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Padua 1770. 4to. This work, which made the author known 

 throughout all Europe, was tranflated into different languages, 

 and procured for him admilTion into various learned focieties. 

 About the fame time he publiflied feme eflfavs in favour of 

 eleiSlrical conducl:ors, many of which, in confequence of his 

 recommendation, were e reeled iu the Venetian territories : 

 alfo a chronological view of uncommon changes in the wea- 

 ther, with tables of the ftate of the barometer, and flux and 

 reflux of the fca. In the vear 1773 he began his meteoro- 

 logical journal, whicii he continued till his death. In the 

 year 1774 his celebrity was ftill further increafed by his an- 

 iwering a prize queftion, propofeu by the Academical Society 

 of Montpellicr, on meteorology as applied to agriculture; 

 which was crowned by the above fociety, and printed in R6- 

 zier's Journal de Fhyjiquc. It was tranflated in almoft every 

 country of Europe, and, together with the author's preceding 

 work, excited general attention to a (ludy which before had 

 been much neglected : this paper contributed alio, in a con- 

 fiderable degree, to the eftablifliment of the Meteorological 

 Society of Manheim. After this period the author continued 

 with great zeal to exert himfelf in difiufing meteorological 

 knowledge, and in improving meteorological inftruments; 

 and in 1776 he publillied, in the Economical Journal of 

 Venice, an extract from De Luc's Treitife on the Barometer 

 and Thermometer, by which the conflrucSlion of thefe inftru- 

 ments was much facilitated. Next year (1777) he tranflated 

 Lalande's Aftronomical Tallies and his Abrcg; de V Ajlrono- 

 mie, as he did afterwards his Ajlronomte des Dames ; and he 

 eredled a marble buft of that eminent aftronomer in the ob- 

 fervalorv. After this time his attention was exclufively di- 

 rected to aftronomy and meteorology, and he in particular 

 endeavoured to confirm more and more his doctrine refpe6ting 

 the influence of the moon on the difterent changes of the 

 weather. He publiflied alfo an hiftorical view of the fcr- 

 vice rendered by the Venetian fchools to aftronomy, geo- 

 graphy, and navigation. In the year 1783 he obtained, in 

 conjunAion with his nepliew Chiminello, from the academy 

 of Manheim, the prize for the heft trcatife on the cnnftruc- 

 tion of a comparative hygrometer; and in 1784 he publiflied 

 a fmall work on finding the longitude, De Mdhodo I.o»gi- 

 iudinum, et Objervutio/it Tranfit'/s Lun^ per Merhiicinum; 

 which wan much approved, particularly in England. From 

 this period he v.Tote iKAliing i;xcept his journal till the year 

 1787, when he publiflied a fmall work in two fliects, entnJed 

 Confronlo dclU I'cii^i'jui cot principal} Prodot/i dellii Cum- 

 f^g>i(ij which appi-'ircd at \ enice. His Tables of Vitality, 



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