210 Hyiory of AJlronomy for the Year i8o2. 



The third volume of the MUahique C'elefle of C. Dela- 

 pl;ice has been printed, anil was publifhed on the 29th of 

 December. This work will form an epoch in phyfical aftro- 

 nomy. It exhibits a feries of important refearches by that 

 great a;eometrican, and the perturbations of each of the pla- 

 nets by the aftion of all the red; with a new theory of the 

 moon, containing, betides other things, the difcovery of a 

 new inequality the period of which is 180 years, and of which 

 I have already fpoken. 



M. Hallenfratz has publiflied his Cours de Phyfique Ce^ 

 lefle, or Lemons fur I'ExpoJiUon du Syjiime du Monde. He 

 makes no mention in it of my Aftronomy, but he neverthe- 

 Icfs has borrowed from it things which he could not find any 

 ■where elfe. I have corre6led fome faults in it. {Bibliotheque 

 Frangoife de Pougens.) 



The Board of Longitude has fent to the printing-office ob- 

 fervations made for two years with the new inftruments of 

 the obfervatory by Mecham and Bouvard, to be printed in 

 folio like thofe which Monnier publiflied between 1751 and 

 1773> ^'"^^ thofe of Greenwich in England, which were 

 worthy of ferving as a model. 



On the 3d of July M. de Kofel, a naval officer, arrived at 

 Paris with the Journals of the voyage undertaken in fearch 

 of La Peroufc, under the command of captain d'Entrecaf- 

 teaux. 



La Grandiere alfo has brought a journal of that voyage, 

 which the Englifh government had a year in their hands, 

 but which they reftored to him. At the depot of the marine 

 there are 58 charts conllruiSted during that voyage by Beau- 

 temps- Beaupre, hvdrographcr of the expedition. 



In the month of June I received intf;Iligence from C. Ber- 

 nier, who was at New Holland. Captain Baudin touched 

 only in two places in an extent of 400 leagues which he tra- 

 verfed on the wedern coad. He was preparing to accomplifli 

 the remaining part of the expedition to the north and fouth : 

 but it appears to me that the zeal of this adronomer has been 

 thwarted by the indiflerence of the captain ; and this voyage, 

 on which we founded great hopes, will not be fo productive 

 as it ought to be. 



The diip Lady Nelfon, fent out with the Inveftigator, cap- 

 tain Flinders, which arrived at New Holland about the mid- 

 dle of December 1801, fell in with the Geographe, com- 

 manded bv Baudin. She then found at ]^)rt Jackfon the 

 Naturalide, commanded by Hamelin, and which failed 

 about the middle of May to go in fearch of the Geographe, 

 from which (lie had been feparaled by a gale of wind in the 



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