73S ■ GOT 
tages were difmifTed in fafety; and their grateful zeal 
at length fuhducd the obduracy of tlieir countrymen. 
Aft r a reign of fixty years, the throne of the weftern 
Gothic kings was filled by the exarchs of Ravenna, the 
rcj refentatives of the emperor of the Romans. 1 heir 
jurifdiclion v/as foon reduced to the limits of a narrow 
province : but Narl'es himfelf, the firfi: and mofi: potv- 
erful of the exarchs, adminiftered above fifteen years 
the jurifprudence of the kingdom of Italy. The Gothic 
empire being thus extinguifned in Italy, A.D. 554, the 
remnant of the Goths evacuated the country, or min¬ 
gled with the people. Thofe'who renounced the fia- 
very of the Romans, retired either to Gothland.or Ba¬ 
varia ; incorportited themfelves among their kindred 
Goths in Spain ; or, uniting in colonies, formed preda¬ 
tory fettlements in dirt'erent countries of Europe.—See 
the article Rome. 
Although this race of northern adventurers has been 
fligmatized with every epithet that can polTibly degrade 
the exalted charafter of man ; yet in their warfare they 
have frequently evinced greater humanity and virtue, 
■more elevated fentiments of morality and juftice, and a 
higher regard for the difcipline and prefervation ol the 
Chriftiau church, thdn almofi; any of thofe more civi¬ 
lized nations with whom they have contended. But a 
mofi: extraordinary and indifputable proof ot their zeal 
for the propagation of the gofpel, as well as of their 
tafte for the extenfion of the arts on a grand fcale, is 
the remains of their architefttire ; which, even at the 
commencement of the nineteenth century, in a furvey 
of our cathedrals and ancient callles, fail not to infpire 
the mind of the beholder with reverential and religious 
awe ; and with a high fenfe of the refources of that 
people, who polfeffed the information and the means by 
which fuch venerable and majefiic fabrics were called 
into exifience. See the article Gothic Architec¬ 
ture, vol. ii. p. 78-93. 
GOTHS, f. pi. Any nation deficient in general know¬ 
ledge.—What do you think of the late extraordinary 
event in Spain ? Could you have ever imagined, that 
thofe ignorant Gothi would have dared to banifli the Je- 
fuits ? Chfjlerjidd. 
GO-l'OU', a town of China, in the province of Se- 
tchuen: forty-eight miles north-wefi of Oumong. 
GOT'ZEL, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Bavaria : thirty-fix miles eafi of Ratifbon, and 
twelve north of Deckendorf. 
GOT'TELSBRUNN, a town of Germany, in the 
archduchy of Atiftria : three miles north of Brugg. 
GOT'TEN, part. pajf. of get. —Wildom cannot be 
gotten for gold. Job, xxviii.'i5.—Few of them, when 
tliey are gotten into an office, apply their thoughts to 
the execution of it. Temple. 
GOT'TERN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and country of Thuringia : four miles 
north-wefi of Langen Sal^a. * 
GOT'TESBERG, a town of Silefia, in the princi¬ 
pality of Schweidnitz. Near it is a mine of gold, and 
anotlter of coals; the former is not w orked. Great 
quantities of worfied dockings are knit in this town, 
which contairis two churches : nine miles fouth-fouth- 
weft of Freyburg, and twelvefouth-wefiof Schweidnitz. 
GOT'TI (Vincent Louis), a learned Italian cardinal, 
born at Bologna in 1664. At fixteen years of age he 
embraced the ecclefiafiical life, among the monks of 
the dominican order ; and when he had completed his 
philofophical courfe at Bologna, he was fent to fiiidy 
theology at Salamanca in Spain. Upon his return to 
Italy in 1688, he was appointed profellbr of philofophy 
in the univerfity of Bologna ; and recommended him¬ 
felf by his talents and virtues to the pods of prior and 
provincial of Itis order. In 1728 pope Benedidl XIII. 
raifed him to the dignity of the purple ; and three years 
afterwards ap})ointed him member of the congregation 
for examining bilhops. He died at Rome in 1742, in 
GOT 
the feventy-nintTi year of his age. He difplayed cenfi- 
derable erudition and abilities in difierent theological 
and controverfial works, which are much valued by the 
Catholics, particularly in Italy. The principal of them 
are, i. DeVera Chrijii Erxkfia, 1719, in 3 vols. intended 
to refute the writings of Janies Piceninus, a Swifs cal- 
vinifi minifier, in defence of the reformed churches. 
