Swineshead

When they discussed falling bodies, as did Swineshead (fl. 1350) in his chapter “On the Place of an Element” (De loco elementi), it was primarily to show that mathematical techniques are inapplicable to natural motions of this type (Hoskin and Molland, 1966).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

Swineshead considerably advanced Brad - wardine's analysis relating to instantaneous velocity and other concepts necessary for the calculus; signifi - cantly his work was known to Leibniz, who wished to have it republished.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

Swineshead took up the question of the “latitude” of rarity and density, and in so doing answered implicitly how one could go about determining the meaning of “amount of matter” or “quantity of matter.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

But mark the Consequence: The King never enjoy'd himself after, nor was it long before he was poison'd by a Monk at _Swineshead_ Abbey.

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) Henry Carey

The King halted at the Abbey, close to the town of Swineshead, which place he left on horseback; but being taken ill, was moved in a litter to Sleaford, and thence to his castle at Newark, where he died on the following day, in the year 1216.

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

Seven miles from the sea-port of Boston, in Lincolnshire, lies the rural town of Swineshead, once itself a port, the sea having flowed up to the market-place, where there was a harbour.

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

The name of Swineshead is familiar to every reader of English history, from its having been the resting-place of King John, after he lost the whole of his baggage, and narrowly escaped with his life, when crossing the marshes from Lynn to

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

Apart from this traditional interest, Swineshead has other antiquarian and historical associations.

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

Oh, while it strikes me, good, too, is that 'Swineshead Monk' ballad!

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

“Of private history: I wrote to Lord Lyndhurst on Feb. 20th, requesting an exchange of the living to which he had presented my brother in Dec. 1844 for that of Swineshead: to which he consented. ”

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896