Salmon

Salmon, GEORGE, mathematician and divine, was born in Dublin, September 25, 1819, and had his education at Cork, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated as senior moderator in mathematics in 1839. He was appointed to a fellowship in 1841, took orders in 1844, and became regius professor of Divinity in 1866, provost of the college in 1888, being also a Fellow of the Royal Society, a D.D. of Dublin and Edinburgh, D.C.L. of Oxford, and LL.D. of Cambridge. His contributions to mathematical learning include many papers in the special journals, and admirable treatises on Analytic Geometry, The Modern Higher Geometry, Conic Sections, The Higher Plane Curves, and Geometry of Three Dimensions. In the department of theology his writings comprise four volumes of strong and thoughtful sermons, College Sermons (1861), The Reign of Law (1873), Non-Miraculous Christianity (1881), Gnosticism and Agnosticism (1887), and two collections of his lectures, the first forming an excellent Introduction to the New Testament (4th ed. 1890), the other on the Infallibility of the Church (1888), a vigorous and unusually readable controversial work.