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deftined charafter, and gave himfelf up entirely to the ftudy 
of {cholaftic theology. In 1428 he was a ta are 8 
orders, and foon became a licenfed prea 
followed this ects very ma before a “felt an incination 
~for the {cience ch was, in a fhort time, irrefiftible, and 
rapid i ata in thofe branches of knowledge for which 
thele philofophers were diftinguithed. By the former he was 
as an aflociate in his eleGrical fics and the 
‘aris under the patronage of cardinal 
ury, and the abbé Nollet was the firft perfon who re- 
ceived that apcoin - uri he following year, the 
al Academy of Sciences appointed him adjuné me 
chanician to that body, and in 1742 he was admitted an af- 
before the royal fam 
Turin he made a ia a Italy, 
any ob- 
fervations, and colle& 
munica- 
acts. To examine into thefe eleGtrical miracles, as they 
were then thought, and to be affured of their truth or 
allacy, was a grand motive with our author in pafling the 
Alps at this time, and in vifiting = sane vee who had 
dae accounts of tho But though he 
into the 
the {chools of artillery and engineers on after this laft 
inftance of preferment he was received a pen y of the 
oyal Academy of Sc T brated naturalift 
cien 
and experimental piilblopher died i in 1770, deeply a 
by that part of the public, of all countries, who wer 
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pable of appreciating his worth, as well as by the numerous 
friends whofe attachment he had fecured by the amiablenefs _ 
of his manners and the goodnefs of his heart. Inde- 
agp of a vaft number of papers a by the ante 
the different Mag ae of the “ Memoires’’ of the Aca 
jay of Sciences h 1767, he was 
author of <«“ Releclieel fur = Cates paticulices des Phe- 
nomenés ap ei 1749, 12mo; * Lettre o< ur 1’Elec- 
tricité,”’ 12mo, ace 1760, 17675 cons de 
Phyfique,’’ 6 tom. 12mo, 17645 “ fla fie PEearicité 
des Corps ;”’ *“* L’ Andes pe mea 3 tom. See Prieft- 
ley’s Hitt. of EleGtricity, 4to. p. 100 and other parts; alfo 
Cavallo’s Complete Treatife on Eledtricity, in three vols. 
Likewife the articles Exectricity, and others relating to 
the fame fubject in vol. xii. of the New Cyclopedia. Alfo 
Circuit, Lrypen Phial, &c. 
_NOLLIN, Dennis, a French biblical critic, who flou- 
ever, at- 
tached to theological ftudies, he directed his whole attention 
to the holy erly and quitted his legal profeffion. He 
was a moft diligent colleCtor of whatever might tend to 
elucidate the wacnes: of the prophets, apoftles, &c. and 
his library is faid to have contained a greater number of 
editions of the bible, of tranflations, and. of commentaries 
on the fcriptures, than had ever before belonged to any in- 
dividual. This library, at his death, which happened in 
He publithe 
r de Tournemine., author alfo o 
Abbé i 
- ee of M. Richard Simon, relpetng the a aie 
he Chaldeans and Egyptians 
“ » in Geography, one of ce {mal ler Faroer 
iflands ; fix miles §, of Olteroe. N. lat. 65° 10’. W. long. 
° 38! 
a 
5 
OM pe Jesus, a town of the ifland of Zebu, one of 
the 7 i a iflands, the fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of 
Man 
NOMA » Nome, (from vw, to eat aways) in Surgery, 
a phagedenic ulcer, or a {pecies of herpe 
ES, Nopodesy from yeuw, 1 “fied, a name given, 
in Antiquity, to feveral nations, or people, whofe whole oc- 
cupation was to feed and tend their flocks; and who had 
Africa, who inhabited between Africa, properly fo called, 
to the eaft, and Mauritania to the weft. They are alfo 
called Numide, or Numidians. Salut fays, they were a 
colony of Perfians, brought into Africa me | Hercules. The 
Nomades of Afia inhabited the coafts of the Cafpian fea. 
next to them were the Attali, who were accuftomed to m 
incurfions on the country of the haldwans, in the vicinity 
of the Euphrates. The Arabian Nomades, and the Attali, 
were 
