The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester / To which is added a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon.
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Engraved by J. Cochran. EDWARD SOMERSET, SECOND MARQUIS OF WORCESTER, Born about 1601. Died 3 rd. April, 1667 WITH MARGARET, HIS SECOND WIFE, WHO DIED 26 TH. JULY, 1681, AND THEIR ONLY DAUGHTER MARY, WHO DIED AN INFANT. Drawn by Henry Dircks, C.E. from the Original of Hanneman in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Beaufort
TO WHICH IS ADDED, A REPRINT OF HIS CENTURY OF INVENTIONS, 1663, with a Commentary thereon, BY HENRY DIRCKS, ESQ., CIVIL ENGINEER, ETC. ETC.
Inventas aut qui vitam excoluêre per artes. Quinque sui memores alios fecere merendo.
Virgil.
How few men of genius are there who have not been the victims of misfortune!
Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart.
LONDON: BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY. 1865.
THE MOST NOBLE
Henry Charles FitzRoy ,
DUKE OF BEAUFORT,
MARQUIS AND EARL OF WORCESTER,
Henry Dircks
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
INTRODUCTION.
ADDENDA.
APPENDIX A.
APPENDIX B.
APPENDIX C.
APPENDIX D.
APPENDIX E.
APPENDIX F.
APPENDIX G.
APPENDIX H.
APPENDIX I.
APPENDIX K.
CATALOGUE OF EARLY SCIENTIFIC WORKS,
CATALOGUE
INDEX
INDEX
ERRATA.
