1809.] 
second book, after the death of Mr. 
Briggs, and published them both. Mr. 
Sherburne, therefore, was mistaken in 
saying, “ This book was put fortheby Mr. 
Brigys.”* _ 
10. Two Letters to the learned James 
Usher. 
These are published in the collection 
of the learned Archbishop Ushev’s Let- 
ters, Number iv, and xvi. London, 1686, 
folio, 
11. Mathematica ab antiquis minus 
cognita, 
This is asummary account of the most 
observable inventions of modern mathe- 
maticians, communicated by Mr. Briggs, © 
to Dr. George Hakewell, and published 
by hii in several editions of his Apo- 
logie: London, folio. 
Besides the things above-mentioned, 
Mr. Briggs wrote some others, which have 
never been published. 
1, Commedutaries on the Geometry of 
Peter Rainus. 
Mr. Wood says, that after the author’s 
death, this Treatise came into the hands 
of Mr. John Greaves, from him to his 
brother Dr. Thomas Greaves, and then 
to Mr. Theodore Haak, a Fellow of the 
Royal Society, 
2. Due episiole ad celeberrimumvirum, 
Christianum Sever. Longomontanum. 
One of these letters contained some re- 
marks upon a treatise of Longomon- 
tanus, about squaring the circle, and the 
other a defence of Arithmetical Geo- 
* Appendix to Manilius. 
+ Athen. Oxon. v. i, c. 550, 
na eee 
Scarce Tracts, Ke. 
28 i 
metry. Both of them were in the pos 
session of Dr, Smith, who intended to 
publish them, but did not live to execute 
his desiyn, * 
‘These which follow, are in the hands 
of Mr. Jones. 
1. Animadversiones Geometrice, 4to. 
2. De eodem argumento, Ato. 
Both these treatises contain great vas 
riety of geometrical propositious cane 
cerning the properties of many figures, 
with several arithmetical computations, 
relating to the circle, angular sec- 
tions, &c, 
3 An English Treatise of Common 
Arithmetic, folio. ' 
In this are contained, not only the 
vulgar rules, but also the manner of ex- 
tracting the square and cube roots, with 
the rules of proportion, allegation, arith- 
metical, and geometrical progression. 
4. A Leiter to Mr, Clarke, of Graves« 
end, dated from Gresham College, Fe- 
bruary 25, 1606, with which he sends 
him the description of a ruler, called 
Bedweil’s ruler, with directions hew to 
draw it, ' 
This Mr. Bedwell was a clergyman, 
who had a living at Tottenham, and 
was one of the seven in that class af 
Westminster, who were appointed by 
King James I. to revise the English 
translation of the bible. f{ 
* See Usher’s Letters. 
+ Fuller's Church History of Brit, 1. x. 
page 45. 
t Vit. H. Brigii, p. 19, 
anaes 
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SCARCE TRACTS, WITH EXTRACTS, AND ANALYSES OF 
~* SCARCE BOOKS. | 
It is proposed in future to devote a few Pages of the Monthly Magazine to the 
Insertion of such Scarce 
Tracts as are of an interesting Nature, with the Use 
of which we may be fuvoured by our Correspondents; and under the same Head to 
entroduce also the Anulysis of scarce und curious Books, 
rer 
Micro-cosmographie: or a Peece of the 
World Discovered; in Essayes and 
Characters. The fifth edition; much 
enlarged. 16° Lond. 1629. 
TMHIS work, which has been often 
attributed to Edward Blount, was 
really written, according to Anthony ° 
_ Wood, by John Earle, afterwards Bishop 
of Salisbury, whose “ younger years were 
adorned with oratory, poetry, and witty 
fancies; and his elder years with quaint 
preaching, and subtle disputes,” _ 
Honest Isaac Walton, speaking of Mr. 
Hooker, and King James, says, “* Nor did 
his son, our late King Charles [. ever 
, mention him but with the same reverence, 
enjoining his son, our now gracious king, 
to be studious in Mr. Hookey’s books, 
And our learned antiquary, My. Camb- 
den, mentioning the death, the modesty, 
and other vertues, of Mr. Hogker, and 
magnifying his books, wish’t, that for the 
honour of this, and benefit of other na- 
tions, they were turn’d into the universal 
language, 
