FOOTNOTES
[1] 2 Chron. xxvi. 15.
[2] M. Folard.
[3] The chief exception that occurs to this general remark, is the rapid progress which in that age Copernicus made in astronomy; who was not indeed an Italian, but was supposed to have profited by his early travels into Italy, which he enlightened afterwards by his admirable discoveries.
[4] See Montucla, Hist. des Mathem. vol. I. p. 623.
[5] Those were La Nuova Scientia, and Quesiti ed Inventioni diverse.
[6] Published at London, A. 1588.
[7] He was born in the year 1564; but few if any of his works were published till after the year 1600, and his dialogues on motion not before 1638.
[8] See his 4th Dialogue on Motion.
[9] See Hist. de l’Academ. Roy. des Sciences, A. 1707.
[10] In the year 1683, see Hist. de l’Acad. R. des Sci. A. 1707.
[11] Hist. de l’Acad. R. des Sc. A. 1707, under the article Mechanique.
[12] Viz. in 1674.
[13] See his treatise To hit a Mark, published in 1690.
[14] Philos. Trans. No. 179, p. 20.
[15] In the year 1687.
[16] Newton, Princip. Mathem. lib. ii. sect. 7.
[17] Eloge de Newton.
[18] Discours de la Cause de la Pesanteur. Leide, 1690.
[19] Mem. de l’Acad. R. des Sc. A. 1716.
[20] Dan. Bernoulli, Comment. Acad. Petropol. T. 2. & 3.
[21] It is also much to the honour of Mr. Robins, that his writings on this subject have been translated into foreign languages by men that were the best judges of their merit. I need only name MM. Euler, and le Roy.