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When Dr. Duport resigned the chair of 

 Greek professor, he recommended his 

 pupil, Mr. Burrow, for nis successor, who, 

 in his probation exercise, shewed himself 

 equal to the character that had been gi- 

 ven him by this gentleman; but being 

 suspected of favouring 1 Arminianism, he 

 was not preferred This disappointment 

 determined him to quit the college, and 

 visit foreign countries ; but his finances 

 were so low, that he was obliged to dis- 

 pose of his books, to enable him to exe- 

 cute that design, 



He left England in June, 1655, and vi- 

 sited France, Italy, Turkey, &c. At seve- 

 ral places, in the course of this tour, he 

 met with kindness and liberal assistance 

 from the English Ambassadors, &c. which 

 enabled him to benefit the more, by 

 protracting his stay and prolonging his 

 journey. He spent more than a year in 

 Turkey, and returned to England by way 

 of Venice, Germany, and Holland, in 

 1659. At Constantinople he read over the 

 works of St. Chrysostosn, whom he pre- 

 ferred to all the other fathers. 



On his return, Barrow was ordained by 

 Bishop Brownrig ; and in 1660, he was 

 chosen to the Greek professorship at 

 Cambridge. In July, 1662, he was elected 

 professor of geometry in Gre sham Col- 

 lege : in this station he not only dis- 

 charged his own duty, but supplied like- 

 wise the absence of Dr. Pope, the astro- 

 nomy professor. Among his lectures, 

 some were upon the projection of the 

 sphere and perspective, which are lost; 

 but his Latin oration, introductory to his 

 lectures, is still extant. About this time 

 Mr. Barrow was offered a good living; 

 but the condition annexed, of teaching 

 the patron's son, made him refuse it, as 

 thinking it too like a simoniacal contract. 

 Upon the 20th of May, 1663, he was elect- 

 ed a fellow of the Royal Society, in the 

 first choice made by the council after 

 their charter. The same year the exe- 

 cutors of Mr. Lucas having, according to 

 his appointment, founded a mathematical 

 lecture at Cambridge, they selected Mr. 

 Barrow for the first professor; and though 

 his two professorships were not incom- 

 patible with each other, he chose to re- 

 sign that of Gresham College, which he 

 did May the 20th, 1664. In 1669, he re- 

 signed the mathematical chair to his 

 learned friend Mr. Isaac Newton, being 

 now determined to quit the study of ma- 

 thematics for that of divinity. On quit- 

 ting his professorship, he had only his 

 fellowship of Trinity College, till his un- 

 cle gave him a small sinecure in Wales, 



and Dr. Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, 

 conferred upon him a prebend in his 

 church. In the year 1670 he was created" 

 doctor in divinity by mandate ; and, upon 

 the promotion of Dr. Pearson, master of 

 Trinity College, to the See of Chester, 

 he was appointed to succeed him by the 

 king's patent, bearing date the 13th of Feb. 



upon which occasion the king 

 was pleased to say, " he had given it to 

 the best scholar in England." In this, 

 his majesty did not speak from report, 

 but from his own knowledge ; the doctor 

 being then his chaplain, he used often to 

 converse with him, and, in his humorous 

 way, to call him an " unfair preacher,'* 

 because he exhausted every subject, and 

 left no room for others to come after him. 

 In 1675, he was chosen Vice-Chancellor 

 of the University ; and he omitted no en- 

 deavours for the good of that society, nor 

 in the line of his profession, as a divine, 

 for the promotion of piety and virtue ; 

 but bis useful labours were abruptly ter- 

 minated by a fever on the 4th of 'May, 

 1677, in the 47th year of his age. He 

 was interred in Westminster Abbey, 

 where a monument, adorned with his 

 bust, was soon after erected, by the con- 

 tribution of his friends. 



Dr. Barrow's works are very nume- 

 rous, and indeed various, mathematical, 

 theological, poetical, &c. and such as do 

 honour to the English nation. They are 

 principally as follow : 



1. Euchdis Elementa. Cantab. 1655, 

 in 8vo 



2. Euclidis data Cantab. 1657, in 8vo. 



3. Lectiones Opticae xviii. Lond. 1669, 

 4to. 



4. Lectiones Geometric^ xiii. Lond. 

 1670, 4to. 



5. Archimedis Opera, Apollonii Coni- 

 corum, libri iv. Theodosii Sphericorum, 

 lib. iii ; novo methodo illustrata, et suc- 

 cincte demonstrate. Lond. 1675, in 4to. 



BAIUIOW, in the salt-works, wicker 

 cases, almost in the shape of a sugar-loaf, 

 wherein the salt is put to drain. 



BARROW, also denotes a large hillock, 

 or mount of earth or stones, raised by the 

 ancients, as a sepulchral monument, more 

 especially over their illustrious dead. 

 These barrows were, by the Romans, 

 called tumuli, and are still to be seen in 

 great numbers in almost all parts of Bri- 

 tain, Ireland, and the British Isles, as 

 well as in several other countries. Some 

 of these barrows appear rude and without 

 order : others are more regular, and 

 trenched round : some are the sepulchral 

 monuments of ancient Britons : others of 



