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mate. The fatigue of his journey on his return threw 
him into a fever, which obliged him to Hop at Abbeville, 
where Jie died in 1653, at the age of fifty-three. 
Naude was a man of regular manners, of extenfive eru¬ 
dition and penetrating judgment, free in his opinions and 
language. One ,of the belt proofs of his freedom from 
common prejudices is given in his “ Apologie pour les 
grands Perfonages faufi'ement foupgonnes dc Magie,” 
162:5, izmo. often reprinted. This is a valuable per¬ 
formance, in which the charafters of feveral eminent men 
have been vindicated from the abfurd imputations thrown 
upon them by fuperftition and ignorance. It is to be 
wifiied, for his own reputation, that he had not regarded 
among prejudices, the indignation felt by all honefr men 
againft the execrable mafiacre of St. Bartholomew’s, which 
he direftly vindicates in his “ Confiderations Politiques 
fur les Coups d’Etat.” His political education at the 
court of Rome, and under Richelieu and Maz,arin, will 
account for his fentiments on this tranficlion, which he 
feems to have confidered as a coup d’etat againft a dan¬ 
gerous civil faction, rather than as an aft of religious 
bigotry. His other numerous publications, many of 
them fcarce and curious, are chiefly upon local or tem¬ 
porary topics. His thoughts, and anecdotes of his life, 
werecolleftedinthe Naudaana, printed in 1701, along with 
the Patiniana. 
NAUDE' (Philip), an able profeflbr of mathematics at 
Berlin, was born at Metz in Lorraine, in the year 1654. 
At the age of about twelve, he was taken into the fervice 
of the court of Eyfenach, in the capacity of page and at¬ 
tendant on the young princes. In this fituation his be¬ 
haviour fecured him the efteem of all who knew him; and, 
■while he continued here, he learned the German language, 
which afterwards proved of great ufe to him. When he 
had fpent about four years at Eyfenach, his father chofe 
to take him home ; but how he was employed during the 
next fifteen years of his-life we are not informed. We 
are only told that his father had neither the intention 
nor the means of affording him a learned education ; but 
that, notwithftanding the difadvantages. of his condition, 
having an unconquerable third for knowledge, he became 
his own mafter, and made confiderable proficiency in dif¬ 
ferent branches of learning, particularly in the mathema¬ 
tical fciences. As he was in principle a Proteftant, when 
the edift of Nantes was revoked in 1685, he left France 
with his wife and young child about nine months old, and 
refided about two years at Hanau. Hence he removed to 
Berlin, where he contrafted an intimacy with M. Langer- 
field, mathematician to the court, and tutor to the pages. 
This gentleman, who knew hdw converfant he was with 
the fciences, advifed him to open a mathematical fchool, 
and recommended pupils to him. In 1687, he received 
an appointment to teach arithmetic and the elements of 
the mathematics at the college of Joachim; and in 1690, 
he was made fecretary interpreter. Upon the death of 
M. Langerfield, Naude fucceeded him, in 1696, bSth in 
his employments at court, and the profefl’orfhip in the 
Academy of Sciences. In 1701 he was elefted a member 
of the Academy of Sciences ; and, in 1704, when the king 
founded the Academy of Princes, M. Naude was attach¬ 
ed to it by a fpecial patent, as profeflbr of mathematics. 
He died at Berlin in, 1729, at the age of feventy-five, 
highly refpefted for his integrity and general excellence 
of charafter. 
Though the mathematics chiefly occupied his atten¬ 
tion, he was not unacquainted with the other fciences; 
and, as he was zealous for the religion which he profefled, 
he had made divinity his particular ftudy, and written 
feveral treatifes on religious and moral fubjedls. In ma¬ 
thematics, his foie publication was “ Elements of Geo¬ 
metry,” 4to. written in German, and printed at Berlin 
for the ufe of the Academy of Princes ; and feme fmaller 
pieces, which appeared at different periods in the Mifcel- 
lanea Berolinenfia. Among his theological and moral 
produftions were, 1. Sacred Meditations, 1690, nmo. 2. 
