[486] See Vol. I, page 106, note 4 {188}.
[487] Edward Bernard (1638-1696), although Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford, was chiefly interested in archeology.
[488] See Vol. I, page 107, note 1 {190}.
[489] See Vol. I, page 107, note 1 {190}.
[490] See Vol. I, page 135, note 3 {281}.
[491] Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), well known for the letters written to his son which were published posthumously (1774).
[492] Peter Daval (died in 1763), Vice-President of the Royal Society, and an astronomer of some ability.
[493] See Vol. I, page 376, note 1 {766}.
[494] William Oughtred (c. 1573-1660), a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and afterwards vicar of Aldbury, Surrey, wrote the best-known arithmetic and trigonometry of his time. His Arithmeticæ in Numero & Speciebus Institutio ... quasi Clavis Mathematicæ est (1631) went through many editions and appeared in English as The Key to the Mathematicks new forged and filed in 1647.
[495] See Vol. I, page 140, note 5 {294}.