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Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the barricades and carried them.This action v/as spouen of in the highest termsby the king, Lewis XIII., before the duke ofSavoy and a numerous court. Pagan was pre-sent wlien the king in 1633 formed the siege ofNanci, anil traced the lines and torts of circum-vallation. In 1642 he was sent into Portugal inquality of field-marshal, and there lost his othereye. Having from his youth closely applied tomathematical studies, with a particular view tothe science of fortification, now that he was dis-abled from serving his country in the field he em-ployed the whole force of his active mind in spe-culations of this kind ; and in 1645 produced his Traite des Fortifications, which passed forthe best work that had hitherto been publishedon that subject. It was followed by his Theo-remes Geometriqucs, i6;i; Theorie desPlanetes, 1657; and Tables A.stroncniiques,1658 ; in all of which he showed limseh a veryable mathematician. He also published in 1655an Historical and Geographical Account of the
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P A G ( 581 ) P A G River of i\mazons, extracted from differentWriters. He was not entirely free from thedelusion of judicial astrology, and wliat liewrote on this subject is the only blot upon hisscientific character. With a high reputationfor knowledge and worth, and possessed of theesteem of his sovereign and the court, he diedat Paris in i66i, at the age of sixty-one. Per-rault Howmes llliist. Aloreri.—A. PAGI, Anthony, a l-rench Franciscanmonk of the class of friars-minors, commonlycalled cordelier?, and a very able ecclesiasticalhistorian and clironologer in the seventeeiitlicentury, was born at Rognes, a small townnear . ix in Provence, in the year i(>24. Heembraced the monastic lite in a convent atAries, in the year 1641, and, after goingthrough the usual courses of philosophy andtlivinity, officiated for some time as preacher,with great acceptaliility. He was also muchoccupied in the confessional, and was fourtimes elected provincial of his order. 1 heseemployments, howe

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