jo6 Ht/lorj of AJhoTiomy for the Year iSod* 



lowed all that I require; and if you find it a bad one, you 

 may do me a great deal of hurt." 



Brother Noel was a tallow-chandler of Amiens, who had 

 become bankrupt; but, having an opportunity of making 

 bimfelf known to the duke de Chaulnes, at his feat in Pi- 

 cardy, he impofed on him by his loquacity, and the duke 

 introduced him at court to exhibit a microfcopc which in 

 all probability he had never made. He got a lodging at the 

 Abbayc; he aflbciated himfelf with Navarre, who was a good 

 optician ; and he propofed to the king to undertake a telefcope, 

 only 1:2 feet in lengthy which fliould have a magnifying power 

 double to the great telefcope of Herfchel. He was afterward? 

 allowed to refide in the hotel de PafTy, near the caftlc of 

 La Muettc, where he laboured till his death, which took 

 place in 1781. 



Rochon, who fuccecdcd him, fent for Caroche, who had 

 already given proofs of his ability, and who, having re- 

 poliflied the mirror, rendered this telefcope as good as that 

 of Merfchel : this Mechain and myfelf proved in 1788. 



The obfervatory will now be as well furnifhcd with inftru- 

 nients as arly in Kurope. 



C. Janvier, a celebrated watch-maker, has prcfcnted to 

 the Inditute a beautiful clock, in which he has reprefented, 

 by new and ingenious means, things difficult to be cxprefTcd 

 in machincry3 fuch as the nodes of the moon, the prcccfiioii 

 of the equinoxes, and the two parts of the equation of time. 

 He prefented alfo, not long ago, another new machine, which 

 contains new inventions for eclipfes, the tides, the fatcllites, 

 the annual parallaxes, the true motion of the heavenly bodies; 

 and where thefe complex movements do no injury to the 

 moving force of the regulating wheels. 



The king of England has given 3000 guineas to Mr. Schroe- 

 tcr, of I/ilienthal, for his inliruments, which in future will be 

 confidered as the property of the univerfity of Gottingen. 



The duke of Gotha has procured for his excellent obferva- 

 tory a three-feet circle made by Troughton, who in that line 

 vies with Ramfden : this circle coll: 10,000 francs. He has 

 befpoke a large fe6lor for making oblervations in' the zenith, 

 and a telefcope of i6 feet from Mr, Schr(£tcr. He has car- 



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