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. 1855 Excerpt: ...part will deserve to appear in another and a more appropriate place: but Cerda and Eximeno vindicate their title to rank in the number of Madrid, and was the preceptor of the Prince of the Astu-' rias, and the other royal children (Caballero, Supplem. Script., S. J.) mathematicians. Cerda was the author of a highly ...
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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. 1855 Excerpt: ...part will deserve to appear in another and a more appropriate place: but Cerda and Eximeno vindicate their title to rank in the number of Madrid, and was the preceptor of the Prince of the Astu-' rias, and the other royal children (Caballero, Supplem. Script., S. J.) mathematicians. Cerda was the author of a highly esteemed book on the elements of mathematics; and Eximeno, at the school of Salamanca, and afterwards at that of Segovia, instructed the young nobles in mathematics and the science of artillery, on which subjects, as well as on music, we have received contributions from his prolific pen. But why tarry to enumerate all the ornaments of Spanish science? Who does not know how great was the multitude of learned men, expelled from Spain in 1767, by the infatuated Charles III and his advisers, and thrown on the coasts of Italy? Some of these exiles, Requeno, Ortiz, Clavigero, and others, whose names are yet in reserve to deck our pages, the Chevalier d'Azara, though he largely participated in the criminality of this ill-advised and barbarous measure, forgetting his antipathy for the Society in his veneration for learning, received and entertained in his Roman, palace. " During the sojourn of the Spanish Jesuits in Italy,"--our quotation is again from Coxe--" many of them continued their literary and scientific labors. These men, always eager for improvement, thronged the public libraries: their sorrows needed the solace of literary pursuits. The academies, the theatres even, resounded with their productions. They deposited in the literary journals the rich hoards of their industry; and it should be mentioned to their glory that the frequent object of their exertions was to assert the honor of a country, from which they had been brutally ...
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