...mentions in his quiet, amiable way, going to Durdans, in 1665, and finding an assembly of savans — Dr. Wilkins, Sir William Petty, and Mr. Hooke —...man who tried to establish a universal language, and BO nullify the fatal curee of Babel ; Hooke was an astronomer, who was jealous of Newton, and claimed...

...three years afterwards, he acquaints us that he was again at Durdans, where be found Dr. \\ ilk ins, Sir William Petty, and Mr. Hooke, " contriving chariots, new rigging for ships, a wheel to run races in, and other mechanical inventions." He adds, " perhaps three such persons together...

...entry in John Evelyn's Diary, under date 1665, where he says that at Durdans, near Epsom, he found Dr. Wilkins, Sir William Petty, and Mr. Hooke " contriving chariots, new rigging for ships, о wheel to run races in, and other mechanical inventions." E. WALFORD, MA Hyde Park Mansions, NW SAMUEL...

...pestilence, still increasing in London and its environs. On my return, I called at Durdans, where I found Dr. Wilkins, Sir William Petty, and Mr. Hooke, contriving chariots, new rigging for ships, a wheel for one to run races in, and other mechanical inventions ; perhaps three such persons together...

...entry in John Evelyn's Diary, under date 1665, where he says that at Durdans, near Epsom, he found Dr. Wilkins, Sir William Petty, and Mr. Hooke "contriving chariots, new rigging for ships, a wheel to run races in, and other mechanical inventions." E. WALFORD, MA Hyde Park Mansions, NW SAMUEL...

...home at Wotton, called at Durdans, near Epsom, and afterwards noted in his " Diary " that he had found Dr. Wilkins, Sir William Petty, and Mr. Hooke, "contriving chariots, new rigging for ships, a wheele for one to run races in, and other mechanical inventions ; perhaps three such persons together...

...his seat near Epsom, where I have been very merry when I was a little boy." Uurdans, where he found Dr. Wilkins, Sir William Petty and Mr. Hooke, " contriving chariots, new rigging for ships, a wheel to run races in, and other mechanical inventions." He adds that, " perhaps three such persons...

...full of old memorials the place is. Pepys mentions (Sept. 1C, 1060) going to St. James's to see tho Duke of York, on Admiralty business, and finding him...wheel to run races in." He adds: "perhaps three such ALL THE YEAR BOUND. [Conducted by persons together were not found elsewhere in Europe for parts and...

...mentions, in his quiet, amiable way, going to Durdans, in 16G5, and finding an assembly of savans — Dr. Wilkins, Sir William Petty, and Mr. Hooke —...such persons together were not found elsewhere in Em-ope for parts and ingenuity." Wilkins was the man who tried to establish a universal language, and...

...pestilence, still increasing in London and its environs. On my return, I called at Durdans, where I found Dr. Wilkins, Sir William Petty, and Mr. Hooke, contriving chariots, new rigging for ships, a wheel for one to run races in, and other mechanical inventions ; perhaps three such persons together...