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sir CHRISTOPHER WREN, knt.
“ other Nations) that the Glory of Philosophy among the Moderns began" with the Lord Bacon, continu’d improving principally by the above-men-" tion’d Mr. Boyle ; vi s. Seth Ward , Wilkins, Williams, Wren, Wallis, Mr.
'< Rook ; Hook ; and Dr. Halley ; and ends in Sir Isaac Newton.
The great Virtuoso John Evelyn, Esq; in his elegant Discourse of Medals,collecting the Names of the most renowned, famous, and illustrious Per-sons, in all Professions of our own, and other Nations, worthy the Honourof Medals *, terminates his Catalogue of Mathematicians, with this Ani- * P 261.
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“ To whom add those Vin ITOATMA0E2TATOI, (highly meriting, and infe-riors to none we have celebrated) Sir Chriflopher Wren, Dr. Wallis, New-ton, Flamjlead, Hook, Halley, &c. Fellows of the Royal Society , whomnone but the ArEOMETPHTOi and Ignorant, such as have nothing to com-mend them, will envy the Honour of a Medal, even whilst they are living,and their Works speak for them.
PART I.
SECT. III.
A. Catalogue of some of the philosophical TraSls , Manu-scripts and printed, of Sir Chr. Wren; such as, at pre-sent, have occurs d to the Colle&or.
I.
sjfOrologiorum Sciotericorum in piano, geometries folium, fine calculo trigonome-trico, delineandorum, modus jacillimus : per quem ?neridiana JubJiylarisis ipfe non in<uejli s antur modo,- fed etiam in cujufois generis piano, situinferibuntur , omniaque perspi cue demonjlratitur. Ex Anglico idiomate^ulielmi Oughtred, Clavis mathematics.
II.
. Sciotericon catholicum. The Art of Dialling, perform’d on all Planes, and Ann, Æt .. 5 ,
* n all Latitudes, with much Facility, by a peculiar Instrument.
Eor many other Uses in the organ leal Part of Mathematicks.
III.
'Trigonometries spharica injlitutio Neperiana ad praxin accommodate. Ann. Æt. , 6 .
IV.
£pijlolce miscellanea, de propofitionibus in opticis, jlaticis £? mechamci.
h’rœleSliones Grejhamenses in ajlronomiam Kepleri.
VI.
rœkSliones ajlronomica. Oxoniæ 166
VII.
^blurce de problematibus sph
tericis.
VIII.