Peter's prophecy, or, The president and poet, or, An important epistle to Sir J. Banks, on the approaching election of a president of the Royal Society. With an etching by an eminent artist / by Peter Pindar [pseud.].

  • Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Date:
1788
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Credit: Peter's prophecy, or, The president and poet, or, An important epistle to Sir J. Banks, on the approaching election of a president of the Royal Society. With an etching by an eminent artist / by Peter Pindar [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Think of the men, whom Science fo reveres! Horsley, and Wilson, Maskelyne, Maseres, Landen, and Hornsby, Atwood, Glenie, Hutton, SIR JOSEPH. Blockheads! for whom I do not care a button! Fools, who to mathematics would confine us, And bother all our ears with plus and minus,- PETEK. No more they fearch the philofophic mine, To bid the journals with their labours fliine,,, And yield a glorious fplendor to the page. Such as when Newton, Halley grac’d the age ! Retir’d, thofe members now behold with fighs The dome, like Egypt, fwarm with frogs and flies; And jrw,.the Pharaoh too without remorfe, The ftubborn parent of the reptile curfe; See