The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 227
um, the following fact will be sufficient. In 1706,while the seige of Turin Was pending, Vauban, then amarechal of France, offered to serve as engineer, underthe Duke de la Feuillade, who had, in derision, rejectedhis advice. The king represented to him, that his dignityas a marechal would not… … , AMERICUS VESPUTIUS. Americus Vesputius was descended from an an-cient family of Florence. He was born in the year1451 ; and his mind had scarcely developed itself, whenhe displayed a decided inclination for physics and themathematics. To these studies he devoted himself with-out reserve. Animated…
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