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Arabic verfion having been brought from the eaft by the 
celebrated Golius, a tranfcript of which was thence taken 
by Bernard, and brought with him to Oxford, with intent 
to publifh it with a Latin t'ran'flation ; but he was obliged 
to drop that defign for want of encouragement. This 
however was afterwards carried into effect by Dr. Halley, 
in 1710, with the addition of the 8th book, which he fup- 
plied by his own ingenuity and indufhy. At "his return 
to Oxford, Bernard examined and collated the molt valu¬ 
able manuferipts in the Bodlein library. In 1669, the 
celebrated Chriftopher Wren, Savilian profefTor of aftro- 
nomy at Oxford, having been appointed furveyor-general 
of his majefiy’s works, and being much detained at Lon¬ 
don by this employment, obtained leave to name a deputy 
at Oxford, and pitched upon Mr. Bernard, which engag¬ 
ed the latter in a more particular application to the fiudy 
of adronomy. But in 1673 he was appointed to the pro- 
fefTorfhip,himfelf, which Wren was obliged to refign, as, 
by the flatutes of the founder, Sir Henry Saviile, the 
profelfors are not allowed to hold any other office either ec- 
clefiafiical or civil. About this time a fell erne was let on 
foot at Oxford, of collecting and publilhing the ancient 
mathematicians. Mr. Bernard, who had fir'll formed rite 
project, collected all the old books publifned on that fub- 
jeit fince the invention of printing, and all the manuferipts 
he could difeover in the Bodleian and Savilian libraries, 
which he arranged in order of time, and according to the 
matter they contained ; of this he drew up a lynopfis or 
view ; and as a fpecimen he publilhed a few ffieets of 
Euclid, containing the Greek text, and a Latin verfion, 
with Proculus’s .commentary in Greek and Latin, and 
learned fcholia and corollaries. The fynopfis i'tfelf was 
publilhed by Dr. Smith, and at the end of his life of Ber¬ 
nard,, under the title of Veterum Ma'hematicorum Gae- 
corum, Latinorum, et Arabum, Synopfi's. And at the 
end of it there is a catalogue of fome Greek writers, whofe 
works are fuppofed to be lufl in their own language, 
but are preserved in the Syriac or Arabic tranflations of 
them. Mr. Bernard undertook alfo an edition of the 
Parva Syntaxis Alexandrina ; in which, befides Euclid, 
are contained the fmall treatifes of Theodofius, Menelaus, 
Ariftarchus, and Hipficles ; but it never was publilhed. 
In 1676 he was fent to France, as tutor to the dukes of 
Grafton and Northumberland, fons to. Charles II. by the 
duchefs of Cleveland, who then lived with their mother 
at Paris : but the fimplicity of his manners not (biting 
the gaiety of the duchefs’s family, he returned about a year 
•after to Oxford, and purfued his ftudies; in which he 
made great proficiency, as appears by his many learned 
and critical works. In 1691, being prelented to the rec¬ 
tory of Brightvvell in Berkfliire, he quitted his profelfor- 
jhip at Oxford, in which he was fucceeded by David 
Gregory, profeffor of mathematics at Edinburgh. To¬ 
ward the latter end of iris life he was much afflicted with 
the (tone ; yet, notwithftanding his infirmities, he under¬ 
took a voyage to Holland, to attend the fale of Golius’s 
manuicripts, On his return to England, he fell into a 
languifhing confumption, which pot an end to his life the 
a2tli of January 1696, in the 58th year of his age. Be¬ 
tides the works before-mentioned, he compofed tables of 
the longitudes, latitudes, right afeenfions, &c. of the fix¬ 
ed If a r s : lie wrote Obfervations' on the Obliquity of the 
Ecliptic ; and other pieces inferted in the Pliilofyphical 
'Xiar, factions. He wrote alfo, 1. A Treatife of the An- 
Cient Weights and Mealures. 2. Chronologize Samaritans: 
hynopfis, in two tables. 3. Tefiimonies of the Ancients 
concerning the Greek Verfion of the Old Tefiament by 
the Seventy. And feveral other learned works. Befides 
a great number of valuable manuferipts left at his death. 
Bernard (James), profefTor of philofophy and mathe¬ 
matics, at Leyden, was born September the iff, 1658, at 
Elions in Dauphine. Having .ftudied at Geneva, he return¬ 
ed to France in 1679, and was cltofen miniffer of Venterol, 
a village in Dauphine ; but Tome time after lie was re¬ 
moved to tire church of Vinfobres in the fame province. 
