Note FR — THE 'LIVES' (continued 6)
Reading edition
(P. 332.) In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1v, is this note:—'Dr. <John> Pell says that for a man to begin to study mathematics at 40 yeares old, 'tis as if one should at that age learne to play on the lute—applicable to Mr. Thomas Hobbes. Vide vitam Jonae Moore.'