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, and several more. Switzerland produced Gesner, for that and almost every thing else; Germany had Leopardus, Gruter, Putschius, and others; the Low Countries had Justus Lipsius; England had Sir Henry Savile, every Country had some great Men to keep up its Glory in those things which then were in greatest request. In this last Age Mathematical and Physical Sciences seem to have been the Darling Studies of the Learned Men of Europe; there also the same Emulation has been equally visible. When Great Britain could shew such Men as my Lord Bacon, my Lord Napier, the Inventor of Logarithms, Mr. Harriot, Mr. Oughtred, and Mr. Horrox; Holland had Stevinus, who first found out Decimal Arithmetick, and Snellius; France could reckon up Des Cartes, Mersennus, Fermat, and Gassendi; Italy had Galileo, Torricellius, and Cavallerius; Germany, Kepler; and Denmark, not long before, Tycho Brahe. When afterwards the Philosophers of England grew numerous, and united their Strength, France also took the Hint, and its King set up a Royal Society, to Rival ours. The Duke of Tuscany had set up al-