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To avoid the perfecutions againft the Proteftants in Frances, 
he went into Holland, where he was appointed one of the 
penfionary minifters of Ganda. Fie here publilhed feveral 
political and hiftorical works ; and in 1699 he began the 
Nonvelles d'e la Republique des Lettres, which continued 
till December 1710. In 1705 he was chofen miniffer of 
the Walloon church at Leyden ; and about the fame time, 
M. de Voler, profeffor of philofophy and mathematics-at 
Leyden, having refigned, Mr. Bernard was appointed his 
fucceflof; upon which occaiion the univ'erfity alfo pre- 
fented him with the degrees of doflor of philofophy and 
mailer of arts. In 171,6 he publilhed a Supplement to 
Moreri’s DiAionary in 2 vols. folio. The fame year he re¬ 
lumed his Nonvelles de la Republique des Lettres; which 
he continued till his death, which happened the 27th of. 
April 1718, in the 60th year of his age. 
Bernard (Catherine), of the academy of the Ricov- 
rati of Padua, was born at Rouen, and died at Paris in 
1712. Her works were feveral times crowned by the 
French academy, and that of the jeux floraux. Two of 
her tragedies were reprefented at the French theatre, Bru¬ 
tus (in 1691) and Lodamia. It is thought fhe compofed 
fhe'fe pieces conjointly with Fontenelle, her friend and 
countryman. Of her are feveral other works in verle,. 
which are written with eafe and delicacy. Some dif- 
tinflion is fet upon her placet to Louis XIV. to afk -for 
the 200 crowns, the annual gratification given her by that 
prince; it is to feen in the Recueil de Vers choifis du Pere 
Bouhoiirs. Two romances are aferibed to her: The 
Count d’Amboife, in 121110. and Ines of Cordova, 121110, 
Some of the journulifts have attributed to mademoifelle 
Bernard the account of the ifle of Borneo, and others to 
Fontenelle. “ It may be doubled,” fays the abbe Trti- 
blet, “ whether it be hers ; and it is to be wiflied that it 
is not.” 
Bernard (of Thuringia), a fanatical vifionary, who 
announced at the latter end of the iotli century that tho 
end of the world was near at hand. He wore the habit- 
of a hermit, and lived an auflere life. He alarmed all 
minds ; and. an eclipfe of the fun happening at that time, 
many people hid themfelves among rocks and caves; the 
return ot light even did not calm their fears. It was r.e- 
cedary that Gerberge, wife of Lewis d’Out renter, fhouJcl 
engage the theologians to clear up this matter. Mod of 
them had fenfe enough to prove that the reign of Anti- 
clirift was yet many years difiant. The world lublified, 
and the reveries of the hermit Bernard w;ere no more re¬ 
garded. Some ignorant people have aferibed the dreams 
of this enthufiaft to St. Bernard abbe of Cit, 
Bernard, a celebrated painter of Bruifels, known, by. 
his hunting-pieces, in w hich he introduced portraits of his 
patron theempqror Charles V. and the principal lords of 
his court. There is friil of his painting at Antwerp a re- 
prefentation of tiie laft judgment; of which he made the 
ground colour gold, that the lufire of it might reprefent 
the glory of the heavens more naturally. He fiourifiied 
about the middle of the 16th century. 
Bernard (Peter Jofeph), fee ret "a ire-general des dra¬ 
gons, and librarian of the king’s cabinet at the chateau, de 
Choifi-le-roi, was the foil of a fculptor at Grenoble in 
Dauphine, and born in 1710. Being lent to the college 
of Jefuits at Lyons, .he made rapid progrefs under mailers 
who were demons of attaching him to their body; but 
the young fcholar, too fond of liberty and pleafnre," would 
not fubmit to that confinement. Being drawm to Paris by 
the wifh to make a figure by his talent for poetry, he was 
obliged to ait as clerk to a notary. The light pieces of po¬ 
etry he fent abroad at intervals, of which the prettied are 
the epiftle to Claudine, and the fong of the Role, relieved 
him from this dilagreeable employment. The marquis 
de t'c zay took him to Italy. Bernard was at the battles 
of Parma and Guaftalla; and, though a poet, behaved 
better than Horace. This was the crifis of his fortune. 
Prelented to the marechal de Coigni wdio commanded 
there, lie was lucky enough to pleale him, by hi.- wit and 
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