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THE
PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE
UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
By J. L. Craik & C. Ruight=
ILLUSTRATED BY ANECDOTES.
With Portraits.
REVISED EDITION,
WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES,
BY
FRANCIS WAYLAND, D.D.,
PRESIDENT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
82 CLIFF STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by MARSH, CAPEN, LYON, AND WEBB,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION. Amusement in the Pursuit of Knowl-
edge. Pursuit of Knowledge by Persons of Rank or
Wealth:-Crates; Thales; Democritus; Anaxag-
oras; Pythagoras; Alfieri; Nicephorus Alphery;
Marcus Aurelius; Julian; Charlemagne ; Alfred;
James I., of Scotland; Henry I.; Charles V.;
Henry VIII.; Edward VI.; Elizabeth; James I.,
of England; Alphonso X.,
CHAPTER II.
Peter the Great, (Czar of Russia.) NOTE.
CHAPTER III.
Advantages of Wealth in the Pursuit of Knowledge :
-Napier, .
CHAPTER IV.
Drummond of Hawthornden; Tycho Brahe; Tschirn-
hausen; Boyle,-The Air-pump, and Air ;-Cav-
endish. NOTE, .
CHAPTER V.
Other Individuals of Rank distinguished in Literature
and Science :-Marquis of Worcester; Viscount
Brouncker; Earl of Macclesfield; Lord Stanhope;
Prince Rupert; Baron Hermelin; Marshal Vau-
ban; Buffon; Baron Von Canstein. Self-educa-
ted Cultivators of Science :-Parkes; Davy, . . 90
CHAPTER VI.
Diversities of Intellectual Excellence :-English Pain-
ters-Spencer; Highmore; Hannam; Wright;
Gilpin; Gainsborough; Barry; Lawrence, 119
CHAPTER VII.
Painters continued: -Giotto; Batoni; Greuze;
Ehret; Solario. Other Cultivators of the Fine
Arts -Canova; Bewick,-Wood Engraving, 140
CHAPTER VIII.
Usefulness of such encouragements as the examples
here given are calculated to afford to youthful ge-
nius, in every department of study. Self-educated
Poets-John Taylor; Antonio Bianchi; Ram-
say; Bloomfield; Duck,
159
Optical Discoveries :-Spectacles; Magnifying or
Burning Glasses; Camera Obscura; Telescope.
Professors of Optical Discovery :-Dollond; Rams-
den; Sir W. Herschel; Fraunhofer; Thomas
Phelps and John Bartlett; Palitzch,
CHAPTER XII.
Discovery and Improvement of the Steam-Engine
James Watt, .
CHAPTER XIII.
195
215
239
Sir Richard Arkwright:-The Cotton Manufacture, 265
CHAPTER XIV.
Invention of the Power-Loom :-Dr. Cartwright.
William Edwards,-Notice of Bridges; Robert
Walker,
282