Youthful Prodigies, I, 219.

Yvon, I, _297_.

Zach, von, II, _45_, 196.

Zachary, Pope, I, 32, 34.

Zadkiel, I, _321_; II, 43.

Zetetic Astronomy, II, 88.

Zodiac, II, 136.

Zytphen, II, _335_.

Notes

Transcriber's note: References to Notes in Volume I are shown as in the printed book, with the resequenced footnote numbers in the Project Gutenberg Edition (EText-No. 23100) added thus {123}.

[1] See Vol. I, page 255, note 6 {584}.

[2] "I have no need for this hypothesis."

[3] "Ah, it is a beautiful hypothesis; it explains many things."

[4] "What we know is very slight; what we don't know is immense."

[5] Brewster relates (_Life of Sir Isaac Newton_, Vol. II, p. 407) that, a short time before his death, Newton remarked: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seash.o.r.e, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier sh.e.l.l than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

[6] See Vol. I, p. 292, note 1 {632}.

[7] "What is all that!"

[8] "I have some good news to tell you: at the Bureau of Longitudes they have just received a letter from Germany announcing that M. Bessel has verified by observation your theoretical discoveries on the satellites of Jupiter."

[9] "Man follows only phantoms."

[10] See Vol. I, page 382, note 13 {786}.

[11] Dieudonne Thiebault (1733-1807) was a Jesuit in his early life, but he left the order and took up the study of law. In 1765 he went to Prussia and became a favorite of Frederick the Great. He returned to France in 1785 and became head of the Lycee at Versailles.

[12] _Memories of Twenty Years of Residence in Berlin._ There was a second French and an English edition in 1805.

[13] Richard Joachim Heinrich von Mollendorff (1724-1816) began his career as a page of Frederick the Great (1740) and became field marshal (1793) and commander of the Prussian army on the Rhine (1794).

[14] Hugues Bernard Maret (1763-1839) was not Duc de Ba.s.sano in 1807, this t.i.tle not being conferred upon him until 1809. He was amba.s.sador to England in 1792 and to Naples in 1793. Napoleon made him head of the cabinet and his special confidant. The Bourbons exiled him in 1816.

[15] Denis Diderot (1713-1784), whose _Lettre sur les aveugles_ (1749) introduced him to the world as a philosopher, and whose work on the _Encyclopedie_ is so well known.

[16] "Sir, (a + b^{n}) / n = x, whence G.o.d exists; answer!"

[17] This was one James Laurie of Musselburgh.

[18] Jelinger Cookson Symons (1809-1860) was an office-holder with a decided leaning towards the improvement of education and social conditions.

He wrote _A Plea for Schools_ (1847), _The Industrial Capacities of South Wales_ (1855), and _Lunar Motion_ (1856), to which last work the critic probably refers.

[19] "Protimalethes" followed this by another work along the same line the following year, _The Independence of the Testimony of St. Matthew and St.

John tested and vindicated by the theory of chances_.

[20] Wilson had already taken up the lance against science in his _Strictures on Geology and Astronomy, in reference to a supposed want of harmony between these sciences and some parts of Divine Revelation_, Glasgow, 1843. He had also ventured upon poetry in his _Pleasures of Piety_, Glasgow, 1837.

[21] Mrs. Borron was Elizabeth Willesford Mills before her marriage. She made an attempt at literature in her _Sibyl's Leaves_, London (printed at Devonport), 1826.

[22] See Vol. I, page 386, note 10 {801}.

[23] See Vol. I, page 43, notes 7 {32} and 8 {33}.

[24] His flying machine, designed in 1843, was one of the earliest attempts at aviation on any extensive scale.

[25] Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was the grandfather of Charles Darwin. The work here mentioned had great influence, being translated into French, Portuguese, and Italian. Canning parodied it in his _Loves of the Triangles_.

[26] See Vol. I, page 147, note 1 {312}.

[27] The notes on this page were written on the day of the funeral of Wilbur Wright, June 1, 1912, the man who realized all of these prophecies, and then died a victim of munic.i.p.al crime,--of typhoid fever.

[28] John Charles, third Earl Spencer (1782-1845), to whose efforts the Reform Bill was greatly indebted for its final success.

[29] This was published in London in 1851 instead of 1848.

[30] This appeared in 1846.

[31] This was done in _The Circle Squared_, published at Brighton in 1865.

[32] It first appeared in 1847, under the t.i.tle, _The Scriptural Calendar and Chronological Reformer, 1848. Including a review of tracts by Dr.

Wardlaw and others on the Sabbath question. By W. H. Black._ The one above mentioned, for 1849, was printed in 1848, and was also by Black (1808-1872). He was pastor of the Seventh Day Baptists and was interested in archeology and in books. He catalogued the ma.n.u.scripts of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.

[33] William Upton, a Trinity College man, Dublin. He also wrote _Upton's Physioglyphics_, London, 1844; _Pars prima. Geometria vindicata; antiquorumque Problematum, ad hoc tempus desperatorum, Trisectionis Anguli, Circulique Quadraturae, Solutio, per Eucliden effecta, London_ (printed at Southampton), 1847; _The Uptonian Trisection_, London, 1866; and _The Circle Squared_, London, 1872.

[34] For example, if [theta] = 90 we should have 3 cos 30 = 1 + [root](4 - sin^2 90), or 3. [root]3 = 1 + [root]3, or [root]3 = 1.

[35] Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854) was surgeon at the Danish settlement at Serampore when the East India Company took over the control in 1807. He entered the British medical service and was invalided to England in 1828.

His _Plantae Asiaticae Rariores_ (3 vols., London, 1830-1832) was recognized as a standard. He became vice-president of the Linnean Society, F. R. S., and fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

[36] But if [theta] = 90 this a.s.serts that

cos 30 = (sin 270 . cos 225 + sin^2 90 . sin 225) / [root](sin^2 270 . cos^2 225 + sin^{4} 90 + sin 270 . sin 450 . sin^2 90),

or that

[root]3 = (-1 . (-1 /[root]2) + 1 . (-1/[root]2) / [root]1 . + 1 - 1 . 1 . 1) = 0 / [root],

so that De Morgan must have made some error in copying.