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Ilerclim organis rite observatas, exhibens; et quidem quodvis 



II sidui in peculiar! tabella, in piano descriptum, sic ut 



Ucxhm. omn j a conjunctim totum globum celestem exactissime 



"""Y"""' referant: prout ex binis hemispheriis majoribus, bo- 



reali scilicet ct austral!, adhuc clarius cuique patet." 



This work contains 54 charts, representing the whole 



heavens. 



Hevelius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 of London in 1664. and contributed several papers to 

 the Philosophical Transactions. 



When M. Delisle passed through Dantzic on his way 

 to Russia in 1626, he purchased all the manuscript ob- 

 servations of Hevelius, along with his extensive cor- 

 respondence, forming seventeen folio volumes, four of 

 which were occupied with his observations. These 

 manuM-ripts contain much curious information respect- 

 ing the history of astronomy. They were lodged by 

 Delisle in the depot of the marine at Paris. Those who 

 wish for farther and more minute details respect- 

 ing the life and writings of Hevelius, will find much 

 information in a life of him, published at Dantzic in 

 1780 by Benjamin Leugnich, and entitled, Hevelius, 

 oder Anekdoten und Nachrichten von diesem beruchmten 

 Manne. Many particulars respecting our author will also 

 be found in Bernoulli's Travels in Prussia, Poland, 

 and Warsovia, 1782., p. 183. A figure of his mauso- 

 leum is given in Bernoulli's Collection of Voyages, 

 torn. ii. 1781. See also the Journal de Savans, Aout. 

 1 782, and Murr's Journal Literaire, Nuremb. 



HEXACHORD Major of Galileo, is an interval of 

 music, whose ratio is 44, = 462 S + 9 f + 40 m, or the 

 Comma-redundant major SIXTH. See that article. 



HEXACHORD Major of the Greeks, or hexachordon 

 major of Holder, &c. has the ratio f, = 45lS + 9f + 

 3D m, or the Major SIXTH, which see. 



HEXACHORD Minor of Didymus, has the ratio T 8 T7>= 

 404 2 + 8 f + 35 m, or the Comma- deficient minor 

 SIXTH, which see. 



HEXACHORD Minor of Galileo, has the ratio $%., = 

 4-262 + 8f + 37m, or the Comma- redundant minor 

 SIXTH, which see. 



HEXACHORD Minor of the Greeks, or hexachordon 

 minor of Holder, &c. has the ratio |, = 41 52+82 + 

 36 m, or the Minor SIXTH, which see. (j) 



HEXAEDRON. See CRYSTALLOGRAPHY. 



HEXAGON. See GEOMETRY, vol. x. p. 221. 



HEXHAM, is a market-town of England, in the 

 county of Northumberland, finely situated on the 

 south side of the river Tyne, at the confluence of 

 the north and south Tyne. The two long streets, of 

 which the town consists, are narrow, and not well 

 built ; but the town contains some good houses. The 

 road from Newcastle to Hallwhistle passes through one 

 of the streets, and the other principal street runs at 

 right angles to this. At the intersection of these streets, 

 stands the spacious market-place in a large square, with 

 a convenient piazza for the butchers market, which has 

 moveable stalls, and which is well supplied with wa- 

 ter from a fountain. The church of Hexham, which 

 forms a part of its ancient monastery, founded in 1112, 

 is highly ornamented in the inside, and contains many 

 fine sepulchral monuments. This church was dedicated 

 to St Andrew, and was much celebrated for its beauty 

 .and extent by ancient historians. It is in the form of a 

 Greek cross. The tower, which is in the centre, ap- 

 pears low and broad, though it has a height of 102 

 I'eet. The architecture is Gothic and Saxon. A dou- 

 ble gallery runs round the whole structure, opening 

 with Saxon arches, each opening being composed of 



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three arches, the middle circular, and the others Heifaan* 

 pointed, with very light pillars. The nave was burnt II 

 down by the Scots in 1296, and nothing remains of it Hc ^ 

 but part of its western door. The choir now forms the ""V 

 parish church, and is crowded with inelegant pews and 

 galleries. The priory stood at the west end of the 

 church; and not many years ago, its cloister and cha- 

 pels were to be seen. There are two ancient stone 

 towers at Hexham, one of which is used as a sessions- 

 house, and formerly belonged to the priors of Hexham. 

 The other is situated on the top of a hill near the Tyne. 



It appears from two Roman inscriptions, found in a 

 crypt of the church, that the Romans had a station, or 

 town, at this place ; for it is obvious, that this was not 

 the Epiacum of the ancients, as Horsley supposed. 

 The crypt, where they were found, is a place fifteen 

 feet by nine, and contains a number of carved stones, 

 which seem to have once formed part of a Roman 

 fortress. 



The town is governed by a bailie chosen annually. 

 The principal employment of the inhabitants consists in 

 tanning leather, and in making shoes, hats, and gloves. 



The following is a statistical abstract of the parish 

 for 1811; 



Inhabited houses, ,- 729 



No. of families, 1171 



Do. employed in trade and manufactures, 639 



Males, 2136 



Females, 2719 



Total Population, 4855 



See Pennant's Tour in Scotland, vol. iii. ; Hutchinson's 

 History of Northumberland; and the Beauties ofEng' 

 land and Wales, vol. xii. p. 158> 168. 



HEXHAM, BATTLE or. See ENGLAND, vol. viii. 

 p. 638. col. 2. 



HEY WOOD, JASPER, D. D. a writer of the age of 

 Queen Elizabeth, and son of the epigrammatist Hey- 

 wood, whom we shall immediately have occasion to men- 

 tion. He was born in London 1535, and studied at Mer- 

 ton College, Oxford ; from whence, according to Wood, 

 he was on the point of being expelled for his irregular 

 life, when he resigned his fellowship. Soon after he 

 repaired to St Omers, and entered into the Society of 

 Jesus at that place. From thence he went to Diling 

 in Switzerland, where he distinguished himself by his 

 learning and zeal for disputing with heretics ; so as to 

 obtain the rank of doctor of divinity. In the year 1581, 

 Pope Gregory the XIII. sent him at the head of the 

 first mission of Jesuits to England, but her majesty 

 shipped him off, with 70 of his associates, out of the 

 kingdom ; and, returning to Italy, he died at Naples, 

 where the zealous catholic Joannes Pittseus contracted 

 an intimacy with him, and speaks of him with great 

 respect. He translated three of the tragedies ascribed 

 to Seneca, viz. the Thuestes, Hercules Furens, and 

 Trnas, in the measure of the syllables, and from that 

 circumstance has obtained a name in poetical biogra- 

 phy, (n) 



HEYWOOD, JOHN, father of the preceding writer, 

 was one of the earliest dramatic writers that England 

 produced. Warton says of him, that he drew the Bible 

 from the stage, and introduced representations of po- 

 pular life, and familiar manners. He was born at North 

 Mims, near St Albans, in Hertfordshire, and in his 

 youth contracted an intimacy with Sir Thomas More, 

 who introduced him to the patronage of the princess 

 (afterwards queen) Mary. His jests, and musical ta- 



