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5. MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again."-BACON.

"As tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick eye, and a body ready to put itself into all postures; so in the mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended."-BACON.

A few authorities, who may be considered as classics, are mentioned.

Earlier Writers.-Euclid, Archimedes, Copernicus's De Orbium Cælestium revolutionibus, Kepler's Astronomia nova, Pascal, Halley, Wallis, Huygens, Newton, Leibnitz, Des Cartes.

Later Writers.-Euler, D'Alembert, Lalande, Maclaurin, La Grange, La Place, Young, Gauss, Le Gendre, Herschel, Playfair, Simpson, Leslie.

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Good Elementary Works for the Beginner.-In Arithmetic, Davies, Perkins, and Colburn. In Algebra, Davies, Perkins, and Bourdon. In Geometry, Brewster's Le Gendre and Trigonometry, or Playfair's Euclid. In Conic Sections, JackIn Analytical Geometry, Davies and Le Gendre. In Descriptive Geometry, Monge or Davies, Davies's Shades and Shadows. In Differential and Integral Calculus, Davies. In Pure Mechanics, Boucharlat. In Physical Mechanics, Whewell, Moseley's Illustrations, Lardner's Hydrostatics. In Physics, Bache's edition of Brewster's Optics, Bartlett's Optics, Fisher's Physics, Daniell's Introduction. In Astronomy, Biot, Norton, Herschel, Arago or Olmstead. Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences.

* In this, the next, and several other departments, we omit living writers

6. CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL HISTORY.

"Nature never did betray

The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,
Through all the years of this our life, to lead
From joy to joy: for she can so inform
The mind that is within us, so impress
With quietness and beauty, and so feed

With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues,
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb
Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold
Is full of blessing."

(A.) CHEMISTRY.

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WORDSWORTH.

Earlier Authors. - Roger Bacon, Boyle, Hooke, Stahl, Boerhaave, Black, Cavendish, Priestley, Bergman, Scheele, Lavoisier.

Later Authors.-Berthollet, Fourcroy, Klaproth, Vauquelin, Gay Lussac, Thenard, Wollaston, Davy, Dalton, Thompson, Berzelius, Faraday, Oken.

(B.) MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY.

Mineralogy.-Agricola, Von Brommel, Linnæus, Pallas, Werner, Hauy, Mohs, Phillips, Jameson, Cleaveland, Brongniart, Leonhard, Dana, Shepard.

Geology.-Hooke, Whiston, Burnett, Hutton, Woodward, Werner, De Luc, Saussure, Playfair, Smith, Cuvier, Brongniart, Von Buch, Buckland, Sedgwick, Hitchcock, Lyell, Humboldt, Hausman, &c., &c., &c.

(C.) BOTANY.

Ancient Authors.-Theophrastus, Dioscorides, Pliny. Earlier Modern Authors.-Parkinson, Gesner, Fuchs, Matthiolus, Lobelius, Clusius, Cæsalpinus, Bauhin, Ray, Morrison, Tournefort, Vaillant, Dillenius, Haller.

Later Modern Authors.-Linnæus, Jussieu, Wahlenberg, Robert Brown, Humboldt, Willdenow, De Candolle, Hooker, Lindley, Martius, Bentham, Endlicher, Kunth.

American Authors.-Cornutus, Plukenet, Clayton, Cutler, Muhlenberg, Michaux, Bigelow, Pursh, Torrey, Elliott, Nuttall, Eaton, Darlington, Gray, Beck.

(D.) ZOOLOGY.

Ancient Authors.-Aristotle, Pliny.

Modern Authors.-Gesner, Belon, Rondelet, Willoughby, Ray, Redi, Malpighi, Swammerdam, Linnæus, Buffon, Illiger, Blumenbach, Cuvier, Lacepede, Agassiz, Wilson, Bonaparte, Brongniart, Spence and Kirby, Daubenton, Ferussac, Home, Huber, Humboldt, Lacretelle, Selby, Sowerby, Swainson, Say, Audubon, Nuttall, Harlan.

(E.) NATURAL HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA. Godman's American Natural History; Richardson's Fauna; Wilson's, Bonaparte's, and Audubon's American Ornithology; Michaux, Colden, Barton, Bigelow, Nuttall, and Torrey on the Botany and Dendrology of North America; Cleaveland, Shepard, and Dana on Mineralogy; Maclure, Hitchcock, and Eaton on Geology; the Reports of Drs. Jackson, the brothers Rogers, Emmons, Mather, Vanuxen, and the Natural History of the State of New-York.

7. THEOLOGY.

"Our minister will not offer to God of that which costs him nothing, but takes pains aforehand with his sermons. Demosthenes never made any oration on the sudden; yea, being called upon, he never rose up to speak except he had well studied the matter; and he was went to say that he showed how he honoured and reverenced the people of Athens, because he was careful what he spake to them."-FULLER.

