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lands, in North Brabant. Population 1000. It stands on 
the left bank of the Maese; 15 miles north-east of Grave. 
VIERNHEIM, a village of Germany, in Hesse Darmstadt, 
principality of Starkenburg. Population 1900. 
V1ERRADEN, a town of Prussia, in Brandenburg; 26 
miles south-east of Prenzlow. 
V1ERSEN, a town of Prussian Westphalia, in Gelders. 
It has a Catholic and a Protestant church, and 4500 in¬ 
habitants. 
V1ERZON, a town of France, department of the Cher, 
situated in a pleasant country, at the influx of the small 
river Eure into the Cher; 22 miles north of Bourges. 
VIESBECK, a village of Prussian Westphalia, in the 
principality of Paderborn, with a strong and elegant castle. 
VIESTI, a sea-port of the Adriatic, in the east of the king¬ 
dom of Naples, in the province of the Capitanata. It con¬ 
tains 4700 inhabitants; 22 miles north-north-east of Man- 
fredonia. 
VIETA (Francis), a very eminent mathematician of the 
16th century, was born at Fontenai, in Poitou, in the year 
1540. Although he occupied the post of master of requests 
at Paris, and his time and attention were much engaged by 
the duties of his office, he was indefatigable in his applica¬ 
tion to mathematical studies; so that he is said to have re¬ 
mained in his apartment for three days without either eating 
or sleeping. In his writings he manifests great originality of 
genius, as well as invention. He made many improvements 
in algebra; and on other branches of the mathematics, be¬ 
sides those that may be denominated analytical, he bestowed 
much attention and labour; and whilst he collected and de¬ 
tailed what others had done before him, he enlarged the 
boundaries of science, and made some important and useful 
additions to the stock of knowledge which had been amassed 
by his predecessors. In this respect he was not a mere la¬ 
bourer, but original and ingenious in his communications. 
His treatise on “ Angular Sections” is a performance which 
enabled him to resolve a curious problem, proposed by 
Adrian Romanus to mathematicians, and which amounted 
to an equation of the 45th degree. Romanus was so im¬ 
pressed by his sagacity, that he travelled from Wirtemberg 
in Franconia, where he resided, as far as France, in order to 
visit Vieta, and cultivate friendship with him. His “ Apol¬ 
lonius Gallus,” or restoration of Apollonius’s tract on Tan- 
gencies, not to mention other pieces that may be found in 
his works, displays powers of invention, eminently adapted 
to the more sublime geometrical speculations. His tracts on 
trigonometry, plane and spherical, with the tables annexed 
to them, were important and valuable at the time they were 
published, and without doubt led the way to farther modern 
improvements. Vieta, notwithstanding the intenseness and 
assiduity of his application, passed his grand climacteric, and 
died at Paris in December, 1603. In 1646, Schooten gave 
an edition of all his works. Montucla. 
VIETRI, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra ; 2 miles 
north-north-east of Cangiano.—-2. Also a town of Naples, 
in Principato Citra. In 1694 it was destroyed by an earth¬ 
quake; 2 miles west of Salerno. 
VIEUSSENS (Raymond), was born at a village in Ro- 
vergne, and having commenced his education at Rhodez, he 
pursued the study of physic at Montpellier, where he gra¬ 
duated. In 1671 he was chosen physician to the hospital of 
St. Eloy. He died in 1726. His most valuable work is his 
“ Neurologia Universalis,” Lyons, 1685, folio. After his 
death appeared “ Histoire des Maladies internes,” 4to., con¬ 
taining many practical observations. JIaller. Eloy. 
VIEUX, a village of France, in the department of Calva¬ 
dos ; about 6 miles west of Caen. 
VIEUX MAISONS, a town of France, department of the 
Aisne, with 900 inhabitants; 12 miles south of Chateau 
Thierry. 
VIEUX MARCHE, a town of France, in Brittany, de¬ 
partment of the Cotes du Nord. Population 3500; 33 miles 
north-west of St. Brieux. 
To VIEW, v. a. [yen, Fr. from veoir, or coir.] To sur¬ 
vey ; to look on by way of examination. 
The Almighty Father bent down his eye, 
His own works and their works at once to view. Milton 
To see; to perceive by the eye. 
They here with eyes aghast 
View'd first their lamentable lot. Milton. 
VIEW, s. Prospect. 
You should tread a course 
Pretty, and full of view; yea, haply near 
The residence of Posthumus. 
Sight; power of beholding. 
I go, to take for ever from your view. 
Both the lov’d object, and the hated too. 
Intellectual sight; mental ken.—Som; safer resolution I’ve 
in view. Milton. —Act of seeing. 
Th’ unexpected sound 
Of dogs and men, his wakeful ear does wound; 
Rouz’d with the noise, he scarce believes his ear, 
Willing to think the illusions of his fear 
Had given this false alarm; but straight his view 
Confirms that more than all he fears is true. Denham. 
Sight; eye.—Objects near our view are thought greater 
than those of a larger size, that are more remote. Locke .— 
Survey; examination by the eye. 
Time never will renew', 
While we too far the pleasing path pursue, 
Surveying nature with too nice a view. Dry den 
Intellectual survey.—If the mind has made this inference 
by finding out the intermediate ideas, and taking a view of 
the connection of them, it has proceeded rationally. Locke. 
—Space that may be taken in by the eye; reach of sight. 
The fame through all the neighb’ring nations flew', 
When now the Trojan navy was in view. Dryden. 
Appearance; show. 
In that accomplish’d mind. 
Helpt by the night, new graces find; 
Which, by the splendour of her view, 
Dazzled before we never knew. Waller. 
Display ; exhibition to the sight or mind.—To give a right 
view of this mistaken part of liberty, would any one be a 
changeling, because he is less determined by wise considera¬ 
tions than a wiseman? Locke. —Prospect of interest.—No 
man sets himself about any thing, but upon some view, or 
other, which serves him for a reason. Locke. —Intention ; 
design.—He who sojourns in a foreign country, refers what 
he sees to the state of things at home; with that view he 
makes all his reflections. Atterlury. 
VIE'WER, s. One who views. 
You are as fair as if the morning bare ye; 
Imagination never made a sweeter: 
Can it be possible this frame should suffer, 
Aud, built on slight affections, fright the viewer? 
Beaum. and FI. 
VIE'WLESS, adj. Unseen; not discernible by the sight. 
To be imprison’d in the viewless winds. 
And blown with restless violence about 
The pendant world. Shakspeare. 
VIE'WLY, adj. Sightly ; striking to the view. Used in 
some parts o f the north. 
VIEYRA (Antony), a Portuguese writer, was bom at Lis¬ 
bon in 1608, and in early life accompanied his father to the 
Brazils. His genius at the age of fourteen began to display 
itself to a degree that excited the astonishment of his tutors. 
In 1623 he entered into the society of Jesus, and having 
carefully read the scriptures, the works of the fathers, and 
the Summa Aquinafas, he composed some tracts, and gave 
lectures in the college of Bahia. At this time he was tutor 
to the son of the viceroy of Brazil, the marquis of Montalvin ; 
and in 1641, accompanied him to Europe. At Lisbon he 
distinguished himself in the pulpit, and was appointed by 
John IV. preacher to the court. The king discovering also 
his talents for public affairs, deputed him, in 1646, on im¬ 
portant 
Shakspeare. 
Dryden. 
