Works
- Algebra: see Horner's method.
- ‘A Tribute of Friendship,’ a poem addressed to his friend Thomas Fussell, appended to a ‘Funeral Sermon on Mrs. Fussell,’ Bristol, 1820.
- ‘Natural Magic,’ a pamphlet on optics dealing with virtual images, London, 1832.
- ‘Questions for the Examination of Pupils on … General History,’ Bath, 1843, 12mo.
A complete edition of Horner's works was promised by Thomas Stephens Davies, but never appeared.
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“The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”
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