The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1909)
Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874, Wiston-Glyn, A. W · Edinburg ; T.N. Foulis · leaf 204
mostremarkable circumstance that has to be recorded about this unobtrusive mansion. Ifwe may believe his own statement, his early progress did credit to his unclesguardianship ; for, when describing his companions as absorbed in the field-sportsof age, he says :— I was employed in a diversion of… … ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND lOI optical secrets, mysteries of natural philosophic, reasons for the variety of colours,the finding out of longitude, the squaring of a circle, and wayes to accomplish alltrigonometrical operations by sines without tangents, with the same compendiousnessof computation ;…
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