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Paleontologist. A scholar specializing in the science that treats 

 of fossil plants and animals. Cf. p. 53. 



14. indulging in rhetoric. Using high-flown language. 

 malgr^ moi. In spite of myself. 



15. New Reformation. A new order of thought and education, 

 in which the sciences have had an increasingly important place. 



IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE 



17. Defoe, Daniel, 1661-1731. The famous English author, 

 whose most renowned work is Robinson Crusoe. 



18. Republicans . . . Papists, i.e., the Republicans were accused 

 by the loyalists and the Papists by the Puritans. 



19. Rochester, Earl of. An English poet and courtier in the 

 reign of Charles II. 



Sedley, Sir Charles. A wit, poet, and dramatist in the reign of 

 Charles II; a member of the king's party. 



Laud, William. Archbishop of Canterbury, born 1573, beheaded 

 1645 as a result of his unpopularity growing out of his persecution 

 of the Puritans. 



Milton, John, 1608-1674. This celebrated English poet was the 

 champion of the Puritan cause in its struggle with the Church of 

 England. 



insignificant corporation. The Royal Society, organized in 1645. 

 The account of its formation follows. 



20. Wallis, John, 1616-1703. An English mathematician, gram- 

 marian, etc. 



21. Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727. A famous English mathe- 

 matician and natural philosopher. The "Principia," or "Philo- 

 sophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" (The Mathematical 

 Principles of Natural Philosophy) is the foundation of modern 

 astronomy, mechanics, and mathematical physics. 



Galileo, 1564-1642. A famous Italian physicist and astronomer. 

 He was summoned before the Inquisition and required to recant his 

 so-called heretical teachings. 



Vesalius, Andreas, 15 14-1564. A noted Belgian anatomist. 



Harvey, William, 1578-1657. A celebrated English physician; 

 discoverer of the circulation of the blood. 



tree. " The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, 

 which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the 

 least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among 

 herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and 

 lodge in the branches thereof." — Matthew xiii, 31, 32. 



22. The Schoolmen. Men who taught in the mediaeval universi- 



