
1800.) 
3799, at 18" 13’ 47” medium Parifian 
time; in 0S 230 53° 7”. . The refult of 
their obfervations nearly correfponded with 
Lalande’s Tables; 5” at moft fhould be 
added to the central equation, and 3” be 
deduéted from the inclination of the orbit, 
and 30” from the fecular motion. 
Messier faw at Paris the comet for the 
laft time on the 25th of Oftober, 1799. 
It was then near a ftar of the fixth magni- 
tude, in the knee of Ophiuchus, at 6® 32! 
45° true Parifian time; dire¢t afcenfion 
354° 57° 50”; aberration fouth 13° 2! 12”. 
The comet could be only once compared 
with the ftar; as the heavens became fud- 
Genly ‘overcatt. 
Citizen Fortia, of Avignon, is print- 
ing at Parisa new edition cf the Greek 
Text of the Treatife of Ariftarchus of 
Samos, with a Latin and French tranflation, 
to which he has added very learned notes. 
LaLANDE has written an eulogy on his 
friend and countryman (they were born in 
the fame department) General JouBERT, 
who fo glorioufly fell in Italy. Bowna- 
PaRTE had the complacency to revife and 
correct this tribute to the mémory of bis 
brother in arms. 
BurckHarpdT has read to the Na- 
TIONAL INsTITWTE a Treatife on the 
mean Motions of the Planets, drawn from 
Arabian Obfervations. 
From feveral new and accurate obferva- 
tions, the true longitude of Naples has 
been determined to be 47’ 35 to 36” eaf 
from Paris. 
A ftop has been put to the printing of 
LaLanDe’s Hilaire Céleffe, and of his Bz- 
bhographie Afirononique, tor want of a fup- 
ply of money neceflary to defray the ex- 
pences. Lalande complained of this delay 
to his brother aftronomer, La PLACE, now 
minifter of the interior, who anfwered, that 
he had no money, as the minifter of war 
feized it all for military purpoles. To 
complete the Hz/foire Céleffe, only 120 