DIEGO DE TORRES Y VILLAROEL (1696—1759?)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1696 at See also:

• SALAMANCA
• SALAMANCA (anc. Salmantica or Elmantica)

Salamanca, where his See also:

• FATHER

father was bookseller to the university . In his teens Torres escaped to See also:

• PORTUGAL

Portugal where he enlisted under a false name; he next moved to See also:

• MADRID

Madrid, living from See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand to mouth as a See also:

• HAWKER, ROBERT STEPHEN (1803–1874)

hawker; in 1717 he was ordained subdeacon, resumed his studies at Salamanca, and in 1726 became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics at the university . A friend of his having stabbed a See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest, Torres was suspected of complicity, and once more fled to Portugal, where he remained till his innocence was proved . He then returned to his See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair, which he resigned in 1751 to See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act as steward to two noblemen; he was certainly alive in 1758, but the date of his See also:

• DEATH

death is not known . Tones had so slight a smattering of mathematics that his See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment as professor was thought scandalous even in his own scandalous See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age; yet he quickly acquired a See also:

• STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store of knowledge which he displayed with serene assurance . His almanacs, his verses, his farces, his devotional and pseudo-scientific writings show that he possessed the alert B . DE-See also:

• TORRICELLI, EVANGELISTA (1608—1647)

TORRICELLI 61 adaptiveness of the born adventurer; but all that remains of his fourteen volumes (1745—1752) is his autobiography, an amusing See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of cynical effrontery and successful imposture .