[133] Cæsar Baronius (1538-1607) was made a cardinal in 1595 and became librarian at the Vatican in 1597. The work referred to appeared at Rome in 1589.
[134] Mrs. Jameson's (1794-1860) works were very popular half a century ago, and still have some circulation among art lovers. The first edition of the work mentioned appeared in 1848.
[135] The barnyard cock.
[136] Shanks did nothing but computing. The title should, of course, read "to 607 Places of Decimals." He later carried the computation to 707 decimal places. (Proc. Roy. Society, XXI, p. 319.) He also prepared a table of prime numbers up to 60,000. (Proc. Roy. Society, XXII, p. 200.)
[137] See Vol. I, page 42, note 4 {24}.
[138] See Vol. I, page 64, note 1 {78}.
[139] See Vol. I, page 328, note 1 {704}.
[140] George Suffield published Synthetic Division in Arithmetic, to which reference is made, in 1863.
[141] John Robert Lunn wrote chiefly on Church matters, although he published a work on motion in 1859.
[142] Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron Fourier (1768-1830), sometime professor in the Military School at Paris, and later at the Ecole polytechnique. He is best known by his Théorie analytique de la chaleur (Paris, 1822), in which the Fourier series is used. The work here referred to is the Analyse des équations déterminées (Paris, 1831).