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difcover him by the fcent> and when they fail, the monks 

 engage in the lahorious office. They range upon the fnow, 

 and found it with long poles: and they have thus refcued 

 many from imminent danger of being loft. Nouv. Did. Hift. 

 Sauflure Voy. des Alpes, vol. ii. Whitaker on the Courfe of 

 Hannibal over the Alps, &c. 1794. See Bernari>, in 

 Geography. 



Bernard, Andrew, a Latin fcholar, andfuccefUvely poet- 

 laureat to Henry VII. and Henry VIII., was a native of 

 Thouloufe, and an A'.iguftin monk. He was nnt only the 

 king's poet-laureat, as it is fuppofed, but his hi!loriogi-apher, 

 and preceptor in gramrriar to prince Arthur. He obtained 

 many ecclcfiaftical prefermcnf: in England. The pieces 

 vhich he wrote under the chavafter oF Doet43uieat, are in 

 Latin. Thefe are " An Addref:, to Henrj-Vill. for the 

 moft aiifpicious beginning of th.e loth year of his reign," 

 with an " Epithalamiutn 011 the marriage of Francis, the 

 dauphin of France, with the king's daughter ;" "Anew 

 year's gift," for the year 1515; and '' Venes," viiihincr 

 profperity to liis majcfty's ijtii year. He has left fome 

 Latin hynir.s ; and many of hisprofe pieces in Latin, written 

 as hiftoriogapher to both monarchs, are extaut. Warton's 

 Htft. Eng. Poetry, vol. ii. p. rjz. 



Bernard, Edward, a learned Englidiaftronomerand lin- 

 guift, was born at Perry St. Paul, near Towcefter, in North- 

 amptonlhire, in 1638, and educated at Merchant-Taylors' 

 fchool in London, whence he was removed, in 1655, to 

 St. John's college in Oxford. Here he applied himftlf with 

 the utmoft diligence to the Ibidy of hiftory, philology, and 

 philofophy ; and acquired an accurate knowledge, not only 

 of the Greek and Latin languages, but of Hebrew, Syriac, 

 Arabic, and Coptic : he alfo direfted his attention to the 

 mathematics, which he ftudied under the ceLbratcd Dr. 

 Wallis. Having taken feveral academical degrees at Oxford, 

 and engaged the efteem of all who knew him, by his diftin- 

 guithed talents and learning, and no Itfs amiable temper, he 

 removed in 1668 to Leyden, with a view of examining feveral 

 oriental MSS., and particularly the Arabic verfion of the 

 three loft Greek books of Apollonius Pergsus's conic fec- 

 tions, brought from the eaft by James Golius. Thefe books 

 he tranfcribed, with an intention of publiftiing them at Ox- 

 ford, but his defign was never executed. Upon his return 

 to Oxford, he refumed his ftudies with frefti vigour, and by 

 his collation of the moft valuable MSS. in the Bodleian 

 librar)', the refult of which he was always ready to commu- 

 nicate, he was engaged in a very extenfive correfpondence 

 with learned men of moft countries. About the year 1669, he 

 was recommended by the famous Dr. (afterwards fir Chrifto- 

 pher) Wren, Savilian profeflor of aftronomy at Oxford, to 

 be his deputy, and he luccceded this eminent profeflor. on his 

 refignation in 1673. He had been previoufly inducted to 

 the reftory of Cheame in Sarr^', and appointed chaplain to 

 Dr. Mews, bilhop of Bath and Wells. A fcheme having 

 been propofed in the univerfitv of Oxford, which was chiefly 

 promoted and encouraged by bilhop Fell, for collefting and 

 publi(hing all the ancient mathematicians, Bernard, who firll 

 formed the projeft, affiduoufly engaged in accomphfliing it, 

 by colleding all the old books and MSS. in the public hbra- 

 ries, and drawing up a fynopfis of their contents. He alfo 

 printed, at his own expence, as a fpecimen ot this nobie de- 

 fign, a few fheets of Euclid in foho, contaming the Greek 

 text and a Latin verfion, with Proclus's commentary in Greek 

 and Latin, and learned Icholia and corcllarits. With, a view 

 of promoting the ftudy of allronomy, he aifo undertook an 

 edition of the " Parva Syntaxis Alexandnua," or " MiJt^o,- 

 A-=GyofiO;-," of which there is an account in the " Veterum 

 Mathematicorum .Synopfis," and in which, befides Euclid, 

 are contained the fmall treatifes of Theodulius, Autolycus, 



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Menelaus, Arillavchus and Hypficles ; but this was ncvfi- 

 publi(hcd. In 1676, he was fent to France by king Charles II. 

