Hill, Thomas

S.T.D. (Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1860), LL.D. (Yale College, New Haven, Conn., 1863), Unitarian; b. at New Brunswick, N.J., Jan. 7, 1818; graduated at Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1843, and at the Cambridge Divinity School, 1845; was pastor at Waltham, Ma ., 1845-59; president of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, O., 1859-62, and of Harvard College, 1862-68; has been since 1873 pastor at Portland, Me. He took the Scott premium of the Franklin Institute, for an instrument which calculates eclipses and occultations; and also invented the nautrigon for solving spherical triangles. He accompanied Aga iz around South America in 1871 and 1872. He is the author of Christmas, and Poems upon Slavery, Boston, 1843; Elementary Treatise on Arithmetic, 1845; On Curvature, 1850; Geometry and Faith, New York, 1849, enlarged ed. 1874, greatly enlarged ed., Boston, 1882; First Le ons in Geometry, Boston, 1855, revised and enlarged 1878; Jesus the Interpreter of Nature, 1860; Second Book of Geometry, 1862; The True Order of Studies, New York, 1876; The Natural Sources of Theology, And over, 1877; and sundry sermons, orations, and lectures; also numerous communications in reviews, magazines, and scientific journals.