Excerpt from The British Plutarch, or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection of the Lives at Large of the Most Eminent Men, Natives of Great Britain and Ireland, From the Reign of Henry VIII. To George II.; Vol; 11-12 Our author, therefore, by thus turning his thoughts to-the mathematics, feems to have done no more than fall in, as well with his own particular fituation, ' as with the general tafie of that time; but then it is univerfally confelc, he did it with a genius that was fu perior to' all that ever went before him in any time, Achime'des only excepted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.