The mirrour of true nobility & gentility. Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk ... / Englished by W. Rand.

  • Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655
Date:
1657
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Credit: The mirrour of true nobility & gentility. Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk ... / Englished by W. Rand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ok], tum 4 not hneed tions, tre itoge. Jute lts id the apoft er make ircurme might not ftf» he was | n us rrof his E fudi- e was | while xercile ele ex ^ , Book.1. The Life of Peireskius, ercifes robbed him of other more pleafing houres, he performed them inceed, ro pleaíe his Uncle, bur no longer then his Matters were by. that taught him ; for he wouldnever practile by. himfelf : fo much better did he acconnt it, to be alwaies reading, writing or hearing {ome point of Learn- ‘ing. , About this time there was brought co his Uncle,a peice of Golden Coine of Arcaaus, which was found at Be'genler, He prefently | deGred to have it , and. when he.had read the Letters about it; and had (ec down the Emperors name whole Coine it was, be brought ir pretent- ly co his Uncle again, who to vratitie him, gave him not only two other peices efancient Coine ; bucalio. Books, by which he might be further inüructed in the i nowledgeot inch Antiquities. ‘And from this time forwards his moft curious mind began to burn like fire 1n a wood jor he be- gan eaeerly co (eek out; and collect all the ancient Coines which he could comeby , beire eagerly bent co read and Interpre: their, Inlcriptions, up- on which occaíion alio he began -toteek out all kind of Inicriptions,whether beionging toSepul- | chers or others, and &udioutly to ob'erve them. Then he wasfent with his Brother to 7 #rney, |! that he might there go through aCourle of Philo- fophie (as they were wont to callit)his Brother being as yet taken up with Humaniide. And | being ina {pecial maner inflamed with the fludy of the Mathematicks, he eacerly drunke in that Cot- /mographie which was there taught, affuring him- felfe thar Hiftory without it and Chronoiogie, | Was. altogether in the dark and unintclligible, And therefore after the ule of the Sphere he Learnt the uíe of the Affrolabe ; write- m 1596,