CHARACTERS difpofed in different CLASSES, and
adapted to a METHODICAL CATALOGUE of Engraved
BRITISH HEADS.

INTENDED AS

An ESSAY towards reducing our BIOGRAPHY to SYSTEM,
and a Help to the Knowledge of PORTRAITS.

INTERSPERSED WITH

Variety of ANECDOTES, and MEMOIRS of a great Number of PERSons,
not to be found in any other Biographical Work.

With a PREFACE, fhewing the Utility of a Collection of ENGRAVED PORTRAITS
to fupply the Defect, and anfwer the various Purposes, of MEDALS.

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By the Rev. J. GRANGER, Vicar of Shiplake, in Oxfordshire.

Printed for T. DAVIES, in Ruffel-Street, Covent-Garden. 1769.

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CLASS IX.

MEN of GENIUS and LEARNING.

PHYSICIANS.

R. SCARBOROUGH; Vandergucht fc. In the oc-
tavo edition of Cowley's Works.

1669.

Sir Charles Scarborough, first physician to Charles II. Knighted James II. and William III. was, by his ftrong and lively 15 Aug. parts, uncommon learning, and extenfive practice, eminently qualified for that honourable station. He was one of the greatest mathematicians of his time. Mr. Oughtred informs us, that his memory was tenacious to an incredible degree; that he could recite in order all the propofitions of Euclid, Archimedes, and other ancient mathematicians, and apply them on every occafion *. He

* Preface to the third edition of the "Clavis Mathematica." VOL. II. Part 2.

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