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dfp-eeof doi5lor, he extendi d his cxcurfions, tfavelling over travelled for Iiis improvement into Italy, GermanT, Poland 

 the greattft part of England and Scotland. He afterwards and the Levant, he formed an cxtciifivc acqnainiance with 

 vifited the coiitnient, with the fame view. On his return, men of Utters, and maintained a corrcfpondcnce with the 

 he was made reftor of Blaxhall in Suffolk., through the in- moll diftiiigui(hed perfons ol' his time. Although he liad beert 

 terert, probably, of his family, and praclifed medicine there, educated a protellant, he changed his prof flion at the age 

 On the acceflion of queen Mary, he removrd to Durham, of a; years, and became a catholic priefl. His life was 

 thin!cin(r it more fafe, bein^r a protellant, to live at that dif- prolonged to his Sgth year ; and having retired to the abbey 

 tance from the court. He lived here in great intimacy of St. Viclor at Paris in 1689, he died there November thtf 

 with fir Thomas Hilton, governor of Tinmouth fort, and 25th, 1694. Befidts his pieces concerning ecclefiallicaf 

 became a fliarcr, or joint proprietor of the fait pans. Sir rights, which excited attention, and the hillory of Dtjcas, 

 Thomas dying imder his care of a putrid fever, he fell into printed at the Louvre, in l'''49, in the origmal Greek, 

 fuch difgrace, that he found it neced'ary to remove from witli a Latin vcrfion and notes, he was the author of fcvc- 

 Durham, and Mary being dead, he came to London ; but ral other works, chiefly mathematical and philofophical. 

 the vengeance of the family purfuing him, he was taken up, His " Treatife on the Nature of Light," was publilhcd irt 

 arraigned, and tried for the murder of his friend; and 1638; and his work entitled, " Philolaus, five de vero Syf. 

 though he calily cleared himfelf from the imputation of thi? temate Mundi," or true fyrtem of the woild, according ta 

 crime, he was continued in prifon, at the fuit of the profe- Philolaus, was printed at Amllerdam in 1638, and re-pub- 

 cutor, the brother of fir Thomas, for a debt due to the liflied in 1645, under the title of " Allronomia Philolaica •" 

 family. While in prifon, he tells us, he wrote the greater grounded upon the hypothefis of the earth's motion, and 

 part of his medical works. Having at length difeharged the elliptical orbit defenbed by the planet, illullrated with' 

 his debt, he returned to London, was made a member of the various methods of dcmonflration. To this work were 

 College of Phyficians, and acquired confiderable reputation added his " Tabula; Philolaicx," much approved and re- 

 fer his flcill in the prailice of medicine, which he enjoyed commended by Riccioli, who ilyles the author " Aftro- 

 to the time of his death, January 7, Jj;76. Hii redlory he nomus profunda? indaginis." Upon examining the hypo- 

 gave up, at the time of his quitting Blaxhall. He was an thefis, or approximntion of bifliop Ward, he found that it 

 anceftor. Granger favs, of the late Dr. Stukely. There did not agree with the planet Mars ; and in his defence of 

 are two portraits of him, both cut iir wood ; the one a the Philolaic allronomy againft the bidiop, he Hiewcd that 

 profile, with a long beard, publiflicd with his Government from four obfcrvations of Tycho on the planet Mars, this 

 of Health, an oClavo volume, 1.348; the other a whole planet in the firft and third quarters of the mean anomaly 

 length, to his " BuUcin's BuKvark of Defence againll all was more forward than it ought to have been upon Ward's 

 Sicknefs, Soarnefs and Wounds that do dayly afTault Man- hypt^thefis ; but that in the ftcond and fourth quadrants of 

 kinde ;" fol. 156^. His laft work is entitled, " A Dia- the fame, the planet was not fo far advanced as that hypo- 

 logue, both pleafante and pietifull ; wherein is a goodlie thefis required. He therefore undertook the correftion of 

