John Keill FRS (1 December 1671 – 31 August 1721) was a Scottish mathematician, natural philosopher, and cryptographer who was an important defender of...

Keill is a Scottish family name that may refer to: James Keill (1673–1719), Scottish physician and philosopher Jason Keill, New Zealand musician John...

in 1709 and LL.D. in 1714. Taylor studied mathematics under John Machin and John Keill, leading to Taylor obtaining a solution to the problem of "center...

1673 the son of Sarah Cockburn and Robert Keill, an Edinburgh lawyer. He was the younger brother of John Keill, and the nephew of William Cockburn. He was...

therefore the apple draws the earth, as well as the earth draws the apple." John Conduitt, Newton's assistant at the Royal Mint and Newton's nephew-in-law...

Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, in 1691. In 1708, John Keill, writing in the journal of the Royal Society and with Newton's presumed...

William of Orange, Louis XIV of France, Oliver Cromwell, Peter the Great, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and many other people of note of that...

lectures by John Keill, who used innovative demonstrations to illustrate difficult concepts of Newtonian natural philosophy. When Keill left Oxford in...

(Concerning Money Matters), one of the first books on mathematical economics. John Keill, writing in the journal of the Royal Society and with Isaac Newton's presumed...

astronomer John Machin that "his head never ached but when he was studying the subject". According to Brewster, Edmund Halley also told John Conduitt that...