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publithed the firft volume, in 1775, with a typographic ele. 
gance which had been before unknown in Germany. Want 
of leifure prevented him from editing a fecond. Lichten- 
berg was twice in England ; the firft time im 1770, and agairt 
in 1774. Inthe year 1777, after Erxleben’s death, he ftudi- 
ed natural. philofophy, in the introduction to that feience 
written by his predeceffor; the four. laft editions of which 
were publifhed under his infpection, but always with addi- 
_ tions by himfelf. On this occafion he made a colle&tion of | 
philofophical inftruments, which afterwards beeame the pro- 
perty of the Univerfity. Among the new experiments, which 
were peculiarly Lichtenberg’s own, isthat refpecting the figures 
formed by pounded refin on the ele&trophore, by which he 
examined and traced out the nature and progrefs of the elec- 
tric fuid in a new manner, and communicated the refult of 
his refearches in two papers, read before the Royal Society 
in 1777 and 1778. Profeffor Lichtenberg had a very exten= 
five correfpondence, which enabled him to commanicate te 
the Society a variety of ufeful intelligetice. He propofed, al- 
ternately with Kaftner, the prize queftions of the mathema~ 
tical clafs, and was the author of the Jaft for the prefent year. 
refpeCting the motion of fteam in conduétors of a given kind. 
In the year 1780 he began, in conjunétion with the late 
J. R. Forfter, the Gottingen Magazine, fix numbers of which 
appeared annually, till 1785, when it was dropped with the © 
firft number of that year. In the Gottingen Pocket Calen- 
dar, of which he was the editor for many years, he publithed 
various articles equally ufeful and agreeable. Among thefe — 
was an account of Hogarth’s fatyrical prints, accompanied — 
with engravings. The large account of thefe prints, witha — 
commentary, is well known. As Profeflor Lichtenberg’s ~ : 
complaints returned regularly every year, the laft attack was 
at firft not confidered dangerous ; but an inflammation of the 
lungs taking place, he was orice off on the 24th ‘of Febru« 
ary, as before flated. 
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