2"i S, VIII. Dec. 10. '59.] 



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bills doHiina Blancia Laucastriae Dacissa, quce in cccksia 

 S. Paul!, Loudon, jacet tumulata." 



In Sarum Horae : — 



" This vi day of Aprill 1580 at — of the docke in the 

 afternoone (there was) an earthequake in London and all 

 about yt." 



J. C, J. 



Fly-leaf Scribblings. — In a Bible of the Ge- 

 nevan version, fol. 1576, in a very old hand : — 



" If preaching fayle as yt doth begin 

 the people must quayle & d}' in their sin 

 & if yt decrease gods curse is at hand 

 to destroy us our peace o'' soules & o»" laud 

 therfor lets be mending gods plagues to p«vent 

 for after our ending tis to late to repent 

 tak heed then to preaching gods word to imbrace 

 & learne to take warning, lest god y" deface." 



Joseph Rix. 

 St. Neots. 



" To Sleep soundlj', 

 Eat ronndlj', 

 And Drink profoundly, 

 Is the ready way to become Fatt. 

 " Sic ait C.B. 1683." 



From a MS. common-place book ex libris 

 Caroli Blake, 1681. J.G.N. 



MATHEMATICAL BIBLIOGBAFHY. 



(Continued from 2"* S. iii. 384.) 



The historical works of Theophrastus and of 

 Eudemus, alluded to by Montucla, are lost. The 

 Enarrationes Geometricce of Geminus are not 

 known to be extant, but I have already (P' S. vol. 

 x. p. 48.) given reasons for surmising that they 

 may yet be recovered. Barocius cited them about 

 the middle of the 16th century. 



Amsteladam't, sixteen-sixty. Vossius, Gerardus .... 

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Urbino, seventeen-eight. Baldi, Bernardino. ' Cro- 

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 Quarto. 



This work was written some century before the 

 above date, and probably before that of Herigone. 



Liigduni, sixteen-ninety. Dechales, Claude Francis 

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And here, though out of chronological order, we 

 may place : 



Geneva, 1743, 1746-7, 9, 52. Wolf, Christian. « Elem- 

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We now come lo another set of works the full 

 titles of which suffice in most cases to convey a 

 general knowledge of their objects : 



Oxonice, sixteen-ninetythree. Wallis, John 



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This constitutes the second volume of Wallis's 

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Lipsia, seventeen -forty two. Heilbeonner, Jo. Chris- 

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Here in strictness the works of Scheibel and of 

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 them from actual inspection I shall omit or defer 

 their description. I have already noticed the his- 

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Paris, An VII [17991 Mo^'Tucr^, J. F. ' Histoire 

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 expose le tableau et le developpement des principales de- 

 couvertes dans toutes les parties des Mathematiques, les 

 contestations qui se sont ^leve^s entre les Matheniaticiens, 

 et les principaux traits de la vie des plus c^lebres. Xou- 

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 jusque vers I'epoque actuelle.' 



Tome Premier, Tome Second. Quarto. 



Paris, An X (mai 1802). Montucla. * Histoire ' &c. 

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Lalande's editorship commences at p. -336 of 

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Parma, seventeen-ninetyseven and seventeen-ninety- 

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Zorarfon, eighteen- twelve. Hutton, Charles. 'Tracts on 

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Tract xxxiii (vol. II, pp. 143—305) is a 'His- 

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Edinburgh, eighteen- t\yenty. Leslie, John. 'ThePhi- 

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ionrfora, eighteen- thirtyfour. Peacock, George. 'Re- 

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 Association . . . held at Cambridge in 1833.' Octavo. 



Paris, 1838, 8, 40, 41. Libei, Guillaume. ' Histoire 



