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fome, and no one can ever forget or ceafe to love thofe
they have known.
The figure lying down with a pen in one hand, and
neareft the eye of the fpcc~tator, is Roger Bacon, an
Englifh Francifcan Monk, with his Opus Majus in the
other near him is Archimedes, Defcartes, and Thales
who firft taught aftronomy to the Greeks, with a celef-
tial fphere divided into five zones, the conftellation of
the Urfa Minor, which was the foundation of navigati-
on, and a diagram for explaining the doctrine of eclipfes,
which he firft difcovered j in the hand of Defcartes is
a geometrical work on which they are attentive, where
I have introduced that problem af the Cylinder, Sphere,
and Cone, as the ultimatum of antient Geometry,
which Cicero tells us he had difcovered on the tomb of
Archimedes; oppofed to this is another problem of
Defcartes ; behind him is Sir Francis Bacon, Nicholas
Copernicus, Gallileo, and Sir Ifaac Newton, who, with
two angels, are looking at a folar fyftem, which the
inferior angel is uncovering, whilft the fuperior, with one
finger over a comet in its aphelion, and the other point-
ing up, may be fuppofed to explain fome piece of divine
wifdom, which her admiring hearers had been before
unacquainted with. Not only in this gr©up, but through
the whole picture, I have endeavoured to make the par-
ticular happinefs of each clafs and order of men to con-
fift greatly in the purfuit of their favourite ftudies, in
which they may now be fuppofed to enjoy a more clear
and
fome, and no one can ever forget or ceafe to love thofe
they have known.
The figure lying down with a pen in one hand, and
neareft the eye of the fpcc~tator, is Roger Bacon, an
Englifh Francifcan Monk, with his Opus Majus in the
other near him is Archimedes, Defcartes, and Thales
who firft taught aftronomy to the Greeks, with a celef-
tial fphere divided into five zones, the conftellation of
the Urfa Minor, which was the foundation of navigati-
on, and a diagram for explaining the doctrine of eclipfes,
which he firft difcovered j in the hand of Defcartes is
a geometrical work on which they are attentive, where
I have introduced that problem af the Cylinder, Sphere,
and Cone, as the ultimatum of antient Geometry,
which Cicero tells us he had difcovered on the tomb of
Archimedes; oppofed to this is another problem of
Defcartes ; behind him is Sir Francis Bacon, Nicholas
Copernicus, Gallileo, and Sir Ifaac Newton, who, with
two angels, are looking at a folar fyftem, which the
inferior angel is uncovering, whilft the fuperior, with one
finger over a comet in its aphelion, and the other point-
ing up, may be fuppofed to explain fome piece of divine
wifdom, which her admiring hearers had been before
unacquainted with. Not only in this gr©up, but through
the whole picture, I have endeavoured to make the par-
ticular happinefs of each clafs and order of men to con-
fift greatly in the purfuit of their favourite ftudies, in
which they may now be fuppofed to enjoy a more clear
and