p. 80, l. 19. Samos, Polycrates. Polycrates (d. 522 B.C.) was tyrant of Samos.
P. 83, l. 14. Dr Barrow (1630-1677), preceded Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge (1663-1669). He had before been Professor of Greek in the same University.
P. 83, l. 23. Censorinus, wrote De Die Natali (A.D. 238).
Aristides, Quintilianus, author of a treatise on music. The 3rd book deals with the numerical ratios which define musical intervals, and their connection with physical and moral science.
P. 84, l. 22. Dr Harvey's, in his Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium (1651).
P. 85, l. 19. who were so learned, &c. This passage is omitted from the selections given in this volume from Temple's Essay. It is to be found in T. iii. p. 459.
P. 86, l. 9. Euphorbus. Cf. 'That [[[Author:Thales of Miletus|Thales]]] improved . . . the Geometry which he learnt of the Egyptians with many propositions of his own, is confirmed by Laertius [I. i. 25], who saith that he much advanced those things, the invention whereof Callimachus in his Iambics ascribes to Euphorbus the Phrygian . . . ' (Stanley's History of Philosophy (1655), Vol. I. p. 16).
Nice, exact.
P. 87, l. 9. Aratus's Diosemeia. Aratus (fl. B.C. 270) wrote two astronomical poems, Phaenomena and Diosemeia, the latter an account of prognostics of weather, with an account of its effects on animals.
P. 88, l. 1. flea'd, flayed. Cf. Tom Jones, Book III. Chap. II. 'He was content to be flead rather than betray his friend.'
P. 88, l. 3. Etesian winds, see note on p. 38, l. 5.
