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New _— is determining the Longitude. 107 
Ant. XIX. _Wolsed of * The New Method of Determining 
the Longitude by the Culmination of the Moon a 
Ban he a Paper read before the Astronomical So- 
of Lond To which are now added an Appendix, — 
pe a List of Stars, pes to the 28 fort the Psa 
1825. By Francis Baily, Esq. F. R. S. oo 
Quarto, pp. 48. ghendon, 1824,—By . Bowie 
HitcHcock. 
Tuer is probably no science whose practical Seplice: 
tion (to say nothing of the theory) has in it so much of 
grandeur and sublime interest asastronomy. The intense 
delight Sem by the real amateur, as he sees through 
sco e first contact of the limbs of the sun and 
moon ina oAnag eclipse, or of a star and the ae in an 
occultation, or of a planet and the sun ina transil, is of such 
a sui generis character, that, though not unfreque 
it is not casily described. And when the cale 
culator sits 
down to apply the principles of spherics to his observa- 
tions, he Biiais mind pleasantly sustained through the 
most. laborious processes, by a peculiar enthusiasm, that 
makes forget the dryness of the mere arithmetic that 
is concerned. 
aa bs importance a the subject and the munificent re- 
war rds offe of the European governments, have 
, ni “A ony much to sharpen the ingenuity and 
ea 
‘geal of astronomers in that particular apphicames of their 
science that relates to finding the longitude of places on the 
earth. And their success in overcoming the formidable 
difficulties that encumbered the subject, in perfecting the 
modes of observation, and simplifying the calculations, 
has long ago excited the highest admiration and the grati- 
tude of seamen.* Fora bite years past, however, we be- 
lieve the subject has not excited so much interest. We 
must certainly form this cuaehniog if we judge from the 
* In this connexion We are happy to refer = the eg gg pte = emi- 
pedir st successful exertions of our countrym We 
re bold tonssert't that no man living has ten € 30 much as he ving the safety 
me convenience of the navigator. And he has done sh fo’ 
mers by his translations and ents of the & Mee 
But that work is suffered to lie 
want of { 
astrono- 
e “ Mecanique ‘Colones 
bp manuscript, in this bees country, for 
