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COUNT SVEN LAGERBERG . 683
NOTE 84.
GIOVANNI ALFONSO BORELLI.
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, (Document88,) the author ofthe important
work De motu animalium (Roma, 1680, 1681), was born at Naples
in 1608, and taught first at Messina and afterwards at Pisa as professor
of mathematics. He returned to Messina, but on account of having
been mixed up in some political complications he was obliged to
leave that town. He now went to Rome, where he liked at the Court
of Queen Christina of Sweden. After she was no longer able to
maintain him , he withdrew to a monastery, where he was obliged to
gain a livelihood by giving instruction in mathematics. His character
is described as harsh and abrupt; but by misfortune he became
milder and more sympathetic. He was not only a physiologist and
mathematician, but also a physicist and astronomer. He died in 1679.
NOTE 85.
ROBERT BOYLE.
Robert Boyle, (Document 93,) a celebrated English physicist, re
garded as one of the fathers of modern chemistry. He instituted a
great number of experiments in physics and chemistry, and was the
first who experimented on the chemical composition of air. His
writings are a vast repository of important scientific discoveries and
experiments. Boyle was the seventh son of the Earl of Cork,
and was born in 1627. He died in 1691, and was buried in West
minster Abbey.
NOTE 86.
COUNT SVEN LAGERBERG.
Sven Lagerberg, Baron and Count, at the time mentioned in
Document 99, was confirmed as Senator by King Frederic. He was
born in 1672, and followed Charles XII as lieutenant and captain
in the Russian campaign. While the King was enclosed in Bender,
Lagerberg was sent as ambassador to the Khan in the Crimea, in
order to obtain his assistance against Peter the Great. In 1714, he
became colonel ; and in 1717, major-general. In 1719, he was created
a baron. In 1723, he became president of the Court of Appeals at
Jönköping, and also senator; and in 1731, he was made a count.
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