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BY

AUTHOR OF "the CANTERBURY PUZZLES: AND OTHER CURIOUS PROBLEMS," ETC.

In Mathematicks he was greater

Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater:

For he, by geometrick scale,

Could take the size of pots of ale;

Resolve, by sines and tangents, straight,

If bread or butter wanted weight;

And wisely tell what hour o' th' day

The clock does strike, by algebra. Hudibras.

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