[1056]Mr. Thomas Hariot[EL]—from Dr. John Pell, March 31, 1680. Dr. Pell knowes not what countreyman[1057]he was (but an Englishman he was)—[There[1058]is a place in Kentcalled Harriot's-ham, now my lord Wotton's[EM]; and in Wostershire in the parish of Droytwich is a fine seat called Harriots, late the seate of Chiefe Baron Wyld.]
He thinkes he dyed about the time he (Dr. Pell) went to Cambridge. He sayes my lord John Vaughan can enforme me, and haz a copie of his will: which vide.
[1059]Mr. Thomas Hariot—Mr. Elias Ashmole thinkes he
was a Lancashire man: Mr.
[1060]☞ I very much desire to find his buriall: he was not buryed in the Tower chapelle.
[1061]Mr. Thomas Harriot[1062]:—Memorandum:—Sir Robert Moray (from Francis Stuart[1063]), declared at the Royal Society—'twas when the comet[1064]appeared before the Dutch warre—that Sir Francis had heard Mr. Harriot say that he had seen nine cometes, and had predicted seaven of them, but did not tell them how. 'Tis very strange: excogitent astronomi.
[1065]Mr. Hariot went with Sir Walter Ralegh into Virginia, and haz writt the Description of Virginia, which is printed.
Dr. Pell tells me that he finds amongst his papers (which are now, 1684, in Dr. Busby's hands), an alphabet that he had contrived for the American language, like Devills[1066].
He wrote a Description of Virginia, which is since printed in Mr. Purchas's Pilgrims.
Vide Mr. Glanvill's Moderne Improvement of Usefull Knowledge, where he makes mention of Mr. Thomas Harriot, pag. 33.
When
[LXXV.]Robert Hues was buried in Xt. Ch. Oxon.
[LXXV.]Robert Hues was buried in Xt. Ch. Oxon.
He was a great acquaintance of Master ... Ailesbury, to whom Dr. Corbet sent a letter in verse, Dec. 9, 1618, when the great blazing starre appeared,—
'Now for the peace of God and men advise,(Thou that hast wherwithall to make us wise),Thine owne rich studies and deepe Harriot's mine,In which there is no drosse but all refine.'
'Now for the peace of God and men advise,(Thou that hast wherwithall to make us wise),Thine owne rich studies and deepe Harriot's mine,In which there is no drosse but all refine.'
The bishop of Sarum (Seth Ward) told me that one Mr. Haggar (a countryman of his), a gentleman and good mathematician, was well acquainted with Mr. Thomas Hariot, and was wont to say, that he did not like (or valued not) the old storie of the Creation of the World. He could not beleeve the old position; he would sayex nihilo nihil fit. But sayd Mr. Haggar, anihilumkilled him at last: for in the top of his nose came a little red speck (exceeding small), which grew bigger and bigger, and at last killed him. I suppose it was that which the chirurgians call anoli me tangere.
[1068]Mr. Hariot dyed of an ulcer in his lippe or tongue—vide Dr. Read's Chirurgery, where he mentions him as his patient, in the treatise of ulcers (or cancers).
The Workes of Dr. Alexander Reade, printed, London, 1650; in the treatise of Ulcers, p. 248. 'Cancrous ulcers (ozana) also seise on this part. This griefe hastened the end of that famous mathematician Mr. Hariot with whom I was acquainted but short time before his death; whomat one time, together with Mr. Hughes (who wrote of the globes), Mr. Warner, and Mr. Torporley, the noble earle of Northumberland, the favourer of all good learning and Maecenas of learned men, maintained while he was in the Tower, for their worth and various literature.'
He made a philosophicall theologie, wherin he castoff the Old Testament, and then the New one would (consequently) have no foundation. He was a Deist. His doctrine he taught to Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry, earle of Northumberland, and some others. The divines of those times look't on his manner of death as a judgement upon him for nullifying the Scripture.
Ex Catalogo librorum impressorum bibl. Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi, Oxon.,MDCLXXIV:—
Thomas Hariot:—Historia Virginiae, cum iconibus, Lat. per C. C. A. edita per Th. de Bry,Franc.1590 (A. 8. 7.Art).
—Same in English,Lond.1588 (E. 1. 25.Art. Seld.).
Thomas Hariotus:—Artis analyticae praxis ad aequationes Algebraicas resolvendas,Lond.1631 (F. 2. 12.Art. Seld.).
Notes.[EL]Aubrey gives the coat:—'per pale, ermine and ermines, 3 crescents counterchanged [Hariot].'[EM]Charles Henry Kirckhoven, created baron Wotton, Aug. 31, 1650; created earl of Bellomont, Feb. 11, 1679/80.
[EL]Aubrey gives the coat:—'per pale, ermine and ermines, 3 crescents counterchanged [Hariot].'
[EL]Aubrey gives the coat:—'per pale, ermine and ermines, 3 crescents counterchanged [Hariot].'
[EM]Charles Henry Kirckhoven, created baron Wotton, Aug. 31, 1650; created earl of Bellomont, Feb. 11, 1679/80.
[EM]Charles Henry Kirckhoven, created baron Wotton, Aug. 31, 1650; created earl of Bellomont, Feb. 11, 1679/80.