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The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six.

  • Six, James, 1731-1793.
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Happy it was that his mind was open to the confolations of religion, when afflited with the lofs of an only fon, whofe virtues and accomplifhments anfwered his fondeft wifhes ; who in his twenty-ninth year died, and was interred in Italy. It need not therefore be told with what exemplary for-— titude and refignation he fupported that moft fevere inflidion; nor can the merit of his amiable fon derive any additional luftre from the attempt of a feeble, and it may be faid, a partial encomiaft. Suffice it to refer to a flight account of him given in the * Obituary of the Gentleman’s Ma- zine * ¢ At Rome, JAMEs S1x,M. A. Fellow of Trinity Colleze, Cam- bridge. He was a young man of great natural abilities, and of exten- five learning. He underfteod the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and German languages, and in moft, if not all of them, had a well-grounded and accurate knowledge: of his claffical and mathe- matical learning, the feveral prizes which he obtained during the courfe of his academical fudies, are an eminent and honourable proof. Two beautiful odes (vol. LIV. p. 285, 286,) tranflated from the German, give no mean idea of'his poetical powers; and, as a draughtfman, his defigns were executed with wonderful neatnefs and elegance. To thefe accomplifhments, which adorn fociety, he added a fweetnefs of manners, and a benevolence of difpofition, that endeared him to his family and friends, and gained him, wherefoever he went, attention and cReem. THe was buried at Rome [fee p. 72], in a place appro- priated