THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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nius or invention, but well acquainted with chemiflry and mine¬ 
ralogy. He is bergrat, or counfellor of the college of miners. 
Mr. Nicander, compiler of the Swedifh almanacks. 
Mr. Landerbeck, author, as I believe, of a paper publifhed in 
the tranfa&ions of the royal fociety of London, “ De Methodo 
inveniendi Curvas ex datis radiorum Ofculi proprietatibus.” 
When he was firft propofed as a member by Ferner, he was re¬ 
jected ; but on his producing a letter of recommendation from 
England, as is faid, he was admitted. 
Mr. Nordmark, formerly profeflor of mathematics at Griefle 
walde; now profeflor of natural philofophy at Upfala. He is the 
author of feveral memoirs publifhed among the aCts of the aca¬ 
demy, and of one publifhed lately under the title of “ Lacunae in 
ct doCtrina proportionum Euclidea animadverfae, expletio,” in 
which he undertakes to obviate the objections of Dr. Robert 
Simfon, profeflor in the univerfity of Glafgow, to the fifth and 
feventh definitions in the fifth book of Euclid ;* and in which he 
has clearly fhewn that Euclid’s method of treating proportions is 
flriCtly mathematical. He is one of the moft learned and en¬ 
lightened men in the univerfity of CJpfala : he is not only ac¬ 
quainted with the modern languages, and with Greek and Latin, 
but is alfo a great proficient in Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac. 
Mr. Lidtgren, aftronomical obferver at Lund. 
Mr. Schulten, profeflor in the military fchool at Carlberg : 
lie has made hydrographical charts of the gulph of Bothnia ; and 
* See Simfon’s Elements of Euclid. 
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