 Regiment againft the Fever Pellilence ; with a Confolation, the bifliop's hypothefis, and made it more conformable tO' 

 and Comfort againil Dtath ;" 8vo. 1564. In this work, the orbits of the planets, which were moft eccentric, and 

 not more than a feventh part of which. Dr. Aikin fays, is introduced what Street has called in his " Caroline Tables " 

 on the fubjeft of medicine, the author appears as a perlon the " Variation :" for thefe tables were calculated by means 

 of much humour, and fmcy. Haller mentions a work by of the corrcftion of Buliialdus, and were thus more accu- 

 Richaid Bulleyn, who was alfo, like our author, both a rate than any which had preceded them. Dr. Gregory 

 divine and a phyfician ;" De Nephritide, cjufque Remediis," efteenis this corrcdion a very happy one, confidered as a 

 which was publiflied in 1562. Thefe works, which are correction of an approximation to the true fyftcm ; for we 

 now only fought for by collecftors, as fpecmiens of the en- are thus enabled to deduce the coequate, or true anomaly 

 graving, and printing of the time, palled through feveral a priori :xnd dhx&ly from the mean, in a manner very Well 

 editions, and doubtleis contributed in railing the reputation correlpording to the obfervations ; which no one, fays Mer- 

 of the writer. This (hews the little progi-efs our ancellors cator, had efl'edled before. Bnllialdus, while he makes 

 had then made in civilization and knowledge, as our author every planet move in an ellipfe, luppofes it to be fuch a one' 

 was no better informed than to imagine, that beads made of as if cut out of a cone, would have the axis of the cone 

 ebony might be fuccefsfully worn as a charm againil certain pafs through one of its foci, or that next the aphelion. See 

 difeaies, and " that witchcraft was more hurtful in the Gregory's Allron. lib. iii. prop. 7. 



realm than either quartan, pox, or pellilence ;" lamenting, In 1644 Bullialdus publiflied a tranfiation of " Theo, the 



" that damnable witches fliould be fufl'ered to live unpu- Platonill of Smyri.a," with notes ; and in 1657 his tre-atife 

 niflied, while fomany blefTed men (proteflants) were burned." " De Lineis Spiialibus, Exere. Geom. et Aflron. ;" Paris, 

 But thefe prejudices continued more than a century after 4to. In 1663 he publiflied a treatife of " Ptolemy de' 

 his time ; for in Charles the Second's reign we find doftor judicandi Facultate ;" and in 16S2 appeared at Paris, in 

 Chamberlain, then in high repute as an accoucheur, fane- folio, his large work, entitled " Opus Novum ad Arithme- 

 tioning the folly of putting necklaces on children to facili- ticani Infiuitorum," being a dilTul'e amplification of Dr. 

 tate dentition, and writing a treatife, to fhew the manner Wallis's Arithmetic of Infinites. Upon being cnnfulted by 

 in which the beads effefted this purpofe. Aikin's Biogra- M. Thoinard concerning the appearance of the moon in the 

 phical Memoirs of Medicine, &c. month of March, and 33d year of the chriflian Cra, he made 



BULLIALDUS, or Boulliau, Ismael, a celebrated the requifite calculations, and replied, that it could not have 

 aftrcnomer and fcholar, was born of proteltant parents at been feen in Judosa till the 19th of that month, and that it 

 Houdun in France, September the 2Sth, 160^; and having was probable that Jefus Clirill was crucified on the 3d of 

 finifhed his fludies in philofophy at Paris, and in civil law April of the fame year. Bullialdus alfo publilhed two 

 at Poitiers, he apphed to mathematics, theology, facred admonitions or notices to aftronomers ; the _/?r//, concerning 

 and profane hiftory, and civil law, with fuch affiduity, that a new ftar in the neck of the whale, fometimes appearing, 

 he became eminent in each of thefe departments, and ac- and fometimes difappearing ; and the fecond., concernip'^ a 

 quired the reputation of an uiiiverfal genius. As he had nebula in the northern part of Andromeda's girdle, which 



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