S/4 ' BEL 
tres.) Some comprehend under the term, all thofe in- 
ftrubtive and pleating fciences which occupy the memory 
and the judgment, and do not make part either of the fu- 
perior fciences, of the polite arts , or of mechanic profef- 
lions: hence they make hiftory, chronology, geography, 
genealogy, philology, &c. the belles lettres. In a word, 
it were an endlefs talk to attempt to enumerate all the parts 
of literature which different learned men have compre¬ 
hended under this title. 
BELLES'ME, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftribt, in the department of the Orne ; it contains a- 
bout 2500 inhabitants : three leagues fouth of Mortagne, 
and fix and a half eaft-fouth-eaft of Alenyon. 
BELLEVES'VRE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Saone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftridft of Louhans; four leagues and a half N. N. E. 
Lotihans, and fix and a half eaft of Chalons fur Saone. 
BELLEV IL'LE, a town of France, in the department 
of Paris, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
St. Denis : hatf a league eaft of Paris. 
Belleville, a town of France, in the department of 
the Rhone and Loire, and chief place of a eanton, in the 
di ftridt of Villefranche : nine leagues eaft of Raanae, and 
two and a half north of Villefranche. 
Belleville, a town of France, in the department of 
Vendee, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of La 
Roche-fur-Yon • one league north of La Roche, and four 
fouth, of Montaigne. 
BELLEVOIS', a celebrated painter of fea-pieces, 
knowm through all parts of Europe as a great artift, though 
no particulars have been handed down concerning his life. 
He died in 1684. His fubjcfts are views of havens, fea- 
ports, ihores, calms, and (forms at fea : but his calms 
have the greateft excellence. 
BEL'LEY, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftrift, in the department of the Ain, before the revolu¬ 
tion the capital of Bugey, and lee of a bilhop, lituated be- 
tween the mountains, about two miles from the Rhone : 
eleven leagues fouth-eaft of Bourg en Brefte, and twelve 
eaft of Lyons. Lat. 45.45. N. Ion. 23. 21. F. Ferro. . 
BEL'LrBONE.y'. [belle & bonne, Fr.] A woman ex¬ 
celling both in beauty and goodnefs. A word now out ofufe. 
Pan may be proud that ever he begot 
Such a bcllibone. Spenfer. - 
BELLID 1 AS'TRUM,/. in botany. See Doronicum. 
BELL 1 DIOPDES,/. See Chrysanthemum. 
BELLI'GERANT, or Belligerous, adj. [ begiller .] 
Waging war. 
BEL'LING,/. A hunting term, fpoken of a roe, when 
jfhe makes a noife in rutting time. 
BEL'LINGHAM, in the county of Northumberland, 
is thirty-two miles north-weft from Newcaftle, feventeen 
miles north from Hexam, fix miles north of Simonburn, 
and nine miles fotuh-weft from Elfdon. Twenty-five 
Jioufes were burnt down in this fmall place on the 25th of 
Augult, 17S0. Here is a fair annually on the 15th of Sept. 
BELLPNI (Gentil), a Venetian painter, born in 1421. 
He was employed by the republic of Venice, and to him 
and his brother the Venetians are indebted for the noble 
paintings which are to be feen in the council-hall. We 
are told that Mahomet II. having feen fotne of his perfor¬ 
mances, was foil ruck with them, that he wrote to the repub¬ 
lic for him. The painter accordingly went to Conftantinople, 
where he executed many admirable pieces. He painted 
the decollation of St. John the Baptifl, whom the Turks 
revere as a great prophet. Mahomet admired the propor¬ 
tion and fhadowing, but he remarked one defect in regard 
to the ikin of the neck, from which the head was feparat- 
ed ; and in order to prove the truth of his obfervation, he 
lent for a (lave and ordered his head to be (truck off; to 
compare it with the picture. This fo (hocked the painter, 
that could not be eafy till he had obtained his difmiftion ; 
which the grand fignior granted, and made him a prefent 
of a gold chain. The republic fettled a penfion upon him 
BEL 
at his return, and made him a knight of St. Mark. He 
died in 1501, in the 80th year of his age. John Bellini, 
his brother, painted with great art and fweetnefs, and 
died in 1512, aged ninety. 
