THE 



LIFE, TIMES, 



AND 



SCIENTIFIC LABOURS 



OE THE SECOND 



MARQUIS OP WORCESTER. 



TO WHICH IS ADDED, A KEPIUNT OF HIS 



CENTURY OF INVENTIONS, 



1663, 



E 1ST :R Y Z) I R C K S, ESQ., 



CIYIL ENOINEEB, ETC. ETC. 



Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes. 

 Quinque sui memores alios fecere mcrendo. 



VIRGIL. 



How few men of genius are there who have not been the victims of 

 misfortune ! SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, BART. 



BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY. 

 1865. 



