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used his influence in his successor's favor. 

 Ward was renowned as a preacher; but his 

 later fame rested chiefly on his contributions to 

 the science of astronomy, and he is remem- 

 bered in the world of science mainly for his 

 theory of planetary motion. Ward and 

 Wallis but the burden of the attack was 

 borne by the latter laid bare Hobbes's at- 

 tempted proof of the squaring of the circle; 

 there was also a little controversy "on the 

 duplication of the cube," and mixed up with 

 these criticisms in the realm of pure reason 

 were political motives. Hobbes had not be- 

 gun to study Euclid until he was forty; and, 

 after Sir Henry Savile had founded his pro- 

 fessorships at Oxford, Wood says that not a 

 few of the foolish gentry "kept back their 

 sons" in order not "to have them smutted by 

 the black art" so great was the fear and the 

 ignorance of the powers of mathematics. 

 Ward was a pluralist, as was the manner of 

 the times, and Burnet tells us "he was a pro- 

 found statesman but a very indifferent clergy- 

 man." Yet, what money he got he lavishly 

 spent on ecclesiastical and other purposes. As 



