in 1817 and served as Member of Parliament, first for Helston in Cornwall and then for Bodmin.

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"volume" axis and the traced line. The latter fact had been realised by Davies Gilbert as early as 1792 and used by Jonathan Hornblower in litigation against...

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Modern (1823) and Gilbert and Sandys Carols (1833), both of which were edited by William Sandys and arranged and edited by Davies Gilbert (who also wrote...

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{\pi +2\varphi }{4}}\right)\right)\,.} The curve was studied 1826 by Davies Gilbert and, apparently independently, by Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis in 1836....

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get some". The song is absent from the collections of West-countrymen Davies Gilbert (1822 and 1823) and William Sandys (1833), as well as from the great...

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