282... Ob/ervations on ihe Satellites. of the. Georgium Planct, 
dating power,.or that, which gives folidity, to all bodies... 
The force of cryftallifation is.confequently, a force which, 
ads in the moft general manner inmature; that is to fay, , 
among exifting beings. Attraction itfelf is the effect, of, 
the action of the gravific fluid, and repulfion is the effect of , 
the repulfive fluid er caloric. . The philofopher acknow- 
ledges that he is yet ignorant of the.manner.in which all 
thefe fluids aét ;. he is only acquainted with fome int their, . 
laws. ) 
This acceptation of the word foree eo es every poflible 
Jatitude to the calculations of geometry (which form the 
phyfico-mathematical {ciences), and does not violate the 
principles of found philofophy. The expreffion occult caufes, 
explained in this manner, can give no offence.) But af; 
people fhould perfift to confider force as a quality inaepen- 
dent of the action. of all matter, fluid or not fluid, this, 
would. be a mere metaphyfical abftraction,, 
SA ES OE RIE I a ST TE EN 
X.4, Obfervations on the, Satellites. of the Georgium Planet, 
and. the two innermoft Satellites of Saturn. .By Dr. JH, 
Scuroten, F.R.S. 8c. From Neucre Beytrage zur Er. 
weiterung der Sternkunde.. 1798. 
Twas prevented by various fpeculations, during the hours 
of obfervation, from directing the thirteen or, twenty-feven, 
feet reflectors to the Georgium Sidus till the rgth of Febru-, 
Ary 1797, when, about eight-o’cleck in the evening | looked 
at it through the thirteen feet reflector, with a magnifying, 
power of almoft 200. It appeared very plainly ‘ag a pla net, 
of menfurable diameter, having a pale white Jight ;and,in 
a little time, when the cye pees accuftomed to the inftru~, 
ment, feveral very fmall ftars were perceptible around it. 
Two of thefe, being the neareft, in @ and (Plate V I, fig. Ti 
- were, alittle clearer, though it was with fome difficulty, 
they could be ciflinguifhed, The largeft, a, was to. the 
north= 
