LYDIAT. 11 where, as a warning against the enthusiastical expectations of the young scholar, he says,. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend; Hear Lydiat's life, and Galilio's end. Wood says, " he was a man possessed of some excellen- cies ; yet he set too high a value on his own performances, and for many years spent an idle and obscure life."+ Echard denominates him " a man of a great soul and incomparable learning, particularly in mathematics, antiquities, languages and divinity ;" and adds, " that he was admired by the greatest scholars of the age."# Kennet styles him " that master of astronomy and mathematics, who, besides his admired works in print, left twenty-two volumes of manu- scripts, as rarities, in the hands of Dr. John Lamphire."§ Mr. Lydiat's remains were interred by the side of his father and mother in the chancel of Okerton church, where a monumental inscription was afterwards erected, of which the following is a translation :11 Sacred to the MEMORY., of THOMAS LYDIAT, rector of Okerton, an accomplisheddivine and mathematician, whose tomb was erected at the expense of New College, Oxford, in memory of so great ascholar. He was born in 1572, and died in 1646. His Woaxs.-1. Tractatus de variis annorum formis, 1605.- 2. Prelectio Astronomica de natura, coeli & conditionibus, element°. rum, 1605.-3. Disquisitio physiologica de origine fontium, 1605.- 4. Defentio tractatus de variis annorum formis contra Josephi Scaligeri objectionem, 1607.-5. Examen Canonum Chronologise IsagogIcorum, 1C97.-16. Explicatio teinporum ad initio mundi hue usque, compendio facta, contra Scaligerum& alMs. 1609.-7. Ex- plicatio & additamentum argumentorum in libello emendationis tem- porurn compendio facts, de nativitate Christi & ministerio in ttrris, 1613.-8. Solis & Luna; periodos, sen annus magma, 1620,-9. De anni solaris mensura Epistola Astronomica, ad Hen. Savilium, 1620.-10. Nutnerus aureus melioribus lapillis insignitus factusq; Gemmeus, &c., 1621.-11. Canones Chronologici, nec non series summorum maoistratourn & triumpborom Romanorum, 1675.- 1.2. Letters to Archbishop Usher, printed in his Life, 1686. Aikin's Lives, p. 408. + Wood's Mist. et Antiq. 1. ii. p. 149. Echard's Hist. of Eng. vol. ii. p. 565. Kennet's Chronicle, p. 764. Wood's Mist. et Antiq. 1. ii. p. 149.
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