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4 unusual facts about Joseph Raphson


Naturalistic pantheism

The term “pantheism" is derived from Greek words pan (Greek: πᾶν) meaning "all" and theos (θεός) meaning God. The term pantheism was coined by Joseph Raphson in his work De spatio reali, published in 1697. The term was also used by Irish writer John Toland in his 1705 work Socinianism Truly Stated, by a pantheist that described pantheism as the "opinion of those who believe in no other eternal being but the universe.

Newton's method

In numerical analysis, Newton's method (also known as the Newton–Raphson method), named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.

In 1690, Joseph Raphson published a simplified description in Analysis aequationum universalis.

Richard Sault

In 1694 Sault wrote A Treatise of Algebra as an appendix to William Leybourne's Pleasure with Profit; it included Joseph Raphson's Converging Series for all manner of adfected equations.



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