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of life. The lcarne.1 Mr, T. Gatnker, who attended his lee- 

 tare, at Cambrid^ve, reprefents h,m as highly efteemed 

 by all perfon. Hulled in l!ie mathematK-, both at home and 

 abroad^ Mr. O.ghlredealk him "The muTor of the aire for 

 eSent flc.!! in^eomct.y." Dr. Barrow h,s fucccnor a 

 GreOiam co!le(re, lu his inaugural ovation, celebrates h.s great 

 St es, flali: ar,d indnftry, in perfeamg Napier's remark- 

 bf invention" of logarithms ; which wuhout '"-are a^.d 

 pains might have remained an .mperfeit and ufehf. d hgn. 

 Lfides the works already enumerated, he wrote many others, 

 the chief of which are the following : I. » Tub es for the 

 Xro--ent of Navigation," publilhed ..t the 2d ed.t.on o 

 W-iirht's " Errors in Navigation deeded and correded, ^ 

 London, 1610, 4to. 2. " Euchdis Elementornm, vi. Ltbu 

 iriores &c." London, 1620, folio. 3- " Mathemattca 

 ab An iqnis minus cog.uta," communicated by the author to 

 Dr. George HakewUl, and publiihed m h.s ' Apolog.e," 

 London, fol.; and alio in the " Appendix to AVard s Lives 

 No o " t,. " Commentaries on the Geometry ot Ftter 

 Ram?;," re-pubhfted. 5- " D"« Epiftolx ad celeber- 

 rimum Virum, Chriftianum Longomontanum, re-publiihed, 

 andcontaining remarks on a treatife of Longomontant.s about 

 fquanncr the circle, and the other being a defeiice of anth- 

 ^eticaf geometry. 6 " Animadverhones C.e°-^ --■ 

 .to ?. " De eodem Argumento," ^Ko. Thefe t«o lall 

 treatifes contain a great variety of geometrical propofitions 

 concerning the properties of many figures, with f^veral arttl - 

 ^t.cal computations relating to the circle, angular fedion 

 &c 8 ■' An Enghfh Treatife of common Anthmet.ck 

 fol Q «' A Letter to Mr. Clark of Gravefend," dated 1606, 

 and containing a defcription of ^^edwell's ruler, and di|^- 

 tions for ufin|it. The four laft were m the poffeffion of M . 

 W Tone" father of the late fir William Jones. Ward's 

 Liies of the Profeffors of Grelham college, p. lio, &c. 

 Biocr. Brit. See Logarithms. i • 1 •, 



Briggs, William, was born at Nor>v.ch, which city 

 his father reprefented in parliament, about the year 1^.52. 

 At the age of 13 he was fent to Bennet college, in Cam- 

 C-id<re, and placed under the care of Dr., afterwards arch- 

 bilhop Tennifon. Having taken his degrees of bacheloi, 

 L mker of arts, in i68z, he was chofen fellow of the 

 coUea-e. He now quitted the univerlity, and went to Mont- 

 pellier, where he applied dihgently to the ftudy of medicine, 

 particilarly attending the kaures and demonllrations o 

 ^ieulTens, in anatomy. On his return from the continent 

 he puWidied, at Cambridge, " Ophthalmographia, five Oe- 

 uh, ejufque Partium Defcriptio Anatomiea cm acceffit nova 

 VifionisTTheoria," .2mo. 1576- The year following he took 

 his deeree of doftor in medicine ; and fixing m London, he 

 was made fellow of the College of Phyficiaus and of the 

 Royal Society. In 1682 his "Theory of Vihon was 

 p;,bli(hed in a feparate volume by Hooke. The year follow- 

 ing he fent to the Royal Society, a contuumt.on of h.s 

 Theory of Vifion, with anf./ers to fome objtft.ons that had 

 been made to it. This was printed in N^ 147 0/ tl^^ Pl"- 

 iofophical Tranfadions. The fame acquired by thefe work 

 brot^ght him into confiderable pradice, and he was foon 

 a ter made phyfician to St. Thomas's b-ofp.ta . On the 

 revolution he was appointed phyfician to king ^V.lllam, and 

 continued in <rreat favour and reputation to the time of his 

 death whch happened at Town Mailing, in Kent, bep- 

 Sbe'rS .704 Dr. Bi-iggsalfo fent to the Royal So- 

 c ety, " Exemplum Ccecitatis notturnx et Vifus duphcis 

 w ulh is printed iu N° 1 59 of their Tranfa&ipns. In ,685, 

 h publiihed a Latin verfiou of his Theory of V.fion with a re- 

 commendatory epillle from fir Ifaac Newton affixed to it. 

