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Via di St. Mamolo, which serena sap a hieroglyphic; a 
nativity of Chrift, under the por Leoni palace : 
and four care leeon pieces and senate of exquifite tafte 
and urbanity, in the frieze of an upper apartment in the 
Academical Inftitute, which have been engraved. 
Notwithftanding the innate vigour, the genial facility, 
and independent ‘fryle of Nicolo Abate, he owes the perpe- 
tuity of his name, in a great meafure, to his technic coalition 
a rather than partner of his labours, pe he is 
called” Nicolo del Abate, becaufe Primaticcio was t of 
royes. He e went to France at his cal in 
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This magnificent cok ‘to the eternal difgrace of the bar- 
barian of an archite&t who gave, and the Goth of a minifter 
who liftened to the advice, was dilapidated and levelled with 
etched by Theodore van Fulde n; 
larger compofitions of the gallery have been engraved 
y G. Mantuano, as hony Garnier, ae Stephen de Laulne. 
uel? s Pilkingto 
ICOLO, Gam, in Mufic, a wind inftrument, blown 
with a reed, and ufed as a tenor : the baffoon, of which 
the hantbois is the treble. althe 
NI ons BAPrist in Biography, a ogo 
geographer of fome eminence, who died at Rome in the 
year 1670. He was well pala ne in thofe aeparencits of 
knowledge upon which the true principles of geography 
reft, and by his fuperior talents recommended himfelf to the 
notice of pope Alexander VII. His principal works are 
“¢ Hercules Siculus, five Studium Geographicum,” in two 
olumes ; “ Guida allo Studio Geographico ;’’ «La 
rica del G] gaa 3°? «6 be bis Defcriptio,”’ in ten 
arge maps; * the don or N of t 
efcriptio 
Church ;”? “* pase me of he Kingdom of Naples ;’’ 
a Map s and Charts, shia Notes tanec of the Hiftory 
of Aiea by Quintus Curtius,’’ and other works 
NICOLSBURG, in n Gearapy, a town of Moravia, i Me 
the circle of a ; 22 miles §. of Brunn. N. lat 4 
52'. E. long. 16° 33'. 
NICOLSON, WiLiiaM, in Biography, an Englith pre- 
‘late, diftinguifhed for his knowledge of the hiftory and an- 
tiquities of his country, was born about 1695, at Orton, in 
Cumberland, in which couaty his father was parifh reGor. 
He ftudied at Queen’s college, Oxford, and foon after 
quitting the univerfity, was fent by fir Jofeph bis sent 
fecretary of travel on the continent. From 
ecame 
firft part of his ‘ Englifh Hiftorical Library,” a work to 
which we have often coi and which was intended to give 
f lated to the fee of Londonderry. His 
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a brief view and character of moft of our national hiftorfans, 
whofe writings are extant either in print or MS. was 
and in that year he was promote 
ower: 
Nicolfon replied ta to it ina letter to Dr. White Kennet. 
a difpute sarees fomething he 
” e wa ed in 
was aoe to have faid i in relation to the celebrated fermon 
of Dr. Ho 
dley, then bifhop of Bangor, which occafioned 
the Besganan controverfy ; and in the cou f the dif- 
cuffion, bifhop Nicolfon - " White Kennet publicly 
and pofitively contradifted on ther, as t currence 
js crcumfance is thought to have occa- 
reland, being in 1718 tran{- 
enquiries in that 
country gave rife to his “ Irith Hiftorical Library,’’ printed 
at Dublin in 1724. e fhewed his attention to the interefts 
of his fee, by nee a building in the palace-garden for 
the prefervation of the reco oo and other manufcripts re. 
lating to it. In January 1726-7, he was tranflated to the 
archbithopric of Cafhell ; cae before he could take poffed- 
fion of it, _ died at Londonderry, in the February follow- 
ing. e was unqueftionab man of great learning, to 
whom the wold is much indebted, not only for his antiqua- 
rian refearches, but for his kno wledge i n the rect in 
neral. A lift of his publications, independ ently of This 
es oneal already noticed, is given in the Biog. Britan- 
between them 
fioned the bifhop’s noel to I 
NICOMEDES, an ancient geometrician, celebrated 
or having been the inventor . the curve named. - 
conchoid, which has been made to ferve equally for 
refolution of the two problems mee to the Zee arc of 
the cube, and the trifeGtion of an angle. It was much ufed 
by the ancients, in the conftruétion of folid problems. Sir 
Tfaac gh approved it for trife€ting angles, or finding 
two ortionals, and for conftruQing fome other 
folid probleme, as may be feen in his “* Arithmetica Univer- 
falis.”” is not certain at what period Nicomedes flourifh- 
century B, C4 wrote on saat iae ae which Nicomedes was 
then ei to be the inventor. See Con 
OMEDES, or MESOMEDES, a famous mufician, who 
lourithed about the year 145 of the Chriftian era, un- 
der the reign of Antoninus. He was the firft who d 
up a body of rules for performing on the lyre. The 
emperor, however, retrenched his falary as a mufician of the . 
court, telling him that it would be fhameful, and even cruel, . 
if thofe whofe labours were of no ufe to the flate, thould . 
partake of his benefits. ther fovereigns, in other. times 
Ns fel ae the art of mufic as very ufeful to humanity. . 
‘NICOMEDIA, in Ancient Geograply, a town of Afia 
Minor, in Bit ithynia, 0 n the Aftacene gulf. It had vos 
borne the appellation of Olbia, a Saudi nymph who h 
laid its foundation. Nicomedes, king of Bithyniaj sas ; 
wards enlarged and embellifhed it, and gave it his own name. - 
Paufanias fays that it was one of the moft confiderable towns 
of Bithynia. Hannibal made it a place of refuge, when he 
could find no ether afylum from the fury of the ee 
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