[663] The first edition appeared in 1830, also at London.
[664] See note [441], page [196].
[665] Thomas Kerigan wrote The Young Navigator's Guide to the siderial and planetary parts of Nautical Astronomy (London, 1821, second edition 1828), a work on eclipses (London, 1844), and the work on tides (London, 1847) to which De Morgan refers.
[666] Jean Sylvain Bailly, who was guillotined. See note [365], page [166].
[667] See note [670], page [309].
[668] Laurent seems to have had faint glimpses of the modern theory of matter. He is, however, unknown.
[669] See note [133], page [87].
[670] Francis Baily (1774-1844) was a London stockbroker. His interest in science in general and in astronomy in particular led to his membership in the Royal Society and to his presidency of the Astronomical Society. He wrote on interest and annuities (1808), but his chief works were on astronomy.
[671] If the story is correctly told Baily must have enjoyed his statement that Gauss was "the oldest mathematician now living." As a matter of fact he was then only 58, three years the junior of Baily himself. Gauss was born in 1777 and died in 1855, and Baily was quite right in saying that he was "generally thought to be the greatest" mathematician then living.
[672] Margaret Cooke, who married Flamsteed in 1692.