Saturday, July 7, 1821

1821

July

Saturday 7

7

12 10/60

I have done very little at Mathematics for a long while.  There are the following dates on my slate – Begin Hutton’s Geometry Volume 1, Tuesday 1 May – Thursday 10, theorem 34 – Tuesday 22, theorem 55. – Friday 25, theorem 61.  Wednesday 6 June, Ratios and proportions, page 309.  Thursday 7 June, theorem 82, page 317. Since this last date, I have done nothing at Hutton but I am resolved to make up for it as well as I can –

I have sometimes thought I made no progress in mathematics and that my time was wasted over them; yet I have felt unhappy at neglecting, and my mind wants something more than Herodotus, something more scientific than the mere study of language and history – The latter is but amusement, and I am not satisfied without something more philosophical –

Wrote the above.  Read over carefully from page 265 to 317, volume 1, Hutton all the definitions, all the propositions (without the demonstrations) and all the corollaries, and did theorems 82 and 83, which took me from 7 50/60 to 9 –

Came upstairs at 10 3/4 – Looking at Number 9, Edinburgh Philosophical Journal –

From 11 20/60 to 3 1/2, read only from chapter 50 to 63 (5 1/2 pages) Terpsichore, Herodotus, and afterwards from page 414 to 429, volume 2, Beloe’s translation; but made many notes, and was besides interrupted 1/4 hour by my aunt’s coming up about the new curtains for the bed –

I now begin to get on with Herodotus with ease and pleasure, and by and by, I think, shall read Greek as well as Latin –

My head is nearly quite right again today – This morning and the 2 last, I have taken very little, not more than 1/3 my usual breakfast, only 1 cup of tea and a glass of cold water, and this seems to agree with me –

Till 5 1/2, making references in my ‘Notes and Observations from Beloe etc. on Herodotus’ to all the notes I have written out in Extract, Volume D, and besides this, made an additional extract or 2; –

And then went downstairs and read the first 48 pages of Sir Humphry Davy’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry –

In the evening about an hour in the library, looking over Sir Thomas Browne’s Vulgar Errors, which I find a curious work, and shall turn to it again –

In the morning, threatening rain.  It came on gently between 5 and 6 for about an hour, and afterwards continued most of the evening.  Barometer 1 1/4 degree above changeable.  Fahrenheit 55° at 9 1/2 p.m. –

Came upstairs at 10 3/4 – Looking at the latter part of Beloe’s notes on Herodotus liber 4 (Terpsichore), at Cicero, and afterwards, read the article on the Guebres or fireworshippers in No. 9, Edinburgh Philosophical Journal –


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