S H Proceedings of PMloiopkml Societies. [Ape i ty 



It belongs tb skilful military men to judge of tliis distinguished 

 performance. What M. de Touloiigeonj Member of the Insti-^ 

 tute, said of it a few da3/s before his death, may be seen in the 

 Moniteur ; and likewise what M. Ch. Dupln, an officer of the 

 corps of Ge^iic Maritime^ distinguished for his mathematical 

 knowledge^ wrote concerning it a few days later. Eleven beau- 

 tiful plates add to the valus of this new edition. 



Memoires de Mciiher.tatlaue^ coiicernwg Nav: gcdiony Physi-" 

 cal Astronomy^ Hislcry. By Pvi. Bcseut. 



" The first three menioiis of thi*> volume eitlier obtained or 

 shared th^ prizes proposed by ihe Academy of Scler.ces j and 

 though they have been printed in ihc collections of that body, it 

 would be difficuitat present to procure them. This induced M. 

 Bossut to reprint them. He has added notes^ and illustrations of 

 several parts of his History of Mathematics. In the notice that 

 we have taken of this histciy, lu a preceding year, we gave the 

 reasons assigned by M. Bossut in his preface for some involun- 

 tary omissions. It appears from the advertisement at ihe com- 

 mencement of his new book that these precautions have not had 

 all the success which he had expected ; but the proof that his 

 protestations were sincere^ appears from the care which he has 

 taken to profit by the notes^ and other pieces of information 

 which have reached him. The volume is terminated by the 

 discourse on the life and writings of Paschal^ which M. Bossut 

 prefixed to the works of that great writer. 



" Elements of Geometry^ with notes. By M. Legendre. 

 New Edition. — Descriptive Geomeiry. By MM. Monge and 

 HACHETfE. 3 J Edition.^Thcory of Curves of the Second 

 Degree, By M. Biot. bth Edition.— Physics of Fischer^ 

 translated from the German, with notes. By M. Biot. 2d 

 Edition. 



" No particulars are necessary respecting works -whose reputa- 

 tion is fixed. As they have been read and meditated by all vv^ho 

 have bought them, we may judge of the good which they have 

 done by the number of editions published in a little time. M. 

 Legendre has inserted in his work the theorems of M. Caiichy 

 respecting polyhedrons. 



" M. Humboldt has published the fifth part of his Vieivs of the 

 Cordelicras, and of his Monuments of the Indigenous Inhabitants 

 of America. We wait with impatience for the fii -t part of his 

 Historic Journal^ which is in the press. 



" The first part of the Analytical Lectures on Mechanics, deli- 

 vered at the hnperial Polytechnic School by M. de Prony, 

 which we announced two years ago, from a copy which the 

 author had commissioned us to present in his name to the Class^ 

 iv-:::. or.ly published during the course of the year 1812, on the 

 retun) of M. de Prony, retained long in Italy by very interest- 

 ing kbouis. 



