[652] He seems to have attracted no attention since De Morgan's search, for he is not mentioned in recent bibliographies. [653] Joseph-Louis Vincens de Mouleon de Causans was born about the beginning of the l8th century. He was a Knight of Malta, colonel in the infantry, prince of Conti, and governor of the principality of Orange. His works on geometry are the _Prospectus apologetique pour la quadrature du cercle_ (1753), and _La vraie geometrie transcendante_ (1754). [654] See note 119, page 80. [655] See note 120, page 81. [656] Lieut. William Samuel Stratford (1791-1853), was in active service during the Napoleonic wars but retired from the army in 1815. He was first secretary of the Astronomical Society (1820) and became superintendent of the Nautical Almanac in 1831. With Francis Baily he compiled a star catalogue, and wrote on Halley's (1835-1836) and Encke's (1838) comets. [657] See Sir J. Herschel's _Astronomy_, p. 369.--A. De M. [658] Captain Ross had just stuck a bit of brass there.--A. De M. Sir James Clark Ross (1800-1862) was a rear admiral in the British navy and an arctic and antarctic explorer of prominence. De Morgan's reference is to Ross's discovery of the magnetic pole on June 1, 1831. In 1838 he was employed by the Admiralty on a magnetic survey of the United Kingdom. He was awarded the gold medal of the geographical societies of London and Paris in 1842. [659] John Partridge (1644-1715), the well-known astrologer and almanac maker. Although bound to a shoemaker in his early boyhood, he had acquired enough Latin at the age of eighteen to read the works of the astrologers. He then mastered Greek and Hebrew and studied medicine. In 1680 he began the publication of his almanac, the _Merlinus Liberatus_, a book that acquired literary celebrity largely through the witty comments upon it by such writers as Swift and Steele. [660] See note 642 on page 296. [661] William Woodley also published several almanacs (1838, 1839, 1840) after his rejection by the Astronomical Society in 1834. [662] It appeared at London. [663] The first edition appeared in 1830, also at London. [664] See note 441, page 196. [665] Thomas Kerigan wrote _The Young Navigator's Guide to the siderial and planetary parts of Nautical Astronomy_ (London, 1821, second edition 1828), a work on eclipses (London, 1844), and the work on tides (London, 1847) to which De Morgan refers. [666] Jean Sylvain Bailly, who was guillotined. See note 365, page 166. [667] See note 670, page 309. [668] Laurent seems to have had faint glimpses of the modern theory of matter. He is, however, unknown. [669] See note 133, page 87. [670] Francis Baily (1774-1844) was a London stockbroker. His interest in science in general and in astronomy in particular led to his membership in the Royal Society and to his presidency of the Astronomical Society. He wrote on interest and annuities (1808), but his chief works were on astronomy.