Chapter VI: NICOLAS BERNOULLI (1687-1759), cousin of the three preceding, and

son of Nicolas Bernoulli, one of the senators of Basel, was born in that city on the 10th of October 1687. He visited England, where he was kindly received by Sir Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley (_Com. Phil._ ep. 199), held for a time the mathematical chair at Padua, and was successively professor of logic and of law at Basel, where he died on the 29th of November 1759. He was editor of the _Ars Conjectandi_ of his uncle Jacques. His own works are contained in the _Acta Eruditorum_, the _Giornale de' letterati d' Italia_, and the _Commercium Philosophicum_.