Note 1309 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
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An eminent mathematician.—Pope.
He was born in France in 1667. Driven from his native country in 1685 by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he settled in London, and died there in 1754. He got his living mainly by teaching mathematics, in which his skill was consummate, and his publications on the subject attest the acuteness and originality of his genius. He was on terms of friendship with Newton.