Excerpt from The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art: May to August, 1851 Englishman of nearly his own age, - the young Duke of Kingston, - whose tutor. A man of great learning. Inspired him with a taste for science. In their company he travelled through the greater portion of France and Italy, and afterwards passed a few months in England. Buti'on's literary career began with a series of translations. On his return to his native country, be translated into French two English works, the Vegetable Statics of Dr. Hales, and Newton's Treatise on Flux ions. These translations, and the prefaces which he adjoined thereto, were the first essays which, as it were, revealed him to himself for from this time forth he quitted not the path of research into which his genius had led him. He wrote successively several papers upon geometry, physics, and rural economy, which opened for him the doors of the Academic des Sciences, into which body he was elected at the age of six-and-twenty: still, it is true, a mere youth as regards length of days, but young as he was, and in the infancy only of his genius, men whose hair had grown gray in study already re garded him as their brother. In the year 1739 he was appointed intendant of the Jar din des Plantes, then termed the J ardin du Roi, and from that hour commenced this great life, and this new glory of the union of eloquence with science, of which, until then, France had been utterly ignorant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.