Noorthouck (John), author of a History of London, 1773, and an Historical and Classical Dictionary, 1776. Has been credited with the Life of the Man After God’s Own Heart. See [Annet].
Nordau (Max Simon), b. of Jewish parents at Pesth, 29 July, 1849. He became a physician in ’73. He has written several books of travels and made some noise by his trenchant work on Convential Lies of our Civilisation. He has since written on The Sickness of the Century.
Nork (Felix). See [Korn (Selig)].
Nott (Josiah Clark), Dr., American ethnologist, b. Columbia, South Carolina, 24 March, 1804. He wrote The Physical History of the Jewish Race, Types of Mankind, ’54, and Indigenous Races of the Earth, ’55; the last two conjointly with G. R. Gliddon, and with the object of disproving the theory of the unity of the human race. Died at Mobile, 31 March, 1873.
Noun (Paul), French author of The Scientific Errors of the Bible, 1881.
Noyes (Thomas Herbert), author of Hymns of Modern Man, 1870.
Nunez (Rafael), President of Columbia, b. Carthagena, 28 Sept. 1825. He has written many poems and political articles, and in philosophy is a follower of Mill and Spencer.
Nuytz (Louis André). See [Andre-Nuytz].
Nystrom (Anton Christen), Dr. Swedish Positivist, b. 15 Feb. 1842. Studied at Upsala and became a medical doctor in Lund, ’68. He served as assistant and field doctor in the Dano-Prussian war of ’67, and now practises an alienist in Stockholm, where he has established a Positivist Society and Workmen’s Institute. Has written a History of Civilisation.
Ocellus Lucanus, early Greek philosopher, who maintained the eternity of the cosmos. An edition of his work was published with a translation by the Marquis d’Argens, and Thomas Taylor published an English version.