[593](From Mr. John Collins, mathematician:—) Sir Charles Cavendish[BV]was borne at ..., the younger brother to William, duke of Newcastle. He was a little, weake, crooked man, and nature having not adapted him for the court nor campe, he betooke himselfe to the study of the mathematiques, wherin he became a great master. His father left him a good estate, the revenue wherof he expended on bookes and on learned men.
He had collected in Italie, France, &c., with no small
chardge, as many manuscript mathematicall bookes as
filled a hoggeshead, which he intended to have printed;
which if he had live
He dyed ... and was buried in the vault of the
family of the duke of Newcastle, at Bolsover, in the
countie of
He is mentioned by Mersennus. Dr. John Pell (who knew him, and made him one of hisXIIjurymen contra Longomontanum) tells me that he writt severall things in mathematiques for his owne pleasure.
Note.[BV]Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'sable, 3 bucks' heads caboshed argent [Cavendish]; quartering, argent, a fess between 3 crescents gules [Ogle], a crescent on the fess point for difference,' with the mottoCavendo tutus.
[BV]Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'sable, 3 bucks' heads caboshed argent [Cavendish]; quartering, argent, a fess between 3 crescents gules [Ogle], a crescent on the fess point for difference,' with the mottoCavendo tutus.
[BV]Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'sable, 3 bucks' heads caboshed argent [Cavendish]; quartering, argent, a fess between 3 crescents gules [Ogle], a crescent on the fess point for difference,' with the mottoCavendo tutus.