Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

by Various

Clyst St. George.

These lines also are to be found on the marble basins for containing holy water, in one of the churches at Paris.

W. C. Trevelyan.

The Greek inscription mentioned by Jeremy Taylor is on the font in Rufford Church.

H. A.

Heuristisch (Vol. vii., p. 237.).—In reply to H. B. C. of the U. U. Club, I beg to give the explanation of the word heuristisch, with its cognate terms, from Heyse's Allgemeines Fremdwörterbuch, 10th edition, Hanover, 1848:

"Heuréka, gr. (von heuriskein, finden), ich hab' es gefunden, gefunden! Heuristik, f. die Erfindungskunst; heuristisch, erfindungskünstlich, erfinderisch; heuristische Methode, entwickelnde Lehrart, welche den Schüler zum Selbstfinden der Lehrsätze anleitet."

J. M.

Oxford.

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