jo8 Hi/Ioiy of A/Ironoiny for the Year i8oo. 



with that of Swabia, coiiftru6l;ed on the fame fcale by 

 MeflVs. Bohnenberger and Amman. 



M. Delecoq is conftru6ling one of Weftphalia: that of 

 the Netherlands, on the fame fcale, has been finifhed : thus 

 the example of the French has become fruitful, and even 

 the Engliih are preparing to follow it. 



The Academy of Stockholm has fent M. Svanberg to 

 Tornea to examine the ftatjons where the French academi- 

 cians carried on their operations in 173,$, for meafuring a 

 degree of the meridian. As this degree feems to be too. 

 large, feme errors are fuppofed to have taken place ; and a 

 defign is in agitation for re-mcafuring it. As fenfible irre- 

 gularities have been founcl in the degrees of the meridian 

 between Dunkirk and Barcelona, it would not be furprifmg. 

 that there (liould be fome at the 66th degree of latitude. 



The king of Denmark has eftablifhed a board of longitude, 

 of which profeflbr Bugge is director, with two afliltapts. 

 This eftabliiliment was chiefly owing to M. Lowenhorn. 

 Ephemerides for 1803 are going to be calculated, which 

 will contain the diftance of the moon from the planets. 

 M. Wurbierg gives lectures there on aftronomy ; and pupils 

 are now inftrufting, in order to be fent to Iceland to form a 

 piap of that country. 



M. Von Zach, who every year, in autumn, makes a geo- 

 graphical and aftronomical tour through Germany, has de- 

 termined the pofition of Brunfwick to be 53° 15 ' 43'^ and 

 32^37'' eaft of Paris. 



At Zell, in the duchy of Lunebourg, M. Von Ende^, coun- 

 fellorof the fupreme court of appeal at Hanover, who pof- 

 feflTes a well furnifhcd obfcrvatory, has determined its pofi- 

 tion to he 520 37' 47'' and 3c/ 5''. 



M. Olbers, at Bremen^ has determined that city to be 

 33° 4' 37^' and 25' 4 8^^ He is more and more confirmed 

 Jn opinion that the place of the moon may be determined 

 within 5 or 6" by a fextant of 9 inches as well as with the 

 beft: infl.ruments. Bremen, which is a large free hanfe-town_, 

 has enabled M. Olbers, in confequence of his zeal, to form 

 an aflbciation of opulent people arid merchants, who have 

 * ' • ' eftablifiied 



