PLINY.

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From the library of, and annotated by, Bartholomew Dodington (1535-95), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge (1562-85) of Trinity College, previously a fellow of St John s. He edited Demosthenes in 1571, and wrote orations for Elizabeth I s visit at the university in 1561. The remaining names illustrate how university textbooks circulated for years or even decades among the student community. William Brocke, from Staffordshire, and Edward Hancock, from Devon, who gave him the book, both matriculated at Trinity in 1578; Brocke signed himself et Amicorum , suggesting he circulated the book among his fellow students. An Edward Griffin matriculated at King s in 1588. Several William Cooks are present in the 1570s-80s, perhaps some of Dodington s students.. . ..Dodington was interested in a variety of passages, many of them relating to the natural world, e.g., stars, longitude, or meteorology. He also referenced other authors, such as Aristotle. A note mentions what may be a reference to an epistolary interpretation and emendation by Critton, apparently dated June 14. This is likely the Scottish philologist George Crichton (1555-1611), professor at the Royal College of France from 1590. A late C17 ms note points to Edward Halley s article Emendationes Notae in Tria Loca Vitiose Edita in Textu Vulgato Naturalis Historiae C. Plinii , published in the transactions of the Royal Society in 1686, thanks to D.J. Hoskyns. In that article, Halley applied the saros , a Chaldaean astronomi

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