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CATALOGUE. HISTORY OF ASTBONOMY. 



Shows, that all the circles intersect each other in the 

 same angles as those which they represent. After Ptolemy. 

 A planisphere. R. I. 

 Equation clocks. See Astronomical Time. 



Mr. Arrowsmith generally employs for his maps a glo- 

 bular projection, in which the meridians and parallels are 

 portions of circles, cutting the circumference and diameters 

 of the projection at equal distances; they appear also 

 to cut each other into equal portions, so that the dis- 

 tortion principally arises from their not being perpendi- 

 cular to each other near the poles, besides the inequality of 

 the scale in different parts, which is perhaps nearly as small 

 as possible. 



History of Astronomy and Geography. 



Ph. tr. \m5-Q. I, 3. 



Hooke found in 1864 that Jupiter revolved in about 8 

 hours. 



Cassini on the rotation of Venus. A. P. X. 



324. 



Observed in ifla?. 

 Ph. tr. 1725. 



Newton thinks that the constellations were arranged by 

 Chiron when the solstitial and equinoctial points were in 

 the middle of the respective constellations. 



Mairan. A. P. 1727. 63. H. 117. 



Alexandre and Baliani thought the earth turned round 

 the moon, 



Molieres on vortices. A P. 1729. 235. H. 87. 



Against Newton. 

 Frisch on astronomical characters. M. Berl. 



1729. 

 Latham on the antient sphere. Ph. tr. 1741. 



XLI. 730. 1742. XLII. 221. 

 Costard on the Chinese chronology and 



astronomy. Ph. tr. 1747- XLIV. 476. 



Against its antiquity. 



Costard's history of astronomy. 4. 1767. 



R.I. 

 JBaiUy Histoire de I'astronomie. 4 v. 4. Par. 



1781. R. I. 



Ace. A. P. 1775. H.44. 

 Bailly Traite de rastronomie Indienne. 4. 



Par. 1787. R. I. 



4 



Raper and Lalande on Norwood's measure- 

 ment. Ph. tr. 1761.366, 369. 



Hassencamp Gescliichte der bemiihungendie 

 nieereslange zu finden. 8. Rinteln. 1774. 



Liilande on Herschel's planet. A. P. I779. 

 520. H. 31. / 



Legentil on the origin of the zodiac. A. P. 



1782. 368. H. 51. 



Legentil on the antiquity of the constella- 

 tions. A. P. 1789. 506. ^ 

 Herschel on his Georgium sidus. Ph. tr. 



1783. I. 



V/all on astronomical symbols. Manch. M. 

 I. 243. 



Derives if from the caduceus, J from the sistrum, ^ 

 from the shield and spear, i; from Jr, ^ from the sickle. 

 Frisch deduces 11 from lightning with the eagle. 



Blair's history of geography. 12. Lond. 



1784. 

 Otto on the discovery of America. An>. tr. IL 



263. Nich. L 73. 

 Zach on Harriot's observations of the solar 



spots. Bode Jahrb. 1788. 

 On the knowledge of the earth's motion. 



Eberhard Neue vermischte schriften. 8. 



Halle, 1788. 67. 

 Playfair on the astronomy of the Brahmins. 



Ed.tr. H. 135. 



Supposes some observations 5000 years old. 

 Davison the astronomy of the Hindoos. As. 



res. n. 225. 

 Davis on the Indian cycle of 60 years. As. 



res. III. 209. 

 Jones on the Indian zodiac. As. res, II. 



289. 

 Jones on the lunar year of the Hindoos. As. 



res. III. 257. 

 Cavendish on the civil year of the Hindoos. 



Ph. tr. 1792. 383. 

 Lalande's history of astronomy for 1795 and 



1796. Journ. Phys, XLV. (II,; 325. 



