LIFE, TIMES,

AND

SCIENTIFIC LABOURS

OF THE SECOND

MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.

TO WHICH IS ADDED, A REPRINT OF HIS

CENTURY OF INVENTIONS,

1663,

with a Commentary thereon,

BY

HENRY DIRCKS, ESQ.,

CIVIL ENGINEER, ETC. ETC.

Inventas aut qui vitam excoluêre per artes.
Quinque sui memores alios fecere merendo.

VIRGIL.

How few men of genius are there who have not been the victims of

misfortune!

SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, BART.

LONDON:

BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY.
1865.