ai4 Hijlory of AJlronomy for the Year l8o2. 



eclipfe from C. ThuHs at Marfeilles, and from C. Flaguer- 

 gues at Viviers. 



Prince Henry of Wirtemberg, brother of the emprefs 

 dowager of Ruflia, who refides at^Hamburgh, has purchafed 

 the beautiful inftruments made by Megnie, of Paris. 



The fpeculum for a telefcope, which Dr. Herfchel fent to 

 Peterfburgh, has been fent back to him for the purpofe of 

 being mounted. Kramp folicits for the eftabliftiment of aa 

 oblervatory at Cologne. 



The academyof Turin requeftsthere-eftablifhmentof its ob- 

 fervatury ; and M. Henry has offered to take the direftion of it. 

 Fathers Canovai and Delricco, who have at Florence the 

 obfervatory of father Ximenes, have fent us a hft of their 

 inftrument:., to prove that they cannot exert themfelves with 

 any advantaa^e for aftronomy ; but they have publifhed tables 

 pf logarithms. 



The king of Etruria has announced that he ftill entertains 

 a defign of placing an aftronomer in his Cabinet de Phjyfque, 

 where he has alreedy fomc excellent inftruments. 



General Chabert, who has returned from England after 

 an abfence of ten years, has been aflbciated with the Board 

 of Longitude, to which office he was juflly entitled by his 

 geographical labours ; and his age of fixty-eight years does 

 not prevent him from being prefent at the fittings, and from 

 being; ufeful by his advice and experience. 



The vounceft fon of our celebrated aftronomer C. Mechain 

 has been appointed by the Board of Longitude fecretary of 

 the obfervatorv, which affords him an opportunity of de- 

 voting himfelf to aftronomy. Auguftine Francis Mechain was 

 born "at Paris, March 5, 1786. 



He has fucceeded his brother Ifaac, who having returned 

 from Egypt has been appointed conimiflioner of foreign rela- 

 tions at Galafia, in Moldavia. 



C. Lechevalier has conftrufted in the Hotel of Foreign 

 Relations a fmall obfervatory, where he can gratify the tafte 

 and curiofity of which he gave proofs during his ftay at Con- 

 llantinople. 



C. Louis Berthoud has conftruiSted for the obfervatory a 

 clock worth a thoufand crowns. The pivots turn in rubies, 

 and we hope it will equal that given by the Firft Conful to 

 the obfervatory of Milan. 



C. Pons, a watchmaker of great (kill and ingenuity, made 

 an experiment at my obfervatory of a clock which beats half 

 feconds with a free icapement, and which goes with wonder- 

 ful regularity. 



C. LevSque 



