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The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester

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The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester has a reprint added: his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon. A portrait caption names Edward Somerset, Second Marquis of Worcester, born about 1601 and died in April, 1667, with Margaret, his second wife.

The book weighs indirect evidence for the age of Henry Lord Herbert at the time of his marriage, and reasons that, marrying in the year 1600, he would at that time be in his 23rd year. A quoted passage says that, as far as the writer was able to see it, something seemed one of the perpetual motion fallacies, of which kind Caltrop himself, and two or three others, that the writer knows, are labouring at this time in vain. The book says the prejudices created against monopolists in the reign of Queen Elizabeth were not without foundation, in consequence of the absurd rights conceded to patentees of imaginary inventions.

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Henry Dircks

Henry Dircks pursued practical engineering, scientific writing, chemistry, invention, and literary history across an unusually varied career. He worked on railway, canal, and mining projects, later becoming a consulting engineer, and he belonged to several learned societies.