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Alexander John Ellis ( 14 giugno 1814 – 28 ottobre 1890) è stato un matematico, fisico, filologo e studioso di fonetica britannico . Biografia. Inizialmente specializzato in matematica e studi classici, divenne un noto fonetista del suo tempo.
Alexander John Ellis FRS (14 June 1814 – 28 October 1890) was an English mathematician, philologist and early phonetician who also influenced the field of musicology.
Ellis, Alexander John. Born Alexander John Sharpe in Hoxton, London, on the 14th June 1814, Ellis attended private boarding school at Walthamstow, London. While there he was offered the opportunity of a life of study and research on condition he adopted his mother’s maiden name, Ellis.
Welcome to the online atlas of Alexander J. Ellis's The Existing Phonology of English Dialects (EPED). The EPED, which was published in 1889, is our chief source of information of the phonetics and phonology (and much more besides) of traditional English and Scots dialects in the second half of the 19 th century.
This article examines early modern interactions between music-theoretical writings on tuning and consonance, natural philosophy (systematic, scientific understanding of the natural world), and the colonization of the American tropics. Part I argues that early modern music theorists leveraged justificatory frameworks inherited from ...
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Symbols, both graphic and mathematical, exercised a lifetime fascination for the Victorian scholar, Alexander John Ellis (1814-90) in connection with his investigations into spelling reform, phonetics, mathematics, physics, and particularly philology.
Alexander John Ellis was born Alexander John Sharpe on June 14, 1814, in Hoxton, Middlesex, and died in London on October 28, 1890. He studied mathematics and philology at Trinity College Cambridge, earning his bachelor’s degree in 1837.
