. The history of the Fife Pitcairns : with transcripts from old charters . s intention of his father was, that he should study forthe Church. He went through a course of Divinity afterhaving studied Philosophy. Like many men of talent andgenius, he was some time before he could make up hismind as to his future profession. Ultimately he decidedto go in for law, which he did first in Edinburgh, andafterwards in Paris. His father had been much disap-pointed that he had given up being a clergyman, but hisnatural vivacity was against it; so with great reluctancehe gave way, and allo
. The history of the Fife Pitcairns : with transcripts from old charters . s intention of his father was, that he should study forthe Church. He went through a course of Divinity afterhaving studied Philosophy. Like many men of talent andgenius, he was some time before he could make up hismind as to his future profession. Ultimately he decidedto go in for law, which he did first in Edinburgh, andafterwards in Paris. His father had been much disap-pointed that he had given up being a clergyman, but hisnatural vivacity was against it; so with great reluctancehe gave way, and allowed him to study law. Liking thismuch better, Pitcairne worked very hard indeed, trying toexcel in everything he undertook. But the severe strainwas too much for his youthful constitution, and it wasnot long before he was threatened with consumption, sohe set out, by the advice of his doctor, for Montpellier,in the south of France. On his way there he stopped inParis, but here feeling much better, he decided there wasno occasion to go farther, and meeting some agreeable. Dr. Archibald Pitcairn1652-1713. Ey Sir John Medii DR ARCHIBALD PITCAIRNE. 371 Scottish friends, he determined to put an end to his travels,and study law in the Paris University. However, his friends, who were medical students, easilypersuaded him to give up the law, telling him there wasno good professor there now, ?nd how much better itwould be for him if he would join them in going to theHospitals. He was much interested in them, and theirwork, and decided to follow their profession. He at-tended the Hospitals in Paris for some months, when hisfather wrote to say he wished him to return to Edinburgh. He did so, and was induced by his intimate friend, DrDavid Gregory, to begin the study of mathematics, in whichhe acquired exceptional proficiency, which suited his geniusabove anything he had tried before. Meeting with thelately invented method of infinite series, he made someimprovements thereon, which were af
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