[211] De Morgan took, perhaps, the more delight in speaking thus of Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856) because of a spirited controversy that they had in 1847 over the theory of logic. Possibly, too, Sir William's low opinion of mathematics had its influence. [212] Edwards (1699-1757) wrote _The canons of criticism_ (1747) in which he gave a scathing burlesque on Warburton's Shakespeare. It went through six editions. [213] Antoine Teissier (born in 1632) published his _Eloges des hommes savants, tires de l'histoire de M. de Thou_ in 1683. [214] "He boasted without reason of having found the quadrature of the circle. The glory of this admirable discovery was reserved for Joseph Scaliger, as Scevole de St. Marthe has written." [215] _Natural and political observations mentioned in the following Index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality.... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, and diseases of the said city._ London, 1662, 4to. The book went through several editions. [216] _Ne sutor ultra crepidam_, "Let the cobbler stick to his last," as we now say. [217] The author (1632-1695) of the _Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis_ (1674). See note 163, page 98. [218] The mathematical guild owes Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) for something besides his famous diary (1659-1669). Not only was he president of the Royal Society (1684), but he was interested in establishing Sir William Boreman's mathematical school at Greenwich. [219] John Graunt (1620-1674) was a draper by trade, and was a member of the Common Council of London until he lost office by turning Romanist. Although a shopkeeper, he was elected to the Royal Society on the special recommendation of Charles II. Petty edited the fifth edition of his work, adding much to its size and value, and this may be the basis of Burnet's account of the authorship. [220] Petty (1623-1687) was a mathematician and economist, and a friend of Pell and Sir Charles Cavendish. His survey of Ireland, made for Cromwell, was one of the first to be made on a large scale in a scientific manner. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society. [221] The story probably arose from Graunt's recent conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. [222] He was born in 1627 and died in 1704. He published a series of ephemerides, beginning in 1659. He was imprisoned in 1679, at the time of the "Popish Plot," and again for treason in 1690. His important astrological works are the _Animal Cornatum, or the Horn'd Beast_ (1654) and _The Nativity of the late King Charls_ (1659).