VARENIUS (Bernard)

, a learned Dutch geographer and physician, of the last century, who was author of the best mathematical treatise on Geography, intitled, Geographia Universalis, in qua affectiones generalis Telluris explicantur. This excellent work has been translated into all languages, and was honoured by an edition, with improvements, by Sir Isaac Newton, for the use of his academical students at Cambridge.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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VARIGNON (Peter)
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