Bellini (Laurence), an eminent phyfician, born at 
Florence in 1643. After having finifhed his ftudiesin po¬ 
lite literature, he went to Pifa, where he was afTifted by 
the generofity of the grand duke Ferdinand IL and ftudied 
under two of the moll learned men of that age, Oliva and 
Borelli. Oliva inftrufted him in natural philofophy, and 
Borelli taught him mathematics. At twenty years of age, 
he was chofen profeflor of philofophy at Pifa, but did not 
continue long in this office ; for he had acquired fuch a_ 
reputation for his (kill in anatomy, that the grand duke 
procured him a profefTorffiip in that fcience. Bellini, af¬ 
ter having held his profefibrffiip almoft thirty years, went 
to Florence, where he prabtifed phyfic with great fucceft, 
and was appointed ftrft phyfician to the grand duke Col- 
mus III. He wrote the following books in Latin; 1. An 
anatomical Difcourfe on the Structure and Ufe of the 
Kidneys. 2. A Speech by way of Thanks to the Duke of 
Tufcany. 3. Anatomical Obfervations, and a Propolition 
in Mechanics. 4. Of the Urine and Pulfe, &c. &c. 5. 
Trafts concerning the Motion o-f the Heart and Bile, &c. 
He died January 8, 170,3, being fixty years of age. His 
works were read and explained publicly by Dr. Pitcarin, 
profelforof phyfic in Leyden. 
BELLINZO'NA, a town of Swiflerland, and capital of 
a fmall country on the eaft fide of the Alps, on the con¬ 
fines of the Milanefe, fituated at the northern extremity 
of Lake Maggiora, at the conflux of the Tefin and the 
Molfa : this country formerly belonged to the biffiopric 
of Como from a pretended or real grant of the kings of 
Lombardy, but was annexed to the Swifs cantons of Uri, 
Schwitz, and Underwalden, and confirmed to them in the 
year 1616. The richnefs of the country confifts in its paf- 
turage and cattle. The corn produced is not fufficient for 
the confumption of the inhabitants, who are fupplied by 
the Milanefe. The town is fortified: twenty-five miles 
north-north-weft of Como, and forty fouth of Zurich. 
Lat. 46. 1. N. Ion. 26. 21. E. Ferro. 
BELLPPOTENT, adj. [ 'oellipotens , Fr.] Ptiiftant j 
mighty in war. 
BEL'LIS,y. [^f/Zzir.Lat. pretty,handfome.] TheDAisY. 
In botany, a genus of the clafs fyogenefia, order polyga- 
mia fuperfltta, natural order compofitae difcoideae. The 
generic charafters are—Calyx : common, hemifpheric, 
upfight; leaflets to twenty in ?, double row, lanceolate, 
equal. Corolla : compound, radicate ; corollules herma¬ 
phrodite, tubular, numerous in the difk ; female ligulate, 
more in number than the leaves of the calyx in the ray; 
proper of the hermaphrodite funnel-form, five-cleft; of 
the female ligulate, lanceolate, fcarcely three-toothed. 
Stamina: of the hermaprodite filaments five, capillary, 
veryffiort; anthera cylindric, tubular. Piftillum : germ 
ovate; c-f the hermaphrodite ftyle fimple, ftigma emargi- 
nate; of the female, ftyle filiform ; ftigmas two, patulous. 
Pericarpium : none; calyx unchanged. Seeds: folitary, 
obovate, comprefted ; down none. Receptaculum : nak¬ 
ed, conical.— EJfential Char aider. Calyx; hemifpheric, 
with equal fcales; feeds ovate, with no down ; recepta¬ 
culum naked, conical. 
Species, j. Beilis perennis, or perennial or common 
daily : fcape naked. Common daily is fufficiently diftin- 
guiffied by its perennial root; truncate or pnemorfe at the 
end ; leaves radical, inverfely ovate or lanceolate, or ra¬ 
ther fpatulate, blunt at the end, notched and often waved 
about the edge, an inch or more in length and about half 
an inch in breadth; fcapes hirfute, folid at bottom, hol¬ 
low at top, frc*n two to four inches long, having fome- 
times a fingle leaf, and terminated by one radiate flower, 
frequently near an inch in diameter : florets in the difk 
yellow, numerous (one hundred and fifty) ; in the ray 
white, often purple on the outfide, and fometimes at the 
tip, amounting frequently to near fifty in number: recep¬ 
tacle 