(A.) GENERAL.

1. Latin Fathers.--Clement of Rome, Irenæus, Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, Lactantius, Cyprian.

2. Greek Fathers.-Ignatius, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Eusebius, Chrysostom, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen.

3. Medieval.-Bede, Alcuin, Averroes Aquinas, Thomas à Kempis, Duns Scotus, Wickliff, Albertus Magnus, Occam, Raymonde de Sebonde, Ficinus, Grosseteste.

4. Modern.- Erasmus, Luther, Cranmer, Melancthon, Hooper, Ridley, Calvin, Beza, Jewell, Chemnitz, Bellarmin, Paul Sarpi, Hooker, Plessis du Mornay, Claud, Laud, Grotius, Usher, Episcopius, Daillé, Chillingworth, Hammond, Jeremy Taylor, Baxter, Owen, Bossuet, Barrow, Tillotson, Bourdaloue, Bull, Stillingfleet, Whitby, Burnet, Turretin, Dupin, Fleury, Gill, Patrick, Secker, Mosheim, Campbell, Lowth, Horseley, Porteus, White, Dwight, &c., &c., &c.

(B.) BIBLICAL.

1. Patristic.-Origen's Commentaries and Scholia, preserved in part only; Chrysostom's Homilies on most of the Old and New Testaments; Theophylact's Scholia; Jerome's Commentary; Hilary on the Psalms and St. Matthew; St. Augustine's Commentary, and the various Catena. 2. Rabbinical.-Aben Ezra, David Kimchi, Abarbanel, Ben Maimon or Maimonides, Carpzovius.

3. Mediaval.-Bede's Catena; Alcuin's Commentary; Anselm's Glossary; Aquinas's Catenæ ; Nicholas de Lyra's Postills.

4. Modern.-General.-Luther's Commentaries; Calvin's do.; Critici Sacri; Pool's Synopsis; Cocceius, Calmet, Hammond, Whitby, Patrick, Lowth, Matthew Henry, Gill, Adam Clarke, Bishop Hall, Wesley.

Particular.-Grotius, Schultens, Walton, Lightfoot, Leighton, Simon, Pococke, Lowth, Michaelis, Kennicott, Blayney, Bishop Percy, Vitringa, Newcome, Schleusner, Kuinoel, Jahn, Brettschneider, Jebb, Suicer, Griesbach, Gesenius, M'Knight, Bishop Horne, Rosenmüller, Ernesti, Castell, Lowman, Turretin, Witsius, Tholuc.

(C.) ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

Socrates, Eusebius, Epiphanius, Sozomen, Theodoret, Gregory of Tours, Bede, Baronius, Budæus, Fox, Davanzati, Vossius, Chemnitz, The Centuriators, Usher, Calixtus, Bossuet, Spanheim, Fuller, Daillé, Stillingfleet, Tillemont, Bull, Burnet, Dupin, Witsius, Strype, Henry, Echard, Collier, Lardner, Jortin, Bingham, Fosbrooke, Beausobre, L'Enfant, Gibbon, Wall, Mosheim, Milner, Lingard, Southey, Gieseler, Neander, Ranke.

(D.) ELEMENTARY COURSE FOR CANDIDATES FOR THE MINISTRY.

1. Biblical Learning.— Horne's Introduction, a general work, covering the whole ground, vols. ii., iii., and iv.

(a.) Grammatical, &c., &c.-Stewart's Hebrew Grammar and Chrestomathy, or Nordheimer's Hebrew Grammar; Gesenius's Lexicon of the Old Testament (translated by Gibbs); Stewart's Grammar of the New Testament; Wahl's Lexicon of the New Testament, translated by Robinson, or the Lexicons of Brettschneider and Schleusner; Septuaginta (Boss or Van Ess), and Schleusner's Septuaginta Lexicon.

(b.) Biblical Hermeneutics.—Marsh's Lectures; Stewart's Ernesti, Morus and Keil's Hermeneutica; Campbell's Dissertations (preliminary to his translation of the Gospels); Planck's Introduction (translated by Professor Turner); Gerard's Institutes; Lowth's Hebrew Poetry; Herder's ditto; Jebb's Sacred Literature.

(c.) Biblical Archæology.-Jahn's Archæology (translated by Upham); Butler's Classical Geography; Robinson's Calmet; Wells's Sacred Geography; 'Harris's Natural History of the Bible; Paxton's Illustrations of Scripture; Harmer's Observations; Pococke's Travels; Modern Traveller; Robinson's Travels, &c., &c.

(d.) Interpretation.—Jahn's Introduction to the Old Testa ment (translated by Turner); Hug's Introduction to the New

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