2 nd S. IX. May 19. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



391 



friendly voice which has endeavoured to exalt 

 him in the eves of his fellow men. This is a suf- 

 ficient answer to the Query, " Why was a bust of 

 Dibdin erected at Greenwich Hospital by Admiral 

 Sir Joseph Yorke?" S. H. M. 



Hodnet. 



SIR JONAS MOORE. 

 (2 nd S. ix. 363.) 



I have before me a small volume in 18mo , 

 bearing tbe title of 



" Moore's Arithmetick : discovering the Secrets of that 

 Art in Numbers and Species. In Two Bookes. Hy Jonas 

 Moore, late of Durham. London: printed by Thomas 

 Harper, for Nathaniel Brookes, at the Angell in Cornehill. 

 1650." 



There is a portrait of the author opposite the 

 lille-page, bearing the inscription : " Effigies Jonae 

 .Moore, A°iEtat. 35, 1649; H. Stone, Pinxit ; T. 

 Cross, Sculpsit." The countenance is highly in- 

 tellectual and pleasing. The first booke of this 

 treatise contains 272 pages, the second 147 : the 

 last thirty pages being occupied with a table of 

 squares, cubes, &c, from 1 to 1000. The author, 

 in his " Epistle to the Reader," proves the cor- 

 rectness of the observation of your correspondent 

 G. N. (2 od S. ix. 374.), when he says, l; the dedi- 

 cations of old books often contain details and par- 

 ticularities of individuals and family history now 

 quite obsolete and forgotten." This " Epistle to 

 the Header" gives the following particulars re- 

 specting Mr. Jonas (afterwards Sir Jonas) Moore. 

 The author says : 



" Upon the first coming in of the Scotts, 1640, in a 

 .solitary retyrednesse, with a settled resolution, I fell upon 

 the studyes Mathematical!, animated thereunto by the 

 promised helpe of Mr. William Milburne, Minister of 

 Brancepeth in the County of Durham ; my most worthy 

 friend, and a great Master in all parts of Learning, who 

 not many weekes after departed this life, leaving me 

 cither in choise to give over my journey, or travel with- 

 out either Guide or Company; and a long time did I 

 wander in the by-paths of other men's mechasicall prac- 

 tises, till at last, by a most happy accident, 1 had Mr. 

 Oughtred's Clavis Mulhematicce bestowed upon me, by 

 which I unlocked the Mysteries of the Demonstrations 

 of the Auncients, and set myselfe in the highway to per- 

 fection ; unto which Booke, and to the Author's most 

 absolute favours, I owe all the mathematicall knowledge 

 I have." 



A little farther on he says : 



" If the times serve, the charge be not too great, and I 

 find thy" (the reader's) "kind acceptation hereof" (the 

 Arithmetic), "expect the following Treatises to he pub- 

 lished, the most whereof are perfected for the Presse: — 



" 1st. The Perfect Geometer, containing first six liookes 

 of Euclid, and as much of the 11, 12, and 13, as concern 

 the knowledge of solids. 



" 2. Locus resolut. Containing Euclid's Data. 



" .'i. The Mechanick. Containing the practice of Geo- 

 metry in surveying, fortification, architecture, &c. 



" 1. Yi.-i ad Tuba optici, speculi, ustorii, necnon Instrn- 

 menti auditorii perfectionem aperta. Containing the doc- 



trine of Conicall Sections, and demonstrating the nature 

 of such bodies as must serve to the former purpose. 



"5. Astronomia Britanica. Containing the uses of the 

 Globes and their projections, the Theory of the Planets, 

 Ancient and Moderne; together with Astronomical! 

 Tables, calculations for Ecclipses, &c." 



The book on Arithmetic is dedicated to Sir Wil- 

 liam Persall, Knt., Edmund Wild, Esq., and Ni- 

 cholas Shuttleworth, Esq., " in thanketullnesse of 

 their great curtesies" and aid "in the advance- 

 ment of these his Jir.it Labours." The author 

 afterwards speaks '' of the truly noble paire of 

 Brothers, Richard Shuttleworth of Galthrop, in 

 the County of Lancaster, Esq., and Nicholas 

 Shuttleworth of Faceth, in the County of York, 

 Esq.," as " his great friends in the furtherance of 

 his studies, and in other his urgent affaires." The 

 "Epistle to the Reader" is dated, "From my 

 Chamber at M r . Elias Allen his house over against 

 S' Clement's Church in the Strand, 30 th of October, 

 1649." The second book of the Arithmetick is 

 dedicated to " John Bathurst, Doctor of Medi- 

 cine; "whose eldest son, Christopher Bathurst, 

 was, I think, from the form of expression used, a 

 pupil of the author's. Sir Jonas Moore appears 

 to have died 27th Aug. 1679, when he was sixty- 

 five years of age. If the above trifling particulars 

 be not already known to your correspondent M. 

 S. R., tbey may be acceptable to him. I do not 

 think tbe Arithmetic, from which I have quoted, 

 is a book of very common occurrence : it is sel- 

 dom found in catalogues of the present day. 



Pishey Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



"NOUVEAU TESTAMENT." 



(2 nd S. ix. 307.) 



"Nouveau Testament, par les Theologiens de Louvain, 

 h Bourdsaux, m.dclxxxvi. Cum Approbatione et Per- 

 missione." 



Of this curious production there is a copy in 

 the Fagellian Department of the Library of Tri- 

 nity College, Dublin (z. 9. 28.), from a cursory 

 examination of which, some years since, I " made 

 a note " of the following libeiiics with the text, 

 which, if they had not been detected and de- 

 nounced, would go far to nullify the Apostolic 

 statement of the use of the " written book," " that 

 thou mightest know the certainty of the things in 

 which thou hast been instructed." These are given, 

 not as all, but as chief instances of wilful mis- 

 translation : — 



Acts xiii. 2. "Corame ils offroient au Seigneur le Sa- 

 crifice du 3iesse." 

 1 Cor. xiii. 15. "II sera sauve, quand a lui, ainsi tout fois 

 par le feu cle Purgntoire." 

 1 Tim. iv. 1. "Quelquns se separaint de la foi So- 

 mame." 

 „ „ 2. " Ayans la conscience cauterize, condam- 

 mans le sacrement du marriage." 



