Hill, Thomas
clergyman, educator, inventor, author, was born Jan. 7, 1818, in New Brunswick, N. J. He was president of Harvard university in 1862-68, and held pastorates at Waltham, Mass., and Portland, Maine. He invented several mathematical instruments, one of which is the occultator. He was the author of The Postulates of Religion and Ethics; The Stars and the Earth; The True Order of Studies; Geometry and Faith; Curvature; Jesus the Interpreter of Nature; Christmas, and Poems on Slavery; The Natural Sources of Theology; and In the Woods and Elsewhere. He died Nov. 21, 1891, in Waltham, Mass.