General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . uits, not only prevented his ob-taining them, but rendered it necessary that heshould conceal such as accidentally came intohis hands. This severity induced him to takefor his device. Phaeton conducting the chariotof the sun, with this motto : In-jito Patresidc-ra verso. His application and success were,however, so great, as to afford considerablemarks of acuteness and power before the ageof eighteen years. He began h
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . uits, not only prevented his ob-taining them, but rendered it necessary that heshould conceal such as accidentally came intohis hands. This severity induced him to takefor his device. Phaeton conducting the chariotof the sun, with this motto : In-jito Patresidc-ra verso. His application and success were,however, so great, as to afford considerablemarks of acuteness and power before the ageof eighteen years. He began his travels in he was at Geneva he contrived a me-thod to te-ach Elizabeth ue Waidkirch to write,who had been blind from the age of twomonths. At Bcurdeaux he composed Univer-sal Gnomonical Tables, which remain unpub-lished ; and after having travelled throughFrance, in 1680 he returned home. At thistime he applied to the perusal of MallebranchesRecherche de la Verite, and the philosphy ofDes Cartes, with both which elegant and per-spicuous writers he was extremely predicted the reappearance of a comet whichwas at this time in its passage towards n^i«- /.,-u- f Z. annoik liu ?*«.!? B E R . ( 141 ) B E R perihelion, and composed a small essay on thissubject, which, together with another treatiseon the gravity of the air, are mentioned atLirge in the Acta Eruditovuni. Soon after thisperiod he travelled through Holland, \ihitcdr landers and Brabant, and came to England,vhere he cultivated the acquaintance of IJoyle,and other learned men, who then met weeklyat Air. Boyles apartments, and afterwards be-came the Royal Society. From England hepassed to Hamburgh, and thence to Basil,where he commenced a lecture, or exhibitionof philosophical and mechanical experiments,which, with new discoveries, afford-ed him great reputation. About this timeLeibnitz having published some essays on hisnew Calculus differentialis, without disclosingthe art and me
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