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An Eulogy 071 General George Washington j tro" 



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nounced before the Academy, February 19, 1800. i5y John Da- 

 vis, Recording Secretary of the Academy, 



ASTRONOMICAL and MATHEMATICAL PAPERS. 



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^ew Method of Working a Lunar Ohfervatioft, By Na- 



thaniel Bowditch, a.a.s. 



Afironomical Problem, Having the times when a circumpoi- 



larjlarpajfed the thread of a t clef cope ^ above and below 

 the pole, to determine the a%imiith of the telefcope, and the 



times when thefarpaffed the meridian. By Theophi- 



Lus Parsons, Efq. a.a.s. 



"Remarks on an Eclipfe of the Moonfeen at Jenfalcm, not 

 long before the death of Herod, and mentioned by fofe- 



phus. By James Winthrop, Efq, a. a. s. 20 



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Defcription of a new invented Steelyard, By 'Qei^jamin 



Dearborn, f.a. a 



A method offnding the Area of a f eld arithmetically. By 



Elizur Wright, a. m. 



Remarks on Mr, Winthrofs paper on the duplication of the 



Cube in part \Ji of this volume. By George Baron, 

 late Mafer of the Mathematical Academy at South 

 Shields, in the county of Durham, in England, 40 



Mr, Joseph Pope'/ defcrptioa of an Orrery of his confruc- 



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PHYSICAL 



