Hill, Thomas

N. J., 1818-1891. A Unitarian clergyman and educator and a mathematician of eminence. He was president of Harvard University, 1862-1868, and held pastorates at Waltham, Ma achusetts, and Portland, Maine. He invented several mathematical instruments, one of which is the occult at or. The Postulates of Religion and Ethics; The Stars and the Earth; The True Order of Studies; Geometry and Faith; Curvature; Jesus the Interpreter of Nature; Christmas, and Poems on Slavery; The Natural Sources of Theology; In the Woods and Elsewhere, containing notable experiments in cla ic metres; and several text-books on arithmetic and geometry. See Bibliography of Maine. El. Le. Put.