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Mertonian, n. and a.|mɜːˈtəʊnɪən|
[f. the name of Merton College (founded by Walter de Merton in 1264) + -ian.]
A. n. A member of Merton College, Oxford.
1883Fortn. Rev. XXXIX. 34 Another Mertonian, John Tatham,..was elected Rector of Lincoln College. 1899B. W. Henderson Merton College 172 Not a few Mertonians have been appointed to University Chairs. 1954Postmaster (Merton College, Oxf.) Sept. 13 The only other Mertonian to appear in New London was Louis MacNeice. 1961D. Knowles Eng. Mystical Trad. iii. 41 In mathematics and kindred sciences the series of great Mertonians at Oxford, Thomas Bradwardine, Richard Swineshead, William Heytesbury and Ralph Strood were the masters of the academic world of their day. 1971E. Grant Physical Sci. in Middle Ages iv. 25 The Mertonians arrived at a precise definition of uniform acceleration.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Merton College or its members; used spec. with reference to a school of mathematics and astronomy that existed there in the 14th century.
1899B. W. Henderson Merton College 278 The society..entertained a large Mertonian company at a dinner in Hall. 1947G. Sarton Introd. Hist. Sci. III. i. 116 Our knowledge of the early Mertonian scientists is very insufficient, because a good part of the Merton library and archives was sold as waste paper about the middle of the sixteenth century. 1959A. C. Crombie in M. Clagett Critical Probl. Hist. Sci. 91 In finding expressions for rates of change, they [sc. Oxford mathematicians] formulated sophisticated concepts like those of acceleration and instantaneous velocity..and reached important results like the Mertonian Mean Speed Law. 1974A. J. Pomerans tr. Clavelin's Nat. Philos. Galileo ii. 80 This proof..remained indirect, as did all the Mertonian attempts to prove the mean-speed theorem. |