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The Achievements of Great Britian in the Realm of Mathematics*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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The inhabitants of the three kingdoms which constitute Great Britain did not come into contact with the civilisation of the ancient East. Nor, as far as we know, did they have the advantage of direct relations with the Greeks—that race, beloved of Nature, which succeeded in placing all the sciences and all the fundamental arts on so secure a basis as to defy for two thousand years any attempt at radical innovation.
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An address delivered to the International Congress of Historical Studies, London, April 4. 1913, by Prof. Gino Loria. Translated for the Gazette by kind permission of the Author.
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Page 424 of note * A. Falvaro Mentions the Englishmen of the School of Galileo in several chapters of his series, “Amici e correspondenti di Galilei” (published in the Atti del R. Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Letter ed Arti), and in many places in his “ Scnmpoli galileiani ” (in the Memorie della R. Accademia di Padova).
Page 424 of note † Cf.Rigaud, L. J. Correspondence of Scientific Men of the 17th Cerltury (Oxford, 1811).Google Scholar
Page 425 of note * The apparatus invented by Napier is now exhibited in theSouth Kensington Museum.
Page 425 of note † Vacca, G. “Sui manuscitta inediti di Thoma Harriot” (Bolletin di bibl. e storia delle Scienze matematiche, t. v. 1902,pp. 1–6).Google Scholar
Page 426 of note * [William Rowan Hamilton at the age of twelve was on more than one occasion a match for Zerah Colburn (v. Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Hamilton W R.”) W .J. G.]