16 and 17.

For the case of Priestley, see Weld, History of the Royal Society, vol.ii, p.

56, for the facts and the admirable letter of Priestley upon this rejection.

For Blaer, see his L'Usage des Globes, Amsterdam, 1642.
Nor have efforts to renew the battle in the Protestant Church been wanting in these latter days.

The attempt in the Church of England, in 1864, to fetter science, which was brought to ridicule by Herschel, Bowring, and De Morgan; the assemblage of Lutheran clergy at Berlin, in 1868, to protest against "science falsely so called," are examples of these.