2. Ttieologia Scholajlico-dogmatica, juxta Mcntem divi Thoma 
Aquinatis, &c. in 6 vols. 4to. 3. Colloqma Thcologico-po- 
lemica, in tres Clajes diflributa, &c. 1727, 410. 4. De Eli- 
genda inter DiJJidentes Ckrijliancs Sententia, 1734, written in 
anltver to a piece with the fame title by the famous 
John le Clerc; and a very difi'ufc work in defence of 
the truth of the Chriftian religion againft atheifis, ido¬ 
laters, Mahometans, Jew's, &c. publifiied at Rome be¬ 
tween the years 1735 and 1740, in twelve volumes. 
GOTTIG'NIES (Giles-Francis), a Flemifii Jefuit, 
and able mathematician, born at Brufiels in 1630. He 
entered into the order in 1653, at Mechlin, whence he 
was fent to purfue his theological fiudies at Rome, 
where he fpent the refidue of his life, employed in 
teaching the mathematics, and writing different works 
in that fcience. He died in 1689, when about fifty-nine 
years of age. His works arc, i. AJlronomka Epijlohe duce \ 
altera &c. ad excel. Joan. Dominic. Cajfinum, Bonon. Arc/ii- 
gyrn. AJlron. altera excel. Cnjjini rcfponfwa, circa EclipJ'es in 
Jove, a Mediceh Planctis effcBa, 1665. 2. -Lettera di Eujia- 
chio Divini, con altra Letlcra del P. Egid. Francifeo de Got- 
tignies, interno alle machie nuevamente Scoperte nel Pianeta di 
Glove, 1666, 8vo. 3. Elementa Gernietria planre, 1669, 
i2mo. 4. Figurtx Cometaruni qui apparuervnt Annis 1664, 
1663, 1668, Tabulis yEri incifs exprejfee, cum brevijjmis Anno- 
tationibus. 5. Logijlica, Jive Scientia circa quaniliiet Ouanti- 
tatem demonjlraiiv'e difeurrendi, cui Matkematicum nullum Pro- 
blema infolubile, nullum Theorema indemonjirabile, 1674, 4to. 
6. Ariilimetica IritroduElio ad Logijlicam univerfee Matheji Jer- 
vienteni, 1676, 4to. 7. Idea Logijlee fpeculative & praclice 
declarata, 1677, 4to. 8. Epijlohe Matkematicce, 1678, 4to. 
9. Clavis Logijlica, 1679, 4to. 10. Logijlica Univerfalis^ 
Jive Mathejis Gottigniana, 1687, folio. 
GOT'TINGEN, or Goettingen, a city of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Lower Saxony, and principality 
of Calenberg, and principal town of a quarter, or dif- 
tri( 5 I, to which it gives name, fituated in an agreeable, 
fpacious, and fertile, valley, on a canal or branch of 
the river Leine, which pafies through, and divides it 
into the New Town and Marfch. It contains about one 
thoufand houfes and eight thoufand fouls ; the fireets 
are large and convenient, and paved on each fide. Here 
are five parilh churches, and one for Calvinifis. The 
Roman Catholics celebrate their fervice in a private 
manner. The principal ornament and advantage of 
Gottingenisitsuniverfity,founded in 1734, by Georgell, 
king of England, and confecrated on the 17th of Sep¬ 
tember 1737, which univerfity, by the inexprellible at¬ 
tention and care of its firfi curator, baron Munchaufen, 
has acquired a very difiinguifiied reputation. Belong¬ 
ing to it is a large fplendid church, with a peculiar 
paftor, and to it likewife belong a new and fiately (fruc- 
ture of fione, the ground-floor of which ferves as a hall 
for public letfures, and that above is the library, with 
a council chamber, and other apartments. This li¬ 
brary, to which confiderable additions are annually 
made, if confidered with regard to the number, good- 
nefs,'and value, of its books, is one of the mofi capital 
libraries in Europe. It is called the Bulowcan, having 
received its origin from a colleftion of about ten thou¬ 
fand volumes, bequeathed by the baron Billow for the 
public ufc, and by his heirs given to the univerfity. A 
royal fociety for the encouragement of fciences and li¬ 
terature, founded in 1731, and a royal German fociety, 
alfo form part of the univerfity. It has likewile a fine 
obfervatory, eredled on a tower on the rampart, with a 
phyfic garden, and near it a handfome anatomical thea¬ 
tre of ingenious conftruiSion, a fcliool for teaching par¬ 
turition. 
