. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... ociety; and one rif the eriminissionersemployed to determine the boundary linebetween Pcnnsjlvania and \irginia, andbetHcen New York and was treasurer of Iennsvlvania 1777to 1789, and from 1792 to 1795direci.,r cfthe United Stales mint. His death took,place in 1796. His mathematical tuk-ntswere of the highest order. , AuciUSTLs QuiRiNtS, aneminent botanist and physician, whose realname was Bathmanu, was horn, in 1652,at Leipsic; piai tisid mediciiu, and
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... ociety; and one rif the eriminissionersemployed to determine the boundary linebetween Pcnnsjlvania and \irginia, andbetHcen New York and was treasurer of Iennsvlvania 1777to 1789, and from 1792 to 1795direci.,r cfthe United Stales mint. His death took,place in 1796. His mathematical tuk-ntswere of the highest order. , AuciUSTLs QuiRiNtS, aneminent botanist and physician, whose realname was Bathmanu, was horn, in 1652,at Leipsic; piai tisid mediciiu, and wasprofessor of phjsii I gy and botany, in Ilianative city; and died in 1723. Ilis primi-pal work is a Svstema Flantarum. Rivi-nnss system of classification is founded onthe foriu of the corolla. ROI5ERT DE VAUCONDY, Gilks,a French gc igra|)lier, was born, in 1688,at Paris, and died there in 1766. Amonghis works are, The (ireat Iniversal Atlas,in lOS sheets; and a Ccuuplete Atlas of theRev(dutions of the (ilobc, in 66 sheets.—His sou, who was Ijorn in 1723, and diedin 1786, was also an able , W i i a m, a div ine anda edelnalcd historian, was born, in 1721,at Horthv/vk, in Miil Lothian, of whichparish his father was the minister. Afteriiav ing been edinated at Dalkeith, and ;liid)urgh university, he was presented, in1743, to the living lif (Jladsmuir. Duringthe rebellion he b^ire arms as a volunteerIlis first work was a Sermon, ])ublished iu1755, which passed through numerous edi- ROB lions. It was not, however, till 1759, that,by his History of Scotland, he acquired aplace among British classical writers. Famewas accompanied by preferment. He wastransferred from Giadsmiiir to Edinburgh;and, in , 1761, 1762, and 1764, ciiaplain of Stirling Castle, one ofthe king s chaplains, principal of the uni-versity of Edinburgh, and royal historiog-rapher for Sfothind. Advancement in theEnglish church was offered to him, but wasrefused. I
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