NIF 
mame in the diftri&t of Graaf Reynet. They have lately 
been deferted, on account of the number of —_ Hot- 
tentots we dwell clofe sae — 
NIEUWENTYT, Bern 
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eligion 
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refpeGied h 
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ficulties on the fubje& of the nee ‘of infinitefimals ; 
«* Analyfis Infmitorum, feu righ iad Ane ages < 
Polygonorum dedu&te, &c.;’’ “The proper Ufe o 
Contemplation of the Univerfe, for oe. Conviction ne 
Atheifts and eae picts ** This was publifhed in 4to., in 
the year 1715; which a French tranflation was pub- 
lifhed at Paris in e 5, entitled « L’Exiftence de cea dé- 
montrée sal les adda de la Nature ;” and one in Eng- 
Jith, in 3 v 
an eX- 
E720. 
NIEZABAD, NIAsABAD, 0 or ” Niele tefo vaia Priffan, in ii 
graphy, a town of Perfia, in the province of Schirva 
ith « i S. of Der. 
fae and chiefly vifited by the merchants of Shamakee, 
who fupplied the province of Schirvan with European com- 
the harbour are feveral wretched villages. 
NIF, a lg of Affatie Turkey, in Natolas 16 miles 
E. of Smyr 
NIFAN, 0 or ¢ Niza, a tewn of Arabia, in the province 
ef Oman; 8c miles S.W. of Ffaffek. 
N i. ar a town of rig on the Grain coaft. 
IFO, Agostino, in Biography, a celebrated philofo- 
pher and man of letters, was born either at Jopoli, in Ca- 
lubria, or Seffa, iw Terra di Lavoro. Hoang received 2 
NIG 
good ie aerial = aps his father’s houfe, | which had 
been mad 
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e em- 
ity of the {piritual {ubftance, 
and that there is only one foul and intelle& that animates all 
nature. This he maintained in atreatife ‘* De Intelle@u et 
Dezmonibus,”’ which brought on him a formidable attack 
from ae abettors of eftablithed opinions, under which he 
would, probably, have funk, had not Bara 
His re at 
is of learning. By 
was diaced S teach pilovophy on fome time in that city. 
About the soa ISTO eld a chair in the univerfity of 
Naples. 13 he was me to Rome eo X., who 
honoured bin with the title of count palatine, and, at the 
fame time, conferred upon him the privilege of ufing the 
name and arms of the Medici; he was, at one time, a pro~ 
feffor at Rome, in the college of ee and, at another, 
he occupied a chair at Bologna. In 1 he removed tor 
Pifa, where he was offered a falary of oe hundred gold 
agli The prince of Salerno drew him again to that city 
n 1525, in which, or at Seffa, he probably pafled the re~ 
ae of his days. The time of his death is uncertain,. 
fome writers fix itin 1537, but others adduce a dedication of 
his to Paul IIT. in +949, as a proof that he was living at 
that period. It is, however, generally — that he 
died in 1538. Nifo was. aman of mean and forbidding af- 
pect, but he was a very pleafant companion ; he lived chiefly 
among the great, and feems (which happens to but few lite- 
rary chara¢ters,) to have been in eafy circumftances, and he 
had a very valuable library. He wrote a great number of 
works relative to the peripatetic philofophy, aftronomy, and 
medicine ; rhetoric, ethics, politics, &c. Commentaries and 
tranffations of the works of Ariltotle and Averrhées com~ 
ofe the greater part of them. It is faid that he refuted the 
impoftures of aftrologer’s, and was the firft to deliver Eu- 
rope from the terrors of a nid which ee been predi&ted: 
or the a 1524. Rofcoe’s Life of Leo %. See alfo 
Bayle’s 
NIGA NISH, in Geography, a town or valley on ead 
E. coalt of the ifland of cape Breton. N. lat. 46° 40! 
W. long. 60° 5). 
NIGATA, a fea-port of Japan, on the N. coaft of the 
ifland of Niphon. . lat. 37° 30’. E. long. 1397 10'. 
VYIGDEH, or Nixpz, a town of Afiatic Turkey, im 
Caramania, furrounded with walls, and ot by a caftle 5 3 
44 miles S.E. of Akferai. N. lat. 38° 7. E.long. 35° 
NIGELLA, in Botany, from niger, black, in allufion 
to the colour of the feeds ; it being py ieeeats the 
pcraviov Of Diofcorides, fo ‘alle with the fame meaning. 
Linn. Gen. 276. see 370. Willd. Sp. ie Vv. 2. 1248- 
Mart. Mill. Dia. it. . Kew. V. 3. 326% 
Sm. Prod. Fi. Gree ee. has ¥. T. 373- Jui. oo Tourn 
ox 
t. F Lamarck Iluftr. t. 488. Gaertn. t. 918. & 
and order, sich Pentagyniae Nat. Ord. i ulti if ae 
Linn. Ranunculaceae, Jolt. 
Gen. 