 as tutor to his two natural fons, by the dnchcfs of Cleveland ; 

 but his dilpofition and habits not being adapted to this fitua- 

 tion, he returned, after a year's abfence, to his ftudioos retire- 

 ment at Oxford. During his ftay at Paris, however, lie cul- 

 tivated an acquaintance with feveral learned perfon;, collated 

 various ancient and valuable MSS., and bought many fcarce 

 and curious books for his own library. At Oxford lie pur- 

 fiied his ftudies with renewed alacrity'; and befides mathema- 

 tics, to which he applied according to thedutyof his profefibr- 

 ftiip, he devoted himfelf from inclination to the profecution 

 of hiftoiy, chronology, and antiquiries. At this time he un- 

 dtrtook a new edition of Jofephus, which he never completed. 

 In 1683, he vifited Holland, for the purpoie of attending the 

 fa'e of Nicholas Heinfius's library, where hepurchafed many 

 valuable books ; and on this occafion he renewed, or con- 

 tracted an acquaintance with feveral perfons of eminent learn- 

 ing. As he experienced many civilities from the Dutch, 

 and found that in Holland he .Qiould enjoy favourable oppor- 

 tunities for making great improvement in oriental leaniing, 

 he feemed much inclined to fettle at Leyden; but difap- 

 po:nted in his expeftation of being chofen proiefTor of the 

 oriental tongues in that univcrfity, he returned to Oxford. 

 In 1684, he took his degree of doftor in divinity ; and in 

 1 69 1, he u-as prefented to the rich rectory of BrightwcU in 

 Berklhire, which being at the diftance of about 9 miles from 

 Oxford, allowed of his occafional refidence in this city. 

 Soon after he rciigned his profeftorlhip of aftrononiy, which 

 had been for fome time irkfome and unpleafant to him, in 

 favour of Dr. David Gregory, profcfTor of mathematics at 

 Edinburgh. Ih 1692, he fuperintendtd the preparation of 

 a catalogue of the ^ISS. in the libraries of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, and in fome foreign libraries ; and in the following 

 year he married an agreeable lady in the bloom of youth, with 

 whom he lived very happily. In 1696, he attended the fale 

 of Gohiis's MSS. in Holland ; and not long after his return 

 fell into a conllitutional dechne, of which he died in January 

 1697; and he was interred in St. Jolin's college chapel. 

 His widow ereded a monument of white marble, in the middle 

 of which there is carved the figure of a " heart," ciicum- 

 fcribed, according to his own direftion, by thefe words ; 

 " Habemus Cor Bernardi." The publications of Dr. Ber- 

 nard, were fome aftronomical papers in the Philofophical 

 Tranfadtions, N' 158. p. 567. N° 163. p. 72 t. and N" 164. 

 p. 747 ; •' A Treatife on the ancient weights and mea- 

 furcs," firft printed at the end of Dr. Pococke's Commentary 

 on Hofea, and afterwards reprinted in Latin, with great ad- 

 ditions and alterations, Oxon. 16^8, yvo. ; " Priv.ite Devo- 

 tions, &c." Oxford, 1689, 1 2mo. " Oibis eru.*'iti literatura, 

 a characlere Samaritico deduda," in a large Iheet of engrav- 

 ing, exhibiting at one view the alphabets of many nations, 

 together with the abbreviations ufcd by the Grtcks, phy- 

 licians, mathematicians, and chemifts ; " Etymologi(.um 

 Britannicum," Oxon. 1689, printed at the end of Dr. 

 Hickes's Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica, &c. ; " ChronologiE 

 SamaritansE Synoplis," publilhed in the " Ada Eruditorum 

 Lipfienfia," April, 1691. Ke was alfo the author of fome 

 notes and commentaries, printed in editions cf learned works. 

 He likewife aflilled feveral learned perfons in their editions 

 of books, and collated MSS. for them. Among his papers 

 were found many MSS. of his own cotnpofition, with very 

 large coUedions ; which, together with feveral of his books, 

 v/ere purchafed by the curators of the Bodleian librar)". The 

 reft of hib books were fold by audion. Of his great anJ ex- 

 tenfive learning, his works are a lufficieut evidence. L'r. 

 Smith, his biographer, reprefents him as a man of a ir.cck, 

 mild, and conciliating dilpofition, averfe from contelts of 

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