Excerpt from The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art, 1861: Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements of the Past Year; In Mechanics and the Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Electricity, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany, Geology and Mineralogy, Meteorology and Astronomy In the second number, Brougham wrote a paper on Kepler's celebrated Pro blem, which he was led to after the discovery ofthe law which bears his name. In 1807, Brougham removed from. Edinburgh to London, where he qualified himself for the English bar. The reasons of this change were various. For one thing, as may be learnt from Lord Cockburn's account of the discouragements under which Scottish Whiggism then laboured in Edinburgh, and particularly within the precincts of the Parliament House' or Supreme Courts of Law, the prospects of a young Whig lawyer in Scotland cannot have been very brilliant. It is said, however, that a visit to London in 1807 in order to plead before the House of Lords in a case respecting the succession to the Scottish dukedom of Roxburghe, was the immediate cause of his resolution to come permanently to England. At all events, in 1808, when he was in his twenty-ninth year, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and began to practise as an English barrister at the Court of King's Bench and on the northern circuit. 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.