[326] See Vol. II, page 151, note [268].
[327] George Barrett (1752-1821) worked from 1786 to 1811 on a set of life insurance and annuity tables. He invented a plan known as the "columnar method" for the construction of such tables, and as De Morgan states, this was published by Francis Baily, appearing in the appendix to his work on annuities, in the edition of 1813. Some of his tables were used in Babbage's Comparative View of the various Institutions for the Assurance of Lives (1826).
[328] See Vol. I, page 309, note 2 {670}.
[329] This was his Practical short and direct Method of Calculating the Logarithm of any given Number, and the Number corresponding to any given Logarithm (1849).
[330] This is William Neile (1637-1670), grandson of Richard Neile (not Neal), Archbishop of York. At the age of 19, in 1657, he gave the first rectification of the semicubical parabola. Although he communicated it to Brouncker, Wren, and others, it was not published until 1639, when it appeared in John Wallis's De Cycloide.
[331] I myself "was a considerable part."
[332] He also wrote A Glance at the Universe ("2d thousand" in 1862), and The Resurrection Body (1869).
[333] See Vol. I, page 63, note 1 {74}.
[334] As Swift gave it in his Poetry. A Rhapsody, it is as follows:
"So, naturalists observe, a flea