On which de Faure remarks with triumph--as I have no doubt it was intended he should do--"il conste clairement par ma presente Analyse et Demonstration, qu'ils y ont deja {151} reconnu et approuve parfaitement que la quadrature du cercle est mathematiquement demontree."[328] It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. An attempt to demonstrate that all the Phenomena in Nature may be explained by two simple active principles, Attraction and Repulsion, wherein the attraction of Cohesion, Gravity and Magnetism are shown to be one the same. By Gowin Knight. London, 1748, 4to. Dr. Knight[329] was Mr. Panizzi's[330] archetype, the first Principal Librarian of the British Museum. He was celebrated for his magnetical experiments. This work was long neglected; but is now recognized as of remarkable resemblance to modern speculations. THOMAS WRIGHT OF DURHAM. An original theory or Hypothesis of the Universe. By Thomas Wright[331] of Durham. London, 4to, 1750. Wright is a speculator whose thoughts are now part of our current astronomy. He took that view--or most of it--of the milky way which afterwards suggested itself to William Herschel. I have given an account of him and his work in the _Philosophical Magazine_ for April, 1848. Wright was mathematical instrument maker to the King, {152} and kept a shop in Fleet Street. Is the celebrated business of Troughton & Simms, also in Fleet Street, a lineal descendant of that of Wright? It is likely enough, more likely that that--as I find him reported to have affirmed--Prester John was the descendant of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Having settled it thus, it struck me that I might apply to Mr. Simms, and he informs me that it is as I thought, the line of descent being Wright, Cole, John Troughton, Edward Troughton,[332] Troughton & Simms.[333] BISHOP HORNE ON NEWTON. The theology and philosophy in Cicero's _Somnium Scipionis_ explained. Or, a brief attempt to demonstrate, that the Newtonian system is perfectly agreeable to the notions of the wisest ancients: and that mathematical principles are the only sure ones. [By Bishop Horne,[334] at the age of nineteen.] London, 1751, 8vo. This tract, which was not printed in the collected works, and is now excessively rare, is mentioned in _Notes and Queries_, 1st S., v, 490, 573; 2d S., ix, 15. The boyish satire on Newton is amusing. Speaking of old Benjamin Martin,[335] he goes on as follows: {153} "But the most elegant account of the matter [attraction] is by that hominiform animal, Mr. Benjamin Martin, who having attended Dr. Desaguliers'[336] fine, raree, gallanty shew for some years [Desaguliers was one of the first who gave public experimental lectures, before the saucy boy was born] in the capacity of a turnspit, has, it seems, taken it into his head to set up for a philosopher."