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Notes
Thanks are expressed to the Trustees of the British Museum and to the Council of the Royal Society for permission to quote from the manuscripts referred to in this article.
The works of that eminent and learned lawyer, Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Advocate to King Charles II and King James VII, vol. I (Edinburgh, 1716), p. 65 (Chapter XIII of The Virtuoso, or Stoic: 'Of the immortality of the soul'). The Virtuoso was apparently not published separately, nor were Mackenzie's Works reprinted.
Chap. VIII: Wednesday, September 15, 1773. Cited by R. W. Chapman, 'The textual criticism of English classics,' in Phyllis M. Jones, English critical essays, twentieth century (1933), p. 272.
R. B. McKerrow, 'The relationship of English printed books to authors' manuscripts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries' (Sandars Lecture in Bibliography, 1928; Br. Mus. Addl. MS. 41998).
A representative collection of such passages, from Locke to Dylan Thomas, has formed the annual exhibition of the Grolier Club of New York. See the T. L. S. notice (30 December, 1955).
'Sir Christopher Wren and natural philosophy,' Notes and records of the Royal Society, XIII (1958), 19-37.
R. K. Bluhm, 'A guide to the archives of the Royal Society and to other manuscripts in its possession,' ibid., XII (1956), 21-39, supplemented by H. W. Jones, art. cit., 22-25.
'Illarum [sc. eclipses] per multa retro sæcula Observationes' (183; MSS, 'Observatione'); '. . . Primam enim, quam visu assequi possumus, luminis diminutionem . . . mox insequitur perfecta ejus extinctio' (188; HRS 3 alters unnecessarily to 'primum . . . quum'); 'Defectus Medicæorum observatu faciliores reddant 1. major Planetarum claritas. 2. Motus ipsorum tardior' (185; MSS, doubtlessly correctly, 'reddunt'); and 'Molestum autem in observando tædium, summa Tηρησεων αΚριβεια abunde compensabit, idemque plurimum minuit sociorum mutuas operas tradentium, ubi suppetit præsentia' [sc. 'as and when their presence is available'; 188, where, again, the 'minuet' and 'suppetet' of the manuscripts seem preferable].
'. . . Tempus quadrimestre, a sextili priori usque ad ipsa ferè Acronychia numerandum, utrique Satelliti Observando erit unice opportunum: Penextimo autem soli, insuper trimestre' (187); CP agrees with Reg. 'Penextimo'; HRS 'Penextimi' gives sense. 'Methodus. . . observatarum seriei innititur: inde enim, Polorum elevatione solum præcognitâ, certissima innotescet Globi Lunaris à Terrestri distantia' (188); CP has 'seriei', HRS, 'series', changed to 'serie' in the third edition; and CP reads 'innotescet' as against 'innotescit' of HRS: cf. 'minuit', n. 11.
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