 S the preface he promlfes two other works or, the fubjed.v.z. 



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" De Uiu Pa.-tium Ocidi, et de Aff^aibus ejurdcm." Thr^e, 

 however, were never printed. Hallcr B.b. Ai:at. Gen. Biog. 



BRIGHT, Timothy, a phyfician of eminence ot the 

 ir)th century, united, as it was not unulual at that tune, the 

 clerical with the medical charaaev. He took h.s degree ot 

 doaor in medicine at Cambridge, and, as vve learn from 

 Wood, he was made reaor of Melhley, in \orkfliire, in 

 I en I. He appears by his writings to have had a good 

 fiiare of pradice, and to have been well vcrled in the doc- 

 trines of the early Greek write.-s. The work bv which he 

 is principally known is his " Treatife of Me ancholy, 

 containing the caufes thereof, and reafons of the Urange 

 efVas it worketh in our minds, with the phylical cure, and 

 fpiritual confolation for fuch as have thereto adjoined an 

 affl.aed confcience," inmo. 15S6, London He excules 

 his writing this treatife, contrary to his ufual cullom, in tlie 

 Enn-lifh language, from its being a p.-aaical work, and to 

 be read by perfons out of the pale of phyfic. It was alio 

 do,^e, he obferves, by the Greek and Roman writers. He 

 entertained, however, very lofty ideas of the dignity ot the 

 med.cal chnraaer. " No one," he fays, " fiiould touch fo 

 holy a thing that hath not palTed the whole duc.pl.ne ot 

 liberal fciences, and walhed himfelf pure and clean in the 

 waters of wifdome, and underftanding." The cure of me- 

 lancholy is to be attempted by bleeding, by purges and 

 vomits. The reafons for ufing thefe remedies are aihgncd. 

 He had before, viz. in I ';S,5, publifiied •' De Dyfcrafia Cor- 

 poris Humani," 8vo. London. He was alio author ot 

 " Hygieine, feu de Sanitate tuenda. Medicine Pars prima, 

 Svo I 588. " Therapeutica, hoc eft de Sanitate rellituenda, 

 Medicinx pars altera," Svo. 1589. They were reprinted 

 in I-IOS, in i6to. Haller Bib. Med. 



BRIGHTHELMSTON, or popularly Brighton, in 

 Geography, is a celebrated bathing place, market and fea-poit 

 town, on the Suffex coaft, England. Its name is faid to be de- 

 rived from Brighthelm, a Saxon bifiiop who l.ved here, or in 

 the vicinity. The town ftands moftly on an eminence, which 

 Hopes gently to the fouth-eaft, where is that beautiful verdant 

 walk called the Steyn, which is the general promenade of 

 the bathing vifitors. To the north and north-eaft, the town 

 is fiieltered by a range of hills, called the South Downs, 

 which, by breaking the current of cold wind Irom thof- 

 points, render the atmofphere of the town generally mild and 

 temperate. This, combining with a pleafant beach, and tue 

 frequent refidence of the Prince of Wales, have given murh. 

 celebrity to Brighton, and occafioned a confiderable refort 

 of company during the furamer months. This town is men- 

 tioned in the Domefday book, by the name of Briltlcmel- 

 tune ■ and Mr. Lee, in his hiftory of Lewes, &c. infers that 

 It was a place of fome note in the time of Anglo-Roman 

 dynafty, from the quantity of Roman corns, &c. that have 

 been found in its vicinity. The landed property of Brighton 

 is divided into three manors, and was at the conquelt poi- 

 feffed by William de Warren. About this period a clals oi 

 Flemings fettled here, and appear to have applied themielves 

 wholly to fiOiing. The town continued merely a fmall filh- 

 ino place till a very recent pciod. It was provided with a 

 market by charter obtained thi-ough the influence of John 

 de Warren, earl of SuiTcy, in 1,513 ; and in 1773, an aa 

 of parliament was obtained for a daily market. 1 he htuation 

 of the town on the coalt of the ifiand, oppofite France, has 

 fubicaed it to repeated attacks and much diftrefs in the time 

 of war with that nation. At the comn^encement of the 

 wanton and impolitic war proclaimed by Henry VIII. A D. 

 xo^ againft Lewis XII. of France, we find that Brighton 

 waslilundered Ly the enemy, who alfo wreaked their ven- 

 ecance by burning many of its houfcs. In confequence of 

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