Hijlory of AJlronomy for the Year i8o3. A17 



Aftronomy loft alfo in France, on the xft of March, 

 M. Lemery, whofe finifular turn for calculation I difccwered 

 thirty years ago. Being then attached to the marquis De 

 Pufieux, he employed all his leifure time in calculation. I 

 made him calculate a great many places of the moon, which 

 were publiflied in 1777 in the Conmijfance des Temps for 

 1779: and for fifteen years he made all the calculations of 

 that work with equal care and affiduity. 



Daniel Bogdanich died at Pert, in Hungary, on the 31ft 

 of January, at the age of 37. He was occupied with the 

 geography of Hungary. (See Von Zach's Journal for April 

 1802.) 



M. George Frederic Kordenbufch, aflronomer of Nurem- 

 berg, died on the 3d of April, at the age of 71. 



In the month or September baron De Vega was drowned 

 in the Danube, and it i.-; funjwfed threw himfelf into that 

 river. We are indebted to him for the large edition of 

 Vlacq's tables of logarithms in folio, containing the numl)ers 

 to 100,000 ; and the fines from ten to ten feconds, which had 

 become very rare, and in which he corre6led many faults. 



Meteorology has this year exhibited very extraordinary 

 phaenomena. In the month of January an extraordinary 

 inundation : the Seine rofe 22 feet and a half above the 

 height of 1719. 



On the 25th of May a froft, which did immenfe hurt to 

 the produtlions of the earth. 



On the 14th of May fnow fell at Munich, and continued 

 for furty-five hours: the trees were ftripped of their leaves, 

 and overturned. 



In the months of July and Auguft an exceffive heat took 

 place, and continued forty days. The thermometer at the 

 obltTvatory ftood at 97° F., which is very uncommon at Paris. 



The need of having meteorological rules founded on ob- 

 fervation, induced our learned minifter to eftablifli a corre- 

 fpondence on that fubjeft, and an office to conduft it. 



Meteorological oblervations have been made in thirty 

 places, from the convent of Mount Cenis as far as the 

 borders of the Tea. 



John Dominic Beraud, born in 1741, formerly a draftf- 

 man at Coni, and who for twenty years has refided at l\uin, 

 continues to employ himfelf in making meteorological ob- 

 fervations, and fends us regularly his refults. 



Lafon, geographical engineer in Louifiana, has fent us 

 meteorolog'icai obfcrvations made at New Orleans ; and we 

 have received fomc made at Guadaloupe bv C. Hapcl La- 



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