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Brewster, Sir David. Life of Sir Isaac Newton. With portrait en- 

 graved by W. C. Edwards after Sir G. Kneller. 1831. i8mo. [368 



Revised by W. T. Lynn. 1875. [369 



Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac New- 

 ton. With portrait engraved by Robert C. Bell after Sir Godfrey 

 Kneller, and an engraving of the Newton Statue. 1855. 2 vols. 

 8vo. 2nd Edition. 1860. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo. [370 



A. De Morgan reviewed this work in the North British Review, 1855. See also under 

 Chasles. 



Brougham, Henry Lord. Deux discours, Tun sur la litterature popu- 

 laire, 1'autre sur le monument eleve a Sir Isaac Newton. Paris, 



1859- [371 



See also Nos. 53 and 397. 



[Brougham, Lord.] Life of Sir Isaac Newton, pp. 40. Library of 

 Useful Knowledge, 1829. 8vo. [372 



The Life is substantially a translation of that in Biographie Universelle, by M. Biot. 



Chasles, Michel. Articles contributed to Comptes Rendus, Vols. 65 

 to 69. 18679. [373 



A full account of the forger of these documents Vrain-Denis Lucas is given in J. A. 

 Farrer's Literary Forgeries (1907). In February, 1870, he was sentenced to two years' im- 

 prisonment and a fine of ^25. He had forged as many as 27,320 letters which he palmed 

 of, at a price to their dupe of nearly ^"6000. The following works were issued in connec- 

 tion with the subject, occasioned by M. Chasles's papers : 



Brewster, Sir D. Lecture to the British Association (12 Sept. 1867) 

 on the alleged correspondence between Pascal and Newton. 

 (British Association Report), 1867. [374 



Hirst y T. Archer. On the alleged correspondence between Newton 

 and Pascal recently communicated to the French Academy. 

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