The discovery of a general resolution of all superior finite equations,
of every numerical both algebraick and transcendent form. By A. P.
Vogel,[761] mathematician at Leipzick. Leipzick and London, 1845, 8vo.
This work is written in the English of a German who has not mastered the
idiom: but it is always intelligible. It professes to solve equations of
every degree "in a more extent sense, and till to every degree of
exactness." The general solution of equations of _all_ degrees is a vexed
question, which cannot have the mysterious interest of the circle problem,
and is of a comparatively modern date.[762] Mr. Vogel {374} announces a
forthcoming treatise in which are resolved the "last impossibilities of
pure mathematics."
Elective Polarity the Universal Agent. By Frances Barbara Burton,
authoress of 'Astronomy familiarized,' 'Physical Astronomy,' &c.
London, 1845, 8vo.[763]
The title gives a notion of the theory. The first sentence states, that
12,500 years ago [alpha] Lyrae was the pole-star, and attributes the immense
magnitude of the now fossil animals to a star of such "polaric intensity as
Vega pouring its magnetic streams through our planet." Miss Burton was a
lady of property, and of very respectable acquirements, especially in
Hebrew; she was eccentric in all things.
1867.--Miss Burton is revived by the writer of a book on meteorology which
makes use of the planets: she is one of his leading minds.[764]