This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...Naturalis Principia Mathematica, --announcing his great discovery of the Laws of Gravitation. S. Miscellaneous. Robert Burton.--Born at Lindley, Leicestershire, --educated at Oxford, --spent most of his time secluded within his college, --of a melancholy cast of mind, --foretold correctly the time of his decease. Work: ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...Naturalis Principia Mathematica, --announcing his great discovery of the Laws of Gravitation. S. Miscellaneous. Robert Burton.--Born at Lindley, Leicestershire, --educated at Oxford, --spent most of his time secluded within his college, --of a melancholy cast of mind, --foretold correctly the time of his decease. Work: --The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Democritus Junior. Sir Thomas Browne.--A Norwich physician, --born in London. Works: --Religio Medici, On Vulgar Errors, Urn Burial. SCIENTIFIC MEN, NOT AUTHORS. Samuel Horrocks.--A gifted astronomer, --died young. Thomas Sydenham.--A physician, --" applied the Baconian principle of philosophy to medicine," by treating diseases according to the experience gained by observation, --celebrated for his skill in small-pox and fever cases. John Ray.--Son of an Essex blacksmith, --an accomplished naturalist, --parent of our modern Zoology, Physiology, and Anatomy, --wrote scientific works, which do not belong to the period, --one of the founders of the Royal Society. Halley, --astronomer. Flamsteed, --first Astronomer-Royal. (Notices of others in this class will be found under "Inventions, Discoveries, and Improvements" in each reign.) ARTISTS. Architects. Inigo Jones--d. 1620, --introduced the Palladian Style of architecture, --the Banquet House of Whitehall being his finest work. Sir Christopher Wren, --after the Great Fire designed over fifty churches in London, St Paul's Cathedral being his masterpiece. Painters. Rubens.--The finest of the Flemish artists, --patronized by Charles I. Vandyke.--A giftedDutch portrait-painter, --patronized by Charles and the nobility, nearly all the portraits of the Royal Family and of Cavaliers, extant, having been executed by him. Sir Peter Lely.--A Westphalian, --Court painter to Cha
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