444 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
“There are occasions in life in which a great mind lives years of rapt 
enjoyment in a moment, I can fancy the emotions of Galileo, when 
first raising the newly-constructed telescope to. the heavens, he saw ful- 
filled the grand prophecy of Copernicus, and beheld the planet Venus 
crescent like the moon. It was such another moment as that when the 
immortal printers of Mentz and Strasburg received the first copy of the 
Bible into their hands, the work of their divine art; like that when Co- 
lumbus, through the gray dawn of the 12th of October, 1492, (Coper- 
nicus, at the age of eighteen, was then a student at Cracow), beheld the 
shores of San Salvador; like that when the law of gravitation first re- 
vealed itself to the intellect of Newton; like that when Franklin saw 
by the stiffening fibers of the hempen cord of his kite, that he held the 
meeting. Abstracts are not here published, unless contributed by the 
authors, as we hold that an author should have the responsibility of pre- 
senting his own views in a Scientific Journal, 
The Elements of Potential Arithmetic; by Prof. Benjamin Peirce. 
On the N ext Appearance of the Periodical Comet of thirteen years; by Dr. Peters. 
= mre in or Atmosphere; by E. N. Horsford, 
n a Fossible Modification of the method ini sity of the 
earth; by Stephen Alexander, ee 
TE a oui and Calculation of the results of a general process of causation; by 
the Law of Human Mortality ; by C. F. M’Co 
meee ho Discussion of the motion of a body sissies the action of central forces; 
by eirce. 
_ On Acoustics as applied to public buildings: by Prof 
Notes on the Progress made in the Co. arte ay bree les for the tides 
of the Coast of the United States ; by A. D. te Ha upalecarc 
