Student mathematical proofs by Edward Stephen (?) Wigglesworth, 1788

Sheet with two handwritten mathematical proofs signed "Wigglesworth, 1788," likely referring Harvard student Edward Stephen Wigglesworth. The first proof, titled "Problem 1st," examines a prompt beginning, "Given the distance between the Centers of the Sun and Planet, and their quantities of matter; to find a place where a body will be attracted to neither of them." The second proof, titled "Problem 2d," begins "A & B having returned from a journey, had riden [sic] so far that if the square of the number of miles..." and asks "how many miles did each of them travel?"

Title supplied by cataloger.

Another possible author is Edward Stephen Wigglesworth's brother Thomas Wigglesworth, who graduated in 1793.

Edward Stephen Wigglesworth (1771-1790) was born in 1771 in Cambridge, Mass. Wigglesworth received an AB from Harvard in 1789 and began to study medicine. He died in August 1790. Wigglesworth was the son of the second Hollis Professor of Theology Edward Wigglesworth (1731/2-1794).