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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 255 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT BALFOUR (known also as BALFOREUS) (1550?-1625?)  , Scottish philosopher, was educated at St Andrews and the university of Paris . He was for many years
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principal of the
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Guienne College at
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Bordeaux . His
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great
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work is his Commentarii in Organum Logicum Aristotelis (Bordeaux, 1618); the copy in the
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British Museum contains a number of highly-eulogistic poems in honour of Balfour, who is described as Graium aemulus acer . Balfour was one of the scholars who contributed to spread over
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Europe the fame of the praefervidum ingenium Scotorum . His contemporary, Dempster, called him the " phoenix of his age, a philosopher profoundly skilled in the Greek and Latin
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languages, and a mathematician worthy of being compared with the ancients." His Cleomedis
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meteora, with notes and Latin
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translation, was reprinted at
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Leiden as
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late as 182o . See Dempster, Historia Ecclesiastica Gent . Scotorum; Irving's Lives of the Scottish Writers; Anderson's Scottish Nation, i . 217 .

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