He studied theology privately, and was for some time also a dissenting minister, at Tonbridge, where he married a Miss Ball.
[2] He produced also a theological work, A Discourse Concerning the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which sought to take a mathematical, deductive approach to the subject.
A diary containing Ditton's religious meditations appeared posthumously in the Gospel Magazine (September 1777, pp.
[1] He was author of the following memoirs and treatises: In 1709 he published the Synopsis Algebraica of John Alexander, with additions and corrections.
In his Treatise on Perspective (1712) he explained his mathematical principles; and anticipated the method afterwards elaborated by Brook Taylor.