AG Life and Character of Nathaniel Bowditch. 
And thou, refulgent orb of al 
In brighter flames arrayed 
My soul, which springs beyond thy sphere, 
No more demands thine ai f 
Ye stars are but the shining dust 
Of my divine abode, : 
The pavement of those heavenly courts, , 
- Where I shall reign with God. 
The Father of eternal light 
Shall there his beams display ; 
- Nor shall one moment’s darkness mix 
With that unvaried day.” 
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DR. BOWDITCH’S SCTENTIFIC PAPRID. oe 
The following is a list of the — éontributed by Dr. Bowditch to the Me- 
of Arts and Sciences. It will serve to show the 
extent of his observations and the variety of his inquiries, 
VOLSIbGs, 
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“Observations on the Total Ratings of the mn , June 16, 1806, made at Biter 
Addition to the sectans on the Solar Ecli se.of . June 16, 1806. 
; rs Rule for solving sone of rightangled spherie trigo- 
10n ry tos Sees cases of oblique-angled spheric trigonometry. 
mate 0 height. , direction, yee and Tagtitide of the Meteor that 
ined over Weitss; ta Oon , Dec. 14,1807. 
On the Eclipse of the Sun of Sept. 17, 1811, with the Jongitudes of several pla 
ces in this country, deduced from all the observations of the eclipses of the Sun, 
and transits of Mercury and Venus, that have been published in the Transac- 
tions of the Royal Societies of Paris and London, the Philosophical Society held 
at Philadelphia, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. == 
Elements of the orbit of the Comet of 1811. - — 
An estimate of the height of the bk Hills in New Hampshire. 
On the variation of the Magnetic Nee 
On the motion of a pendalum ieee from two — 
nstration of the rule for finding the ble a Meteor, in the gcor 
problem, page 218 of this volume. 
VOL, IV. 
‘Oma mistake which exists in the solar tables of Mayer, La Lande, na Zach. 
‘On the calculation of the oblateness of the earth, by means of the observed 
— of a pendulum in different latitudes, atvarding to the method given by La 
in the second volume of his “Mécanique Céleste,’ with remarks on other 
: Sta relating to the figure of the earth. 
ide soereatelginant <f ie Moon from the iemanieaaa 
