HAR 
in the year 1560, where he was educated ; aud at St. Mary’s 
hall he was es to the degree 0 of B. A. in the year: 
At this period he had acquired fo high a reputation 
mtd knowledge that he was appointed —- 
g 
to England he publithed “ A brief an 
new-found land of Virginia, of _ commodities 
and to be raifed,” &c. 4to work — ceowal in the 
year 1590, and about the fem i the r was intro- 
duced by fir Walter to acquaintance > of Hugh “sige 
earl of one gr who granted him a a pention 
300/. per an 
aneas a 
ee 
ron Pa table was kept for Mr. Harriot, and 
fome other mathematical friends with whom the earl pafied 
the ae rs —— nfin —— in literary and fcien tific con- 
n the Tower at the fame time, 
his ‘Sm Mr. Harri 
i He was the fubj €& of univer 
man he was bore by Hakluyt, 
" and by 
den, * icus infi ignis ;” he is poken of in terms . 
no lefsre{peét by fe great and eminent men of h 
pif Mr. Harriet ir 
of the prefent radon method of ne calculation. 
His improvements in algebra were adopted by Des Cartes, 
and for a confiderable time iaipalod on the French nation as’ 
a own, but the pi 0 made known 
itled “ Artis analytice praxis ad sR alge- 
methodo refo 
icas nova expéedita, generali Ivendas 
@ pofthumis Thome Harriot.’’ It appears from ungnef- 
tionable evidence that Harriot was as able an aftronomer, 
lebrated in the art. He was the fi 
alileo 
firft faw the fatellites ne Fa 38 he likewife made feveral 
Mars, the folitices, 
ets. 
to light by. Dr. Zach, an ledge of thee f of Saxe Go 
who in the year 1784, accefs to the MSS. left by: 
and which are in the poffeffion of the earl of 
ity Ant a: pet of the earl of Northumberland, 
§ patro 
eg iS) Waste, in Bing anes ~— at yo 
51 
lor of phyfic at Onfat Po Odo 1 oer 
. fome medical 
- of Rochefter cathedral.. 
HAR 
eftion of the celebrated Rpicohart, 
publifhed on the & 
orbis Acutis Infantum ;”’ it was 
and i is en atitled “«D 
college of phyficians, 1725. y 
Harnis, Jon, the firft compiler of a  Didionary of Arts 
and Sciences in this country, deferves particular notice in 
the Cyclopadia, though no memorial of him: has hitherto 
eee: in a publications. The inattention of his 
ont s has rendered it difficult to colleét any au- 
thentic information concerning him e have taken fome 
pains in our arches for this purpofe, a by> favour of 
the late Mr. Ifaac Reed, who was no lefs communicative to 
his friends than induftrious in acquiring every. kind of literary 
intelligence, and by the aid of fome other communications 
we have been enabled. to refcue and to preferve the fubject 
r. Harris was x heen ahout 
S 
reGtory of Barming, me he refigned fo D 
oles reet, London ; he had alfo the ce curac : 
near Sao in Kent, and he was pre 
He was a fellow, feeretary, - 
vice-prefident to the Royal Soci eac 
the courfe of Boyle's Lectures, 
Collection of Boyle’s LeCtures, 
425) 5 and in the next nee he took the d 
divinity, publifhed feveral ‘ingle 
via. a fermon on the Fait, ia with another on the Fatt, 
prerbe: 4to.;a n, intitled *«the Modeit Chriftian’s Duty 
sihilleront things in the worfhip of God,’” 17052 4to- + ; 
= on “The lawfulnefs and ufe of Public Faltings” 
Revi 4to.5 “The evil ne anickiekal of a fiery {pirit,”’ 4 afermon 
the rebellion in 3715» 
ber of Engravings ;”’ a 
Earth,” in 16973 a “ ‘ Treatife on Algebra,” ; 
“Tranflation of Pardie’s Geometry into fale. ee ith 
edition of which, in sae was printed in pats 5. + Aiftrond- 
: es,”” the third edition of which angen 
4795: but the work for which he was moit eminently dijtin- 
and which entitles him to- honourable notice, 
s “ Lexicon Technicum,’ > or * An 
ae Arts and Sciences,’ in.2 volumes: folio, publihed. on 
ome wo Cylepate at all, the cart Ht si 
as that have: fines a € 
followed, at soni department 
£ time, 
ing embraced _ the Roman Catholic ee in dhs be - all the improvements it has rec 
ted that diftingui reputation, We are rape 
Too wees 8 Penses te ctsactes Keedetee 1676, ee obliged to add, that though Dr. Harris was 4 nat!” 
commenced the practice of his profeffion ; and with a unqueftionable abilities and attainments, and of great. Itt 
view to evade the operdtion of the i that all Catholics. rary application, he was charg ith.cu ble imprudenc® 
' ld quit the metropolis, m 1678, when he found his pro- im his, condué , notwith : heen> 
ffional reputation increafing, he publicly his. joyed, he was in diftrefs. He died Sept. 7» 1777? 
puts profeifed the Proteitant faith. His praétice ing ithed the «¢ Hiftory of »” which was pe 
augmented; and on ak a of William III. lihed:in folio foon after his death, and which, though it had 
he was es appinted phyfician in-ordinary to that monarch. engaged: — mare or lefs, for eight years» is eX 
died in Mr. Gough pee Bi jie 
“Be pa work wis Dr. Raat. Hilti have. ay 
remely: inaccurate. 
pyre ipo) * Dr. Harris died an 
