Barlow, Peter

F.R.8., a distinguished English physicist and mathematician, B. at Norwich in 1776. He was Profe or of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich for a period of 40 years. In 1823, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1825 received from it the Copley medal for his researches in magnetism. In 1829, he was admitted a member of the French Institute. His greatest work is the Mathe matical and Philosophical Dictionary, which at the present time is very scarce and of great value. He was also the author of an elaborate work on the Machinery and Manufactures of Great Britain, (1837); of a treatise on the Force and Rapidity of Locomotives, (1838); and of an E ay on Magnetic Attraction, one of the first works in which the phenomena of magnetism were distinctly enunciated. D. 1862. Barlow, in Ohio, a post-township of Washington co., about 12 m. W. of Marietta.