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tranflation of thefe fables by Abraham, a Jew. 5. Briefe 
nebjl einer praktifchen Abhandlung von dem guten Gefchmak in 
Briefen —Letters, together with a praftical Treatife on 
good Talte in Letter-writing, ibid, 1751, 8-vo. 6. Lchrge- 
dicht und Erzdlungen —Didaftic Poems and Tales, ibid. 
1754.. 7. Sammlung vermifchter Schriften —Colleftion of 
Mifcellaneoiis Pieces, ibid. 1757, 8vo. %. Gcifliche Oden 
und Lieder —Sacred Odes and Hymns, ibid. 1757, 8vo, 
9. Gelkrts und Rabeners achtzehn Briefc —Gellert’s and Ra- 
bener’s eighteen Letters, ibid. 1760. 10. Von der Bef- 
chajfenheit’devi Umfan^ und Nutzen der Moral —On the Na¬ 
ture, Extent, and Ufe of Morality, ibid. 1766, 8vo, 
II. Moralifche Vorlefungen —Moral Effays, publiflied after 
the author’s death, by J. A. Schlegel and G. L. Heyer, 
ibid. 1770, 2 vols. 8vo. 12. Sammtliche Schriften —Com¬ 
plete Colleftion of his Works, ibid. 1766, 10 vols. 8vo. 
this is a beautiful edition, but incomplete : a new edi¬ 
tion improved by fome of his’friends appeared after his 
death at Leiplic, in eight volumes, with engravings. 
13. Anhang zu feinem Sdmmtliche Schriften —Appendix to 
his Works, 1770. 
GELL'HEIM, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and principality of NalTau Weilburg; 
thirteen miles welt of Worms, and twenty-three north- 
vvefl of Manheim. 
GEL'LI (Giambatida), an Italian poet, born at Flo¬ 
rence in 1498. He was of mean origin, and followed 
the trade of a cordwainer. He was not void, however, 
of the advantages of education, and he became diftin- 
guiflied for literature in his native place, and was one of 
tlic chief ornaments of the academy degli Umidi. His 
two prcfe comedies, entitled La Sporta and VErrore, 
were accounted the bed compodtions of the kind then 
in tlie language. He trandated into Italian from the 
Greek, the Hecuba of Piurijudes. His other works are 
/ Capprici del Bottaio, condfting of dialogues, which are 
laid to be faulty in point of decency ; other dialogues, 
chiefly on phyfical topics, entitled La Circe-, fome re¬ 
marks on the difficulty of reducing the Italian language 
to rule ; dilfertations upon the. poems of Dante and Pe¬ 
trarch ; other tranflations, verfes, &c. He died in 1563. 
GEL'LIBRAND (Henry), an Englidi mathematician 
and adronomer in the feventeenth century, born at Lon¬ 
don in 1597. When he was eighteen years of age he was 
admitted a commoner of Trinity college, in Oxford, 
where in 1619 he took his degree of bachelor of arts. 
He very early conceived a drong inclination for the ma¬ 
thematics, upon accidentally hearing one of dr Henry 
Saville’s leftures in that fcience, and applied to it with 
equal diligence and fuccefs. Having taken orders, he 
fettled as a curate at Chiddingdone, in Kent ; but his 
paffion for mathematical dudies determined him to quit 
tliat dtuaiion, and to return to the univerdty. Here his 
foie attention v/as devoted to the mathematics, in which 
he made fuch proficiency at the time of his taking his 
degree of mader of arts in 1623, that he attrafted the 
friendffiip of feveral able mathematicians who flouridted 
at H);tt time, particularly of the celebrated Henry Briggs, 
then Savilian profeflbr of geometry at Oxford. While 
he continued in the purfuit of thefe dudies, the profef. 
