Humphry Ditton

Ditton studierte Theologie. Durch den Einfluss von Isaac Newton wurde er zum mathematical master des Christ’s Hospitals gewählt.

• The general laws of nature and motion: with their application to mechanicks. Also the doctrine of the centripetal forces, … Being a part of the great Mr. Newton’s principles. … illustrated with variety of useful theorems and problems, … printed by T. Mead, for Jer. Seller and Cha. Price; and John Senex, London 1705.
• An Institution of Fluxions, containing the First Principles, Operations, and Applications of that admirable Method, as invented by Sir Isaac Newton. 1706
• Synopsis Algebraica of John Alexander, with many additions and corrections. 1709
• A treatise of perspective demonstrative and practical Illustrated with copper cutts. printed for B. Tooke; and D. Midwinter, London 1712.
• Discourse on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (1714)
• The New Law of Fluids, or a Discourse concerning the Ascent of Liquids in exact Geometrical Figures, between two nearly contiguous Surfaces. 1714
• William Whiston, Humphry Ditton: A New Method for Discovering the Longitude Both at Sea and Land (1715). Kessinger Pub Co, 2009, ISBN 1-104-59812-4.
• An institution of fluxions: containing the first principles, the operations, … of that admirable method; … printed by W. Botham, for James and John Knapton, London 1726. The second edition, revised, corrected, and improv'd, by John Clarke.
• [Humfred Dittons] Wahrheit der christlichen Religion aus der Auferstehung Jesu Christi auf eine demonstrativische Art bewiesen: nebst e. Anh. Von der Immaterialität der Seelen und andern wichtigen Stücken der natürlichen Religion; mit e. Nachricht von d. Verf. Leben u. Schriften u. dienl. Anm. … / nebst e. Vorr. de. Hrn … von Mosheim von neuem hrsg. von Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten. 4., verm. u. verb. Auflage. Schröder & Merkwitz, Braunschweig / Hildesheim 1749. Digitalisat

• Ditton, Humphry. In: Encyclopædia Britannica. 11. Auflage. Band 8: Demijohn – Edward. London 1910, S. 325 (englisch, Volltext [Wikisource]).