William Molyneux (April 17th 1656 – October 11th 1698, born with Dublin) was a philosopher and political writer Irish.

It makes its studies in Trinity College with Dublin. Member of the Royal Society, Molyneux founds the Dublin Philosophical Society in the prolongation of the Royal Society of London in the years 1680.

Molyneux is the author (in his correspondences with John Locke) of the known philosophical question under the name of Problème of Molyneux.

Publications

• William Molyneux: Dioptrica Nova, has off treatise dioptricks in two shares, wherein the various effects and appearances off spherick glasses, both convex and concave, individual and combined, in telescopes and microscopes, together with to their usefulness in many concerns off humane life, are explained , London 1692

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