forffiip of adronomy in Gre/ham college, London, be¬ 
coming vacant by the death of the celebrated Gunter, 
Mr. Gellibrand became a candidate, and was chol'en to 
fill that pod by the eledtors, in January 1626. From 
that time he lived in a clofe intimacy with Mr. Briggs, 
who took great plcafure in communicating to him his 
mathematical difcoveries, and at the time of his death 
confided to him the tafl< of completing his Britidi Tri- 
gononietry, which he did not live to finiffi. Mr. Gel¬ 
librand having added to it a preface, and the application 
of the logarithms to plane, and fpherical trigonometry, 
condituting the fecond book of the work, the whole was 
printed at Gouda in Holland, under the care of Adrian 
Vlacq, in 1663. o.nt\x\eA,Trigonomelria Britannica, 
Jive de DoBrittaTriaAgulorum, Libri duoy Sic. folio. From 
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Mr. Gellibrand’s fituation at Grelliam college, and his 
intercourfe with the lovers of mathematical dudies, he 
had an opportunity of contributing feveral pieces to the 
improvement of navigation, which fcience would pro¬ 
bably have been fartlier benefited by him, had he not 
been immaturely carried off by a fever in 1636, in the 
fortieth year of his age. Befides his part of the Trigo- 
nometria Britannica, he was the author of An Appendix 
concerning Longitude, fubjoined to Captain Thomas 
James’s Voyage for the Difeovery of the North-wed 
Paffage, 1633, 4to. 2. A Difeourfe matliematical on tlie 
Variation of the magnetic Needle ; together with the 
admirable Diminution lately difeovered ; annexed to 
Wright’s Errors in Navigation detedtgd, &c. 1635, 4to. 
3. A Preface to the Sciographia of John Weils, of 
Brambridge, Efq. 1635, 8vo. 4. Aninditution trigono¬ 
metrical, explaining the Docfritie of plane and fpherical 
Triangles, after the mod exact and compendious Way, 
by Tablesof Sines, Tangents, &:c. with tlie Application 
tliereof to Quedionsof Adronomy and Navigation, 1634, 
8vo. and afterwards republilhed with enlargements by 
William Leybourn, 1652, 8vo. 3. An Epitome of Navi¬ 
gation, with the neceff.uy Tables, &c. and an Appendix 
concerning the Ufe of the Quadrant, For.e-daff, and 
Nocturnal, 8vo. 6. Oratio in Laudem GaJJendi AJlronoynia, 
habila in Aula JEdis Chrifti, Oxon and of feveral unpub- 
lidied manuferipts on the DoCtrine of Eclipfes, Lunar 
Adronomy, Ship-building, &c. 
GEL'LIUS (Aulus), called by fome writers Agel- 
.LIUS, a learned Roman grammarian and critic, fiou- 
ridied at Rome, his native city, in the fccond century, 
under the emperors Adrian and Antoninus Pius, and died 
at the beginning of the reign of Marcus Aurelius A.nto- 
ninus. He dudied grammar under Sulpicius Apollina- 
ris, and rhetoric under Titus Cadritius and Antonins 
Julianus. In his youth, he vilited Athens, and enjoyed 
tlic fociety of many learned men, particulai ly Calviiius 
Taurus, Peregrinus, Proteus, andlierodes Atticus. To 
gratify a laudable curiolit}-, and to colleCt literary and 
philofophical information, he travelled through a great 
part of Greece. On his return to Rome he devoted 
himfelf to the dudy and praCfice of the law, and was 
appointed a judge. He was converfant with the ancient 
writers on tlie Roman law, and ranked among his friends 
many refpeCfable lawyers of his own time. The fre¬ 
quent citations which are made from his work by writers 
on Roman law, render it probable that he poffelfed a 
confiderable ffiare of profeffional reputation. The Nodes 
Attica of Aulus Gellius may be jultly allowed a refpeCf- 
able place among the treafures of antiquity. The au¬ 
thor, as he himfelf informs us in his preface, gave the 
name of Attic Nights to his work, from the circumdance 
that a great part of it was vvritten wliile he refided in 
Athens, and furnidied an amufing occupation for many 
long winter evenings. Fiis object w'as, to provide his 
children as well as himfelf with that kind of entertain¬ 
ment, with W'hich they miglit properly relax and indulge 
themfelves, in the intervals of more important bufinels. 
From the manner in whicli the collection was made, its 
contents are neceffarily mifcellaneoiis, and of unequal 
value. “Whatever book,’’ lays he, “ came into my 
hand, whether it was Greek or Latin, or whatever ! 
lieard, that was either worthy of being recorded, or 
agreeable to my fancy, 1 wrote down without didinCtion 
and v/ithout order.’’ Thefe minutes became the bads 
of this work, in which the author takes up liis collec¬ 
tions in the fame accidental arrangement in which they 
were made, and comments upon tliem. The work con- 
fids of a vad variety of critical obfervations upon au- 
tiiors; of hidorical and biographical anecdotes, witli re¬ 
flections 5 of brief difeuflions on various topics, gram¬ 
matical, antiquarian, moral, philofophical, phyfical, 
&c. among which, if many things be trivial, or unin- 
tereding, there are alfo much amufing information, and 
many ingenious obfervations: it is.particularly valu- 
3 able, 
