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qualilies, iu which he participated with his brother Gregory 

 Fontana. 



His obsequies were celebrated with great solemnltv iu his 

 parish : his body was opened before the most celebrated 

 professors, and the features of his face were taken off bv a. 

 plaster cast. His remains were deposited in a leaden coffin^ 

 with the principal circumstances of his life written on parch- 

 ment inclosed in a metal tube closely soldered. This cotSn, 

 put into another of fir, was interred three davs after under 

 the public chapel of the noviciate of the mnior conventual 

 brothers of Sainte-Croix, close to the ashes of Galileo and 

 Viviani, Michael Angelo and Machiavcl. One of his ex- 

 ecutors, M. Petter FeiToni, a celebrated mathematican, will 

 make known to the republic of letters the valuable manu- 

 scripts left by this eminent philosopher, as well as those of 

 Gregory Fontana, found among his philosophical collec- 

 tions. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



Richard Jubb, of Bridge-row, in the parish of St. Georj^e, 

 Hanover-square, in the county of Middlesex, whitesmith; 

 for iniproveinents in making and tuning the musical instru- 

 ment called the pedal harp, bv which the half-quarter note 

 is produced thereon with peculiar sweetness and harmonv; 

 and the further addition of an harmonic stop made thereto ; 

 and also certain improvements in tuning the violin and other 

 stringed instruments. 



Barrodal! Robert Dodd, of Change-alley, in tht- city of 

 London, civil engineer ; for various improvements in the 

 construction of fire-places, and adapting stoves and grates 

 thereto. 



Joseph Bramah, of Pimllco, iu the county of Middlesex, 

 engineer; for sundry improvements in the' art of making 

 paper. 



Thomas Rov.ntrce, of the parish of Christ Church, in 

 the county of Surrey, engine-maker; for an axletree anJ 

 box for carriages on au improved plan. 



Charles Hobson, of Sheffield, in the county of York, 

 plater, and Charles Silvester, of the same place, chemist ; 

 for a method of manufacturing the metal called zinc into 

 i*ire, and into vessels and utensils fur culinary and oiher 

 pyrposcs. 



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