454 
S T A 
filing of a mercurial level, for taking the co 
Tranf, 
Abridg. 
altitude of fun cr flar at fea, without rhe ufua 
l 
affiflance of the fenfible horizon, which fre 
quently is obfcured - Leigl 
b XL417 
VIII 362 
Stars. (Fixed) A letter concerning an apparent mo 
tion obferved in fome of the fixed ltars, ow- 
ing to a nutation of the earth’s axis Bradley 
- Remarks on the mutations of the liars 
v XLV 1 
X 32 
Barker 
Li 498 
A letter containing the refults of obfervations of 
the diflance of the moon from the fun and fixed 
liars, made in a voyage from England to the 
ifland of St Helena, in order to determine 
the longitude of the Ihip from time to time, 
together with the whole procefs of computation 
LII 558 
ufed on the occafion - Majkdyne 
— Concife rules for computing the efre£ls of re* 
fraction and parallax in varying the apparent 
diflance of the moon from the fun or a liar ; 
alfo an eafy rule of approximation for com- 
puting the diflance of the moon from a liar, 
the longitude and latitude of both being given ; 
with demonfirations of the fame Majkelyne 
An inquiry into the probable parallax and 
magnitude of the fixed ftars, from the quantity 
of light which they afford us, and the par- 
ticular circumflances of their fituation 
LIV 263 
Michell 
Stars. (Particular) Obfervations of the flar, called 
Nebulofa, in the girdle of Andromeda, and of 
the wondrous flar in the neck of the Whale 
LVII 234 
Bullialdm 
— — Obfervations on the new flar near the beak 
of the Swan, and the other in the neck of the 
II 459 
I 251 
Whale - - Hevelius 
— Account of a new one difcovered in the conflel- 
V 2023 
— 304 
lationofthe Swan in 1670 - N Hevelius 
Account from Paris of the earlier difcovery of 
• — 2087 
248 
the fame ftar - Oldenburg 
«— — Further obfervations of the new liar, near the 
— 2092 
beak of the Swan - - Hevelius 
VI 2197 
— 250 
Another account from the Journal des Scavans 
— Obfervations concerning three new flars, one in 
the Whale’s neck, the other two near the head 
— - 2198 
— 247 
and in the breafl of the Swan Hevelius 
«— Letter concerning drawing the meridian line 
XII 853 
by 
