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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"d S. IX. June 9. '60. 



qui ex Barociana Bibliotheca nuper in Angliam 

 avecti sunt, quos inter Gemini liber extat nondum 

 editus." It may be that this manuscript yet 

 exists in some English library. It is strange that 

 the minute and laborious Petavius, writing as an 

 editor of Geminus, should have omitted the title 

 of the work, if it had been given. It is also 

 strange that Heilbronner should have preserved a 

 title from some other source, in the contrary case. 

 But one of these things must have happened. 



2. Montucla's motto. Many have attributed 

 this motto to Bacon, because they find it in Bacon. 

 But in truth Bacon took it from the prophet 

 Daniel ; and it has recently been used, by help of 

 railroads, schools, &c, to prove that the end of the 

 world is at hand. It is Daniel xii. 4. Multi per- 

 transibunt, et avgebitur Scientia. 



3. The Weidlers. Both names appear on the 

 title-page, Job. Fred., and Geo. Immanuel : the 

 former the historian of astronomy, the latter de- 

 scribed as ss. theol. cult. It appears to be the 

 thesis of a university disputation at Wittembenr 

 in 1727. 



4. The mathematical bibliographers, Rogg and 

 Sohnke. Rogg's work is an unsafe guide, except 

 as a source of suggestion to a person who knows 

 the subject, and is well up to the sort of errors 

 which occur in catalogues. The alphabetical in- 

 dex at the end is a convenience, and to some ex- 

 tent a preservative. The work of Sohnke, which 

 is entirely on recent books, is full of well given 

 titles, but the references must be looked at with 

 caution. For example, the History of Physical 

 Astronomy, by Robert Grant, now Professor at 

 Glasgow, is stated to be written by A. Robert 

 Grant, who wrote on plane astronomy some years 

 before. Now the title-page of the history shows 

 that it was written by a R. G., but not by A. 

 R. G. But this is not all. Andrew Grant is the 

 name, real or assumed, of the person who com- 

 municated to the American newspapers the an- 

 nouncement that Sir J. Herschel had discovered 

 winged animals and other curiosities in the moon. 

 Accordingly, Sohnke makes a reference from 

 " Grant " to Herschel's discoveries in the moon. 

 He clearly supposes that A.R. Grant, to whom 

 he attributes the history, is Andrew Grant, who 

 invented the hoax, compared to whom my friend 

 Professor Grant is a mere compiler, as he would 

 cheerfully acknowledge. A. De Morgan. 



HERALDIC ENGRAVING. 

 (2" d S. ix. 110. 203. 333.) 



I have lately come across a German book (Ab- 

 riss der HeraMik, by Johann Christoph Gatterer, 

 Professor of History at Gbttingen. Gottingen and 

 Gotha, 1773, 8vo. pp. 115.) containing some in- 

 formation on this subject new to me, and possi- 



bly to the readers of " N. & Q." I have no leisure 

 at present for verifying the references, but send 

 vou a translation of the passage which occurs at 



A Frenchman, Mark Vulson de la Colombiere, 

 appropriates to himself the honour of this inven- 

 tion in a magniloquent strain in a work published 

 in 1639, and the late Professor Kohler (in his 

 Progi-amma de Auctoribus Incisurarum) has allowed 

 himself to be taken in, or rather misled, by him in 

 favour of his claims. Others make Silvester 

 Petra Santa, the Jesuit, the inventor. He did 

 unquestionably make use of the hatchings as an 

 indication of the tinctures before de la Colombiere, 

 viz. in his Tessera Gentilitia which appeared in 

 1638 ; but Colombiere maintains that he had 

 shown his invention to Petra Santa, so that the 

 honour of it still belonged to himself. 



Menestrier, again, is unwilling to recognise 

 either the one or the other as the inventor, but 

 ^considers rather it is uncertain who first in- 

 troduced the hatchings, he himself having ob- 

 served them to have been used prior to the year 

 1638. On this passage Kohler, with propriety, 

 objects to Menestrier, that he has not named the 

 particular books in which he observed the use of 

 hatchings before Petra Santa's time. But still I 

 think that Menestrier must have been acquainted 

 with such books. At all events I am so myself. I 

 will mention the oldest of them. It is James 

 Frankquart's Pompa Funebris Alberti Pii Aus- 

 trian (Brussels, 1623, fob). In this magnificent 

 work is to be found on the 47th plate a square 

 table, wherein the hatchings are indicated exactly 

 as I have copied them in fig. 16. [Gatterer refers 

 to a plate at the end of his book where " Franc- 

 quart's hatchings, 1623," are thus given 



Or is indicated by horizontal lines. 



Argent „ plain white. 



Gules „ vertical lines. 



Azure „ a dotted field. 



Sable „ diagonal lines from opposite 



corners of the shield in- 

 tersecting each other. 



Vert „ diagonal lines from sinister 



chief to dexter base. 



Purpure omitted.] 



The author, at p. 23. of the text, gives the fol- 

 lowing explanation of his table : — 



" Ut insignia Provinciarum in signis et equis, suis colo- 

 ribus depingi possint, observandum quadrum, juxta Cur- 

 rum (exequiarum) positmn. Excipe tamen, quorum hie fit 

 mentio. Vexilla enim qua} Cornette de eouleurs, le Guidon 

 et Estayidart de Couleurs vocantur, lias notas non habent, 

 ut majore cum decore colorari possint. Quare pingetur 

 pars superior, rubro, media, albo, etc." 



On comparison of Frankquart's hatchings with 

 those of Colombiere, id est, with those in use at 

 the present day [fig. 16.], it will appear that they 

 are not identical with them. This much, how- 



