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K'astner. Hind. Arch. II. 8. 



Averroes and Bacon thought of the moon, as Euler did of 

 »U opaque bodies, that its substance was made luminous by 

 the sun's rays. 



Mr. Leslie has lately advanced the same opinion. 



*xVlurhard. Ph. M. VI. l66. 



Rather inclines to suppose a very rare lunar atmosphere. 

 Laplace and Delambre have found from the latest calcu- 

 lations that the moon's mass is of the earth. Zach. 



OS. 5 



Mon. corr. Lapl. Mec. eel. 

 The moon's distance varies from 54 to 7 8 semidiameters. 



Satellites of Jupiter. 



Galilei nuntius sidereus. Op. II. i. 

 Mrtm niundus Jovialis. 4. Niiremb. 1614. 

 Herschel on the magnitude and rotation of 

 Jupiter's satellites. Pli. tr. 1797. 332. 

 The third is by much the largest, the first and fourth 

 equal, the second a little smaller. They all present the 

 same face to Jupiter throughout their revolutions. 



Satellites of Saturn. 



For the ring, see Saturn, 



Hugenii systema Saturninum. 4- Hague, 



1659.. 

 Cassini's discovery of two of Saturn's sateUites. 



Ph.tr. 1673. VI II. 5073. 

 Pound on the satellites of Saturn. Ph. tr. 1718. 



XXX. 768. 

 A sixth satellite announced. Herschel. Ph. 



tr. 1789. 

 Herschel on a sixth and seventh satellite of 



Saturn. Ph.tr. 1790.1. 

 -Herschel on Saturn's satellites and ring. Ph. 



tr. 1790.427. 

 Herschel on the rotation of Saturn's fifth sa- 



telHte. Ph.tr. 1792. 1. 

 I'resents always the same face to Saturn. 



.», Satellites of the Georgian Planet. 

 Herschel on two satellites of the Georgian 

 planet. Ph. tr. 1787. 125. 1788. S64. 



VOL. 11. 



Herschel on four additional satellites of the 

 Georgian planet. Ph. tr. 1798. 47. 



Comets. 



Senecae quaestiones naturales. vii. 

 Bartholinm de cometis. 4. Copenh. 1665. 



M. B. 

 Lubinietz Theatrum cometicutn. f. Anist. 



1668. M.B. 

 Jiew/u cometographia. f. Dantz. 1668. M.B. 

 Hooke's lectures and collections. 4. lG78. 



Cometa. Figures, p. 2, 3. 

 Halleii astronomiae cometicae synopsis. Ph. 



tr. 1705. XXIV. 1882. 

 Lord Paisley on the comet of 1723, with fi- 

 gures. Ph. tr. 1724. XXXni.50. 

 Hein&iuinher den comelen. 4. Petersb. 1744, 

 Mairan on the tails of comets. A. P. 1747- 



411. 

 Dunthorne against the identity of the comets 



of 1106 and l680. Ph. tr. 1751. 281. 

 Winthrop on the tails of comets. Ph. tr. 



1767. 132. 

 Wiedeburg Ubcr den cometen. Jeua, 1769. 

 Williamson on comets. Am. tr. I. 133. 

 Oliver on comets. 8. Salem, 1772. 

 Laplace on the orbits of comets. S. E. 1773. 



503. 

 Dionis du Sejour sur les cometes. A. P. 1774. 



H. 78. 

 Dionis du Sejour Essai sur les cometes. Par. 



1775. R. S. 

 Euler on the effects of comets. N. C. Petr. 



XIX. 499. 



Lexell on the comet of 1770. A. P. 1776. 

 638. Ph. tr. 1779- 68. 



Calculates that it moves, as Prosperia supposed, in an 

 elliptic orbit, its period about 5i years, its aphelion a little 

 beyond the orbit of Jupiter. 



*Pingre cometographie. 2 vol. Par. 1783. 

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