a88 Deaths, 



tion, produces a much fpeedier and more efficacious effcA 

 than veficatories. We have reafon to hope that this matter 

 will be further examined and iHuftrated. 



DEATHS. 



On the 17 th of June, at Berhn, J. Abrahamfon, the ce- 

 lebrated dye-finker. He was born in 1723, in the duchy of 

 ■Mecklcnburgh-Strelitz, and leariied^ from a very indifferent 

 artift of Liffa, the art of engraving coats of arms, and of en- 

 graving on gems ; but^ being poflelTed of an excellent genius, 

 he was able, by his own talents, combined with reflection, 

 diligence, and clofe application, to raifc hinifelf to that de-'' 

 gree of celebrity to which he was fo judly entitled. With- 

 out being able to draw or to model, he difplaycd in all his 

 works great ability and readinefs. Among his principal 

 produ(5lions may be reckoned his medars on the victories of 

 Frederick II. during the i^vtn years war, and particularly 

 that on the battle of Torgau, after Ramler's idea and a 

 drawing by Meils. He entered into the fervice of his Pruffian 

 majefty in 1750. 



On the 2olh of June, at Gottingen, that refpc6lable ve- 

 teran among the German mathematicians, Abraham Gotthclf 

 Kiiftner, in the cightv-firft year of his age. He was a coun- 

 fellor of ftate to his Britannic majefiy, profcffor of mathe- 

 matics and natural philofophy in the univerfity of Gottin- 

 gen, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of that citv,. 

 of the Agricultural Society of Brunfwick Lunenburgh, of 

 the Academies of Stockholm and Berlin, of the Electoral 

 Academy of the Ufeful Sciences at Erfurt, of the Academy 

 of Sciences at Bologna, &c, &c. Befides pofl'efling great 

 mathematical knowledge, he was well acquainted with lite- 

 rature in general, and had a rich vein of wit, as appear? by 

 his profe writings and his epigrams. 



