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 Sr. Iaac was elected a fellow of the college; & also made Lucaian professor of mathematics; wherein he succeeded his tutor Dr. Barrow. then he put out a new edition of that curious piece, Varenius's geography. the method of that author plead him; it is like his own. his chambers in Trinity college were thoe in the great court, on the north ide, between the maters lodg, & the chapel.

Dr. Newton of Grantham aforemention'd was izor to Sr. Iaac; lived under his tuition 5 years: was asitant to him particularly in his chymical operations, wh he puru'd many years. he often admir'd Sr. Iaac's patience in his experiments, & operations; & his extreme accuracy; how crupulously nice he was in weighing his materials: & that his fires were almot perpetual. in the year 1705 & 6, when I was at CC College, I went a coure of chymical lectures with Seignior Vigani, in Sr. Iaac's room, where he made his chymical operations, being backward, towards the maters lodg.

Dr. Newton says, that all the time, he was with him, he carce ever oberv'd him to laugh; but once: he remembers, it was on this occaion. he akd a frd to whom he had lent an Euclid to read, what progres he had made in that author? & how he liked it? he anwerd by deiring to know what ue, & benefit in life, that kind of tudy would be to him? upon which Sr. Iaac was very merry.