[123] Franciscus van Schooten (died in 1661) was professor of mathematics at Leyden. He edited Descartes's _La Geometrie_. [124] Florimond de Beaune (1601-1652) was the first Frenchman to write a commentary on Descartes's _La Geometrie_. He did some noteworthy work in the theory of curves. [125] See note 3 {23}, Vol. I, page 41. [126] Olivier de Serres (b. in 1539) was a writer on agriculture. Montucla speaks of him in his _Quadrature du cercle_ (page 227) as having asserted that the circle is twice the inscribed equilateral triangle, although, as De Morgan points out, this did not fairly interpret his position. [127] Anghera wrote not only the three works here mentioned, but also the _Problemi del piu alto interesse scientifico, geometricamente risoluti e dimostrati_, Naples, 1861. His quadrature was defended by Giovanni Motti in a work entitled _Matematica Vera. Falsita del sistema ciclometrico d'Archimede, quadratura del cerchio d'Anghera, ricerca algebraica dei lati di qualunque poligono regolare inscritto in un circolo_, Voghera, 1877. The _Problemi_ of 1861 contains Anghera's portrait, and states that he lived at Malta from 1849 to 1861. It further states that the Malta publications are in part reproduced in this work. [128] This was his friend Paolo Pullicino whose _Elogio_ was pronounced by L. Farrugia at Malta in 1890. He wrote a work _La Santa Effegie della Blata Vergine Maria_, published at Valetta in 1868. [129] St. Vitus, St. Modestus, and St. Crescentia were all martyred the same day, being torn limb from limb after lions and molten lead had proved of no avail. At least so the story runs. [130] The reference is to Cardinal Wiseman. See Vol. II, page 26, note 56. [131] "Worthy of esteem." [132] Pedro de Ribadeneira (Ribadeneyra, Rivadeneira), was born at Toledo in 1526 and died in 1611. He held high position in the Jesuit order. The work referred to is the _Flos Sanctorum o libro de las vidas de los santos_, of which there was an edition at Barcelona in 1643. His life of Loyola (1572) and _Historia ecclesiastica del Cisma del reino de Inglaterra_ were well known. [133] Caesar Baronius (1538-1607) was made a cardinal in 1595 and became librarian at the Vatican in 1597. The work referred to appeared at Rome in 1589. [134] Mrs. Jameson's (1794-1860) works were very popular half a century ago, and still have some circulation among art lovers. The first edition of the work mentioned appeared in 1848. [135] The barnyard cock. [136] Shanks did nothing but computing. The title should, of course, read "to 607 Places of _Decimals_." He later carried the computation to 707 decimal places. (_Proc. Roy. Society_, XXI, p. 319.) He also prepared a table of prime numbers up to 60,000. (_Proc. Roy. Society_, XXII, p. 200.) [137] See Vol. I, page 42, note 4 {24}. [138] See Vol. I, page 64, note 1 {78}. [139] See Vol. I, page 328, note 1 {704}.