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Evangelical Morality, 1699, 2 vols. nmo. 3. The Sove¬ 
reign Perfeftion of God in his Divine Attributes, and 
the perfeft Integrity of the Scriptures, in the Seme main¬ 
tained by the firft Reformers, 2 vois. nmo. 1708, writ¬ 
ten againft Mr. Bayle ; which, being attacked in a pam¬ 
phlet, he defended in, 4. A Colleftioaof Objeftions to the 
Treatife on the Sovereign Perfeftion of God, with An- 
fwers to the fame, 1709, nmo. 5. An Examination of 
two Treatifes of M. de la Placette, 1713, 2 vols. nmo. 6 . 
Dialogues in Solitude, partly tranflated from the Dutch 
of William Teclink, 1717, nmo. 7. A Refutation of 
the Philofophical Commentary, 1718, nmo. Gen. Biog. 
NAU'DERS, a town of the Tyrolefe: eight miies 
north of Glurentz. 
NAUDOW'ESIES. See Nawdowessies. 
NAVE, f. [nap, Sax.] The middle part of the wheel in 
which the axle moves.—In the wheels of waggons the 
hollows of the naves, by their fwift rotations on the ends 
of the axle-trees, produce a heat forhetirnes fo intenfe as 
to fet them on fire. Ray. 
Out, out, thou ftrumpet Fortune! all you gods 
In general fynod take away her power ; 
Break all the fpokes and fellies from her wheel, 
And bowl the round nave- down the hill of heav’n, 
As low as to the fiends. Shaltefpeare's Hamlet. 
[From nave, old Fr.] The middle part of the church, dif- 
tinft from the aijles, or wings.—It comprehends the nave 
or body of the church, together with the chancel. Ayliffe's 
Parergon. 
NAVE, a town of Africa, in Bondou. Lat. 14. 20. N. 
Ion. 10. 40. W. 
NAVE'ILS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Loire and Cher : three miles fouth-weft of Vendome. 
NA'VEL, f. [Saxon.] The point, in the middle of the 
belly, by which embryos communicate with the parent.— 
The ufe of the navel is to continue the infant unto the 
mother, and by the veffels thereof to convey its aliments. 
Brown. 
Imbrafides addreft 
His javeline at him, and fo ript his navill, that the wound. 
As endlefsly it fhut his eyes, fo open on the ground 
It powr’d his entrailes. Chapman. 
The navel-ftring: > 
Me from the womb the midwife mufe did take, 
She cut my navel. Cowley. 
The middle ; the interior part: 
Within the navel of this hideous wood, 
Immur’d in cyprefs fhades, a forcerer dwells. Milton. 
NA'VEL-GALL, f. Navel-gall is a bruife on the top of 
the chine of the back, behind the fiddle, right againft the 
navel, occafioned either by the fiddle being fplit behind, or 
the fluffing being wanting, or by the crupper-buckle fit¬ 
ting down in that place, or fome hard weight or knobs 
lying direftly behind the fiddle. 
NA'VEL-STRING, /'. The ligament by which an em¬ 
bryo communicates with the mother.—There is a fuper- 
intending Providence, that fome animals will hunt for the 
teat before they are quite gotten out of the fecundines, 
and parted from the navel-firing. Derliam. 
NA/VEL-TIMBERS, J\ The ribs of a fhip. Afh. 
NA'VEL-WORT, f. A plant. See Cotyledon and 
Cynoglossum. 
NA'VEL-WORT, Safe or Falfe. See Crassula. 
-- ; Venus’s. See Cynoglossum. 
--—, Water. See Hydrocotyle. 
NAU'EN, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle 
Mark, anciently called Fettport: eighteen miles weft of 
Berlin, and fourteen north of Potidam. Lat. 52. 36. N 
Ion. 12. 55. E. 
NAUENBUR'GIA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
fyngenefia, order polygamia fegregata. Generic Effential 
Charafter—• Calyx foliaceous 5 calycle two-leaved, one- 
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