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      Monthly Repository Of Theology And Gener...

      MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .

      No. Ltii. May/ [Volv.

      No . LTII . MAY / [ VoLV .

      History; Biography, &C.

      HISTORY ; BIOGRAPHY , & c .

      Sketch Ofthelilib Of Dr. Caleb Rothsrham...

      SKETCH OFTHELIliB OF DR . CALEB ROTHSRHAM .

      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository ...

      To the Editor of the Monthly Repository

      In the interesting Memoir of the late ever-to-be-honoured Mr . George Walker , prefixed to his u Essays on Various Subjects , " it is recorded , ( p . xvi O that , a when his destination for the

      ministry was finally decided , he was sent , in the latter end of the year , 1749 * to a dissenting academy at Kendal , under the care of Dr . Rotherham ; and that-

      during his residence there , he pur * sued the study of the mathematics with great vigour , ' ' But , in a note , the Biographer expresses his suspicion , that he experienced no very important benefit from his residence there . " This

      suspicion he grounds upon a Letter u written at this time to a fellow - student , ' * describing a quadrant which he had made for himself , in consequence of having seen one belonging to his

      correspondent , in which he says 3 Our good academical tutor thought it not his duly to instruct ttie in this or any other kind of practice , but , as some recom-

      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository ...

      pense for the sums he got from us , filled our brains with a deal of fine speculative knowledge , with - out once showing the several use *

      ful and entertaining purposes , to which these particular branches of learning were adapted . We have learnt plane trigonometry ^ and to measure towers and castles

      upon white paper , without knowing that a quadrant existed but by name . We have learnt spherical trigonometry without the

      convenience of a globe , and witb but a faint idea of the situation of

      the several circles in the various positions of it * We have read philosophy , without being assured that there was a planet in the heavens , unless our faith was

      greater than our experience ; and , lastl y ^ we have studied astronomy , without the knowledge of one star in the firmament / ' He then

      proceeds to describe his quadrant , and the ingenious way in which he had contrived it " for survey , ing , as well as for taking altitudes . " Now , in the first place , Mr .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/1/