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Joshua Barnes FRS (10 January 1654 – 3 August 1712), was an English scholar. His work ''Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies'' (1675) was an Utopian romance.〔LeTellier (1997), p. 186〕 ==Life and work== He was born in London, the son of Edward Barnes, a merchant taylor. Educated at Christ's Hospital and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was in 1695 chosen Regius Professor of Greek, a language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility. One of his first publications was entitled ''Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies'' (1675), a whimsical sketch to which Swift's ''Voyage to Lilliput'' possibly owes something. Among his other works are a ''History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward III'' (1688), an epic work numbering 900+ pages, in which he introduces long and elaborate speeches into the narrative; editions of Euripides (1694) and of Homer (1711), also one of Anacreon (1705) which contains titles of Greek verses of his own which he hoped to publish. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November, 1710.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Library and Archive Catalogue )〕 He died on 3 August 1712, at Hemingford, near St Ives, Huntingdonshire. He had married Mrs Mason, a widow, of Hemingford 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joshua Barnes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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