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ROBERT BALFOUR (known also as BALFORE...

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

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