374? On the Nautical Almanac. 



finite ; in which case the term iiifinite is strictly inapplicable 

 to physical properties ; as well as to moral and intellectual pro- 

 perties^ except as these latter exist in the Creator. 



With respect to infinite series in mathematics : they may 

 be made the measure of any thing real or unreal; they may 

 be applied to aid our conceptions of the infinite attributes of 

 God, or of the indefinite attributes of his works ; but the appli- 

 cation, to be genuine, must evidently be with due regard to 

 the nature of the thins to which it is made, as observed in mv 

 former remarks upon this subject. 



It appears to me that that which is Infinite must be Universal, 

 extending through all modes of being from the first to the last. 



LXIII. Two Lines from the Nautical Almanac, addressed to 



Mr. Ivory. 

 " TF we employed the height of the thermometer without, 



•*■ which would be more consistent with the theory, it 

 would probably be necessary to suppose the standard tempera- 

 ture of the table 48° only, instead of 50°." — N.A. p. 148. 



For Mr. Groombridge's observations, it is remarked, in the 

 13th Number of the Astronomical and Nautical Collection, 

 that it will be necessary to alter the supposed standard of the 

 tables to 46°, instead of 48°. 



Mr. Ivory, in the Philosophical Magazine for April, insists 

 on employing the table of the Nautical Almanac at 50° ; and 

 on finding the sum of its errors -+-96" - 7 and — 13"'0. 



Now if he has computed rightly for 50°, these errors, sup- 

 posing the temperature 48°, become 56"'9 and 26"'0 ; for 47°, 

 + 36"-3 and — S5"-8 ; the sum of which is 72"*1. This is indeed, 

 a trifle more than the sum of the errors of the new table, 

 which amounts to 60" only; but is still far short of 109"'?, or 

 rather 1 19"'7 the sum of the errors assigned to the N. A. by 

 Mr. Ivory. So inconsiderable a difference, in the neighbour- 

 hood of the horizon, can scarcely be considered as decisive of 

 the question, even allowing the accuracy of the computation : 

 and it has not been asserted that the New Tables are inferior 

 to those of the N. A. 



But the comparison which Mr. Ivory considers as tricked 

 out in all sorts of disguises for the purpose of ensnaring unwary 

 judges, does in fact prove that both of these tables give the 

 correction for accidental changes of temperature somewhat 

 too great ; they are both founded nearly upon the same hy- 

 pothesis respecting the effect of a change of temperature, and 

 that hypothesis is not fully justified by Mr. Groombridge's 

 observations. S. B. L. 



LXIV. No- 



