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About Peter Nicholson
Peter Nicholson was a Scottish architect, mathematician and engineer. Largely self-taught, he was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker but soon abandoned his trade in favour of teaching and writing. He practised as an architect but is best remembered for his theoretical work on the skew arch, his invention of draughtsman's instruments, including a centrolinead and a cyclograph, and his prolific writing on numerous practical subjects.
Everything about Peter Nicholson →- Occupation
- engineer, mathematician, architect
- Citizenship
- Scotland
- Born
- July 20, 1765
- Died
- June 18, 1844