80 SfclENTlFIC NEWS. 



In the accompliflimeni of this obje6l he has exceeded his 

 firfi intention, and has not only given clear, and rather com- 

 prehenfive inftru6lions for analyfing all tlie different genera, 

 and principal fpecies of the bodies mentioned in the title, and 

 commonly met with, but has alfo given examples of analyfis 

 of the rarer or lefs abundant mineral bodies. 



Bofluf 8 hlftory j General Hiftory of Mathematics, from the earlieft Times, to 

 <»f mathematics, »^- i j, . , Vr.- , i ^ -r. j /• . 



the Ml dak oj the Eighteenth Century, Iranjlated from t/te 



French of John Bojfut, Member of the French National Injii' 



tuie of Arts and Sciences, and qf the Academies of Bolos,na, 



Peterfburg, Turin, SfC. To which is affixed, a Chronological 



Table of themoji eminent Mathematicians, S-co. 566. p. Lon^ 



don, I SOS, One Vol. Oaavo. 



THIS juftly efteemed work is well tranflated under the in- 



fpe61i()n of Mr. Konnycaftle, of the Royal Military Academy 



at Woolwich, who has added an inlrodudory Preface, and the 



Table mentioned in the Title Paoje. 



