James Hodgson (mathematician)

James Hodgson (1672–1755) was an English astronomer, mathematical teacher, lecturer and writer.

[2] He promoted Flamsteed's work in his textbook A System of the Mathematics (1723) and has been credited with improving standards and examination success at the School.

[2] When Flamsteed died Hodgson assisted his widow in the publication of her husband's works, and he appears as co-editor of the Atlas Cœlestis, published in 1729.

[2] Hodgson wrote papers in the Philosophical Transactions (vols.

), and also:[2] He prefixed a short treatise on The Theory of Perspective to the English translation of the French Jesuit Jean Dubreuil's work on perspective, which went to a fourth edition in 1765.