«5o Life of Jofpb Toaldo. 



■Tavoh dl Vitalita, a fniall but laborious work, was printt'd 

 itcxt year at Padua and Venice. 



Ill the vear 178(8 he undertook a third tour * to Rome, 

 Naples, Trieftc, and Tufcany ; during which he examined 

 the place where Hannibal croflcd tlie Alps, and wrote a 

 paper on this fubjeft, which was iniertcd in the fourth vo- 

 lume of the Traniactioiis of the / cadcmy c)f Padua, of 

 which he had been a nicndicr from the time of its eltaldifli- 

 tncnt. Next year he introduced the French clocks at Padua, 

 and publilhed a trcaliCe on gnonioaic*, and refpeOting f'he- 

 d'uifmafa ajirotto7nica, the eclipic of the tun, and the paf- 

 fage of Mercury. 



ik'fidcs tliefe work?, the jiublic were rrxlebled to him for 

 various (liort eflays, publiihed fometimes in his own journals 

 and printed fomctitncs feparately : fuch as a fliort treatife on 

 chronoioov ; an clVav on the extraordinary winter, together 

 •with a chronological view of the weather in general ; feveral 

 refearches refpe<::ting the continued drought of the winter of 

 the vear 1779 ; on fugs, and the inHuence of fiery meteors ; 

 a progno ft i cation of the weather from the flight of birds; 

 coniidcrations on a new cycle, and the ftate of the planets ; 

 general rules for foretelling the periods of rain and wind iti 

 the Adriatic gnljih, from an obfervation of the heavens. 

 Other papers by him are to be found in many of the public 

 Journals, and in the Tranfactions of learned focictics. The 

 Jonrnal of Modena contains his defence of Leibnitz againli; 

 De Luc, and obfervatious on the falling of the mercury in 

 the barometer during rainy weather ; that of Pifa, a treatife 

 on the influence of the moon, in anfwer to the objceiions of 

 Frifi. Various meteorological and philofophical papers writ- 

 ten by him may be found likewlfe in the Venetian, Vicentine, 

 and Milanefe journals, in fome of the French journals, and 

 in the Tranfa6tions of the Society of Manheim. The Phi- 

 lofophical Tranfa6lions, thoft of the Inftitute of Bologna, 

 and of the Academy of Berlin, contain three of his papers, 

 viz. De JEjlu reciproco Maris Adriatici; De Galore Lunari; 

 and De Vi Luna: in Atmofpha:ram, ex Ohfervaiionibus baro- 

 mctricis. Some of his altronomlcal obfervations were pub- 

 liflied in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences at Paris. 

 The Tranfadions of the Academy of Padua, however, con- 

 tain the greateft: number of papers written by this diligent 

 philofopher: fuch a?, a defcripiion of aii aurora borealis, 

 with a chronological account of the appearance of this phse- 



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Bf (ide? the tnur above mentioned for inrj'c-iting the Italian obfcrva- 

 tnrles, \\c had undertaken a fccond about the year 17S0, tiimugh Lom- 

 tudy, Piedmont, and to the coalt of Genoa. 

 ..... L nomenon 



