[181] Apparently unknown to biographers. He seems to have written nothing else. [182] Captain Marryat (1792-1848) published _Snarley-yow, or the Dog Fiend_ in 1837. [183] He is not known to biographers, and published nothing else under this name. [184] See Vol. I, page 80, note 5 {119}. [185] He published a _Family and Commercial Illustrated Almanack and Year Book ... for 1861_ (Bath, 1860). [186] Louis Dutens (1730-1812) was born at Tours, but went to England as a young man. He made the first collection of the works of Leibnitz, against the advice of Voltaire, who wrote to him: "Les ecrits de Leibnitz sont epars comme les feuilles de la Sybille, et aussi obscurs que les ecrits de cette vieille." The work appeared at Geneva, in six volumes, in 1769. [187] Mungo Park (1771-1806), the first European to explore the Niger (1795-6). His _Travels in the Interior of Africa_ appeared in 1799. He died in Africa. [188] Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) the well-known map maker of Louvain. The "Mercator's Projection" was probably made as early as 1550, but the principle of its construction was first set forth by Edward Wright (London, 1599). [189] Quirico Barilli Filopanti wrote a number of works and monographs. He succeeded in getting his _Cesare al Rubicone_ and _Degli_ _usi idraulici della Tela_ in the _Memoria letta ... all' Accademia delle Scienze in Bologna_ (1847, 1866). He also wrote _Dio esiste_ (1881), _Dio Liberale_ (1880), and _Sunto della memoria sulle geuranie ossia di alcune singolari relazioni cosmiche della terra e del cielo_ (1862). [190] The periods of disembodiment may be interesting. They will be seen from the following dates: Descartes (1596-1650), William III (1650-1702); Roger Bacon (1214 to c. 1294), Boccaccio (1313-1375). Charles IX was born in 1550 and died in 1574. [191] His real name was Frederick Parker, and he wrote several works on the Greek language and on religion. Among these were a translation of the New Testament from the Vatican MS. (1864), _The Revealed History of Man_ (1854), _An Enquiry respecting the Punctuation of Ancient Greek_ (1841), and _Rules for Ascertaining the sense conveyed in Ancient Greek Manuscripts_ (1848, the seventh edition appearing in 1862). [192] See Vol. I, page 352, second note 1 {736}. The literature on the subject of the Great Pyramid, considered from the standpoint of metrology, is extensive. [193] See Vol. I, page 80, note 5 {119}. [194] Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818) was a Whig politician. The evidence that he was the author of the _Letters of Junius_ (1769-1772) is purely circumstantial. He was clerk in the war office at the time of their publication. In 1774 he was made a member of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and was a vigorous opponent of Warren Hastings, the two fighting a duel in 1780. He entered parliament in 1784 and was among the leaders in the agitation for parliamentary reform.