2.8 d The ^atural Hiftory 
in though the latter is faid to have obtained the better, yet being 
hut diU inferior^ at parting fubmitted himfelf with the reft of the 
Bachelors to the Vean in this form, Vomine quid faciemus^ as it 
were begging puniftiment for their boldnefs in arguing ; to whom 
Scotu^ returning this anfwer, //e, ifr facitequidvultis. They forth- 
with brake open the Buttery and Kitchin doors^ taking all they 
could meet with, making merry with it all night: Which, 'tis 
faid, gave occafion to their obierving the fame diverfion to this 
very day, whenever the De^jw keeps the Bachelors at Difputations 
till twelve at night, which they now commonly call a Black 
night, 
193. RogertM S(viffet^ TiSh^ Smnjhead^ of the fame CoZ/e^^, was 
the firft Contriver of Art Calculator y in diffutation^ wherein 
fays the Learned Selden^ Multiflicatps particulu negativps isf traje^ 
6ii6pereffe^ isrnon ejfe^ 6^^/c«/o (which was Beans Peas^ ofm 
erat^ quoties erat dif^utandum ^ , But others who have confuked 
more of his Works thm 1 fuppofe Mr. S^ldenever did, rather think 
this Art Calculator), to be fome way he had to determine ihtfro- 
portions of matters capable of proportion or degrees^ fuch as ^^io;/, 
motion^ rea6iion^ intenfion^ remijfion^ isfc. whereof the Reader^ if he 
think it worth while, may further htisfit himfelf from his Print- 
ed Works ; fuch as his Introdu^orium in Calculationem^ his Calcu- 
lationes cum Qud^Ji. de Rea^ione, his Treatifes de intenfione isr remiffi- 
cne^ maxima is^ minimo ; to which add, M. Bajfani Politic Introdu- 
£iorium in C alculationes Smffet^ moft of which, if not all, are in 
MertonCollegeLihrzry, 
1 94. The fame Roger Smjfet found out many things in Mathe- 
maticks, which no body found before him, isf perpaucipoft eum jam 
Inventa comprehendere valuerunt, fays Pitfem of him ^. And the 
Honorable Robert Dudley of Chrift Church College Oxon (made Duh 
by the Emperor with the Title of Northumberland here in En- 
glandy whereof hefanfied himfelf wrongfully deprived) contri- 
ved m.any Engines and Mathematical Inflruments not known be- 
fore, now in the poffeffion of the Great Vuh ofTvfcany, to whole 
Ancesiors he applyed himfelf in his difcontent, by whom he was 
foccor'd and highly valued for his great Learnings and with whom 
his Children now remain to this day in Wealth and Honor ^ retain- 
* Vid Comment, ht Carmen Thalcucium, "job- Seldem^ before Hoptons Concordance of Years- * Vid. 
Picfci Relationes Hip:, de rebus Angl. prafertim de Scriptorihus in An. 1 350. ^ Hi/?, Antiquitates Vm- 
verfitatkOx.on.per Anthoniura a Wood, lib. 2.fag.2j-!^. 
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