New Publications. SCSp 



1-eai origin of the AsraUoclmm, from a plant entirely nev*-j 

 xVh'.vr. tn- author calls AiOc.xyluvi. by the fame. 



In the Mathematical Clafs are: A gfeneral folu'ion of 



Kepler's probJcm de dcmclrlcndo dolio 7i'jn phno, by ^of^ 

 Monteiro da Roclia. On the true principles of the Joftrine 

 of fluxions, by Borja Gar^ao Stockier. Additions to the 

 rule of M. Fontaine for folving problems rel'pefting the 

 qi:ad:£ij.-e bv approximation, by Jofe Monteiro da Rocha. 

 Various o-'.-irvations of the eclipfes of Jupiter's fatellites, 

 made n:i 17 •}■-, in the royal college of Mafra, by D. Joaquini 

 da Affump^ao Veiho. On determining the loi\aitude and^ 

 latitude of Lifbon, vvith the aitronon.ical obfervations em- 

 ployed for that purpole, by Cuflodio Gomes de Villas-Boas. 

 Obfervalions of the fame kind, and for the like purpofe, 

 made at Rio Janeiro,- by Bento Sanches Dorta. Allrono- 

 ,mical obfervations by Franc. Antonio Ciera and Franc, de 

 Olivtiira Barboza. Obfervations on tiie end of the eclipfe of 

 Dec. 17, 1781, nuide at Carthagena, by D. Jacinto Ceruti. 

 Solution of a picbiem, propofed by the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences, refjjccling the approximation of M. Fontaine, by 

 Manoel Joaquim Coelho da Maja. 



In the Clafs of Portaguefe Literature a feries of papers is 

 announced on the iegifiation and tonll:itution of Portugal, 

 by Antonio Caetano Jo Amariiii 'she firft, which is here 

 given, contams an account of ihe Hale of Portugal till it be- 

 came a Roman province. This clafs contains alfo the two 

 following articles: — On the iaftoral Poetry of the Lufita- 

 nians, by .loaquim de Foros; and a hiltorical elogium of 

 D'Alcmbert, by Franc. Borja Garc;ao Stockier. 



Vhilofophical TranfaB'tons of the Royal Society of London fa^ 

 the Year i'^^)(). Part I. 



The contents are : T. The Croonian ledturej Experi- 

 ments and oblervations on the ftrufture of nerves, by Eve- 

 rard Home, Efq. F. R. S. — II. The Bakerian ledure. Ob- 

 fervations upon an uiiuiuftl horizontal refradion of the air. 



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