AJlronomy, 37 1 



refided among them ? Are there anv traces of this deity ftill 

 remaining? 'The prize is a fitver medal. The anl'vvers, writ- 

 ten in Dutch, Latin, or French, muli: be tranhnittedj polt 

 paid, to A. Dryfhout, of Middleburg, before the ili of Ja- 

 nuary 1803. 



LXIII. Intelligence and M'lfcellaneous Articles, 



ASTRONOMY. 



J.N our lall we mentioned Dr. Olbers's difcovery of a new 

 celeftial body, and laid before our readers its obferved places 

 on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of March, and on the ifl of 

 April. 



In the fciences, when a way is once opened to orrcat and 

 important difcoverics, it fometimes happens that they fooa 

 follow each other in fucceffion. It is now only about twenty 

 years fince the celebrated Dr. Herfchel made a difcovery of 

 which we have no previous indance in hiftory, viz. of a new 

 primary planet. On the i(l of January 1801 another was dif- 

 covered by Piazzi ; and a year after, a third new one has excited 

 thecuriofitA- of the public. On the 28th of March an account 

 was publifhedin the Reichfazciger, No. 98, that Dr. Olbers, 

 of Bremen, cfjually celebrated as a phyfician and an aftro- 

 iiomer, had been fo fortunate as to obferve a niovino- ftar iu 

 the north wing of Virgo, perfeftly fimilar in its form and 

 light to the Ceres Ferdinandea; fcarcely dirtinguiOiable from 

 a fixed liar of the fevcnth magnitude; without any nebu- 

 lofity, and retrograde like Ceres, but increafing much more 

 in its northern declination. After ol)ferviiig this dar for 

 three days, and afccrtaining that it had a motion peculiar to 

 itiijlf, he fent notice of his difcovery to Baron von Zach, of 

 Gotha, The latter immediately found this fmall (lar, ob- 

 ferved it on the 4th and 5th of April at the obfervatory of 

 Scebcrg, and found Dr. Olbers's obfcrvations confirmed in 

 ihe. fulleft manner. This flar, to which he was inclined to 

 give tlie \\[\xm'.oi Pallas in order todillinguifli it from Qvvy, 

 appeared to iiim to be fome\vl)at Icfs bright than the latter. 

 Mr. .Schrutcr, of Lilienthal, who, in coniequence of the in- 

 formation communicated to him by Dr. Olbers, obferved 

 this (lar with his 13 feet tclefcopc, confiders il lo be Ibnie- 

 what larger and better defined than Ct're>;: its diameter he 

 eftiniatcs at 4I feconds, whereas that of Ceres is only 4. 

 I'ul the obfervalioni made by Dr. Olbers and 13<iron voii 

 i^ a a Zaeli 



