Sir Thomas Urquhart was a Cavalier knight, a soldier at Worcester, the author of works on trigonometry, a universal language and the glorious life of the Admirable Crichton, and a genealogist who traced his family back to Adam. Above all he was the translator of Rabelais. Willcock gathers what is known of his strange life.
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