through the, Preanger Regencies ip Java, , 
quently pursued, in vaip, till at lengtiy the party were succ^^s- 
ful enough to pyertalf^e.# c?pnplp pf .them. One of these beasts 
'was shot' ne^r yhe, mpuntain of fapandayang, and the other dose 
to Momrt T^lag^; Bodas. j Both are sepured to increase the coi- 
iection of natpraj objects, ;^hich,thi^ suceepsful jour^^ has prfy- 
cured, fop the Mp^pum, already so by the 
enterprise; and .scientific ,ai:dpu,r, of . the Professor and tiis copi- 
panionSf /' ;; , . , ^ , 
Aet. N, ’^History of the , , Invention of Pendulum Clocks by 
Christian IIuy.g.ens, ^ By J. H. Van S winden. Council - 
lor of : ^tate,. prufes^op of .Philos^ at Amsterdam, &c, 
(Couclpded frotii , Vof .V L p, SfS.) , 
g.''JBuT 5 it lias been spid that Huygens got intelligence through 
his father and Deodati of Galileo’s labours. It is true, Deodati 
wrote to Constantine Huygens, father of the philosopher, and 
Secretary fo, Prince Frederic Henry, pending the above nego- 
ciatipns with:. the Stages-, General ; for, his letters are of the year 
IbSTr . but dbey contain only the same, intelligence which has 
already been given, (%e. Galilei Pp. iii- p., 432.^^, and Huygens 
could learn nothing tnore: than what shortly after appeared in 
the except pe^rhaps his notion of the pin and 
wheel, tp indicate- the nunib€)r of oscillations without the trouble 
of counting thein, —a thing as, totally different from the principle 
adopted by Hnygens to regulate clocks by means of ^ the pen- 
dulum, as any of ,the\ attempts of Hook and Hevelius, who, 
however, never claimed the discovery of its application to clocks. 
And, as to a clpck or model having been sent over to Holland, 
we only learn, from a letter of Deodati of the same year^ that 
if the States desired, Galileo would send what he had promised, 
to-rwit, a very perfect telescope, with the method he had 
found of using them on board vessels, whilst ip an agitated sea ; 
the observations, about the motions of the satellites of Jupiter, 
and the constructipn (fabricam) of the very accurate ^oroZo- 
invented by , him ; and that he would explain all his in- 
most thoughts on this subject in words and writing.” This 
