A 



JOURNAL 



OF 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



THE ARTS, 



JANUARY, I809. 



ARTICLE I. 



An account of a Goniometer invented by the Rev. E. J. Bur- 

 row, A- M; Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge. 



To Mr, NICHOLSON. 

 SIR, Walthamstow, Dec. 6th, 1808. 



OHOULD you think the following account, accompanied New g 0n i ome . 

 by a drawing, of a goniometer made by Mr. Harris of Hoi- ter 

 born, under my directions, upon, I believe, a new principle, 

 at all worthy of a place in your Journal, by inserting it you 

 will oblige 



Your obedient servant, 



E. J. BURROW. 



B G, Plate I, fig. 1, is a steel bar of about T \ of an inch descr it, e d. 

 square, chamfered off to the point B. On B G is taken 

 exactly an inch, B A, and A is made the centre of motion 

 of the legs D E and de, of which D E is also brought to a 

 point at D to correspond with B. To the other end of these 



Yol. XXII. No, 96— Jan. I809. B legs 



