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logueof 5058 stars, collected from the observations of Fiainstead, 

 Bradley, Hevelius, Mayer, de la Caiilc, Messier, Moiinier, d'Ar- 

 quier> and other astronomers ; all adapted to the beginning of die 

 year 1780, and accompanied with a celestial atlas, or set of maps 

 of the constellations, engraved in a very delicate and beautiful 

 manner. 



lb these may be added Dr. Herscheirs catrdogue of double 

 «tars, printed in the Philosophical Transactions for 1782 and 1/83 ; 

 Messier's nebula: and clusters of stars, publi.-;hed in the Connoissunce 

 dcs Temps for 1784 ; and Herschell's catalogue of the same kin*.l-, 

 given in tlie Philosophical Transactions for lysO. 



Jn 1792, Dr. von Zach, of Gotha, annexed to his Tahula Moluinn 

 Solis a new catalogue of the principal fixed stars, from his own 

 observations, made in the years 178/, 1788, 1/8^, 171JO. This 

 catalogue contains the right ascensions and declinations of 381 

 principal stars, adapted to the beginning of the year 1 800. 



But all these catalogues yield, both in extent and value, to 

 thaf of dc la Lande, whose diligence, skill, and pcr.-.everancc, in 

 this department of astronomical observation, do him the highe»i 

 honour. — Suppltmcnt to the Encyclopcedia. 



: Na'e (R), p. 82. — Professor Testa, of Rome, has read to the 

 Academy of Religion there, a memoir written by him, in which he 

 proves, in the most evident manner, that the Zodiacs lately dis- 

 covered in Egypt have not that antiquity w hicli some pretend to 

 give them j and, consequently, that they pro\e nothing against tlio 

 chronology of uVIoses. He asserts that the Eg}'ptians were not 

 acquainted with the motion of the fixed stars in longitude, an(] 

 that Hipparchus was the first who discovered it. Ilipparchus, 

 the astronomer here alluded to, was a native of Xicea, and 

 flourished about the year I29 before Jesus C^hrist. Professor 

 Testa remarks also, that the Zodiac of Dendera is found in a 

 temple of Grecian architecture, which bears the name of Tiberius 3 

 that this temple not being two tiiousand }c'ars okl, the Zodiac 

 discovered in it cannot have existed abo\e four thousand j that in 

 these Zodiacs is seen the sign of Libra, a constellation absolutely 

 unknown to the ancient Egyptians. It appears, therefore, that a 

 certain class of" philosophers will not deri\c from the discovery of 

 these Zodiacs that advantage which they expected. 



iNVe (S), p. 85. — It is asFcrted in the page hero quoted, 

 tiiat the celebrated instrument called tlie (juadrunt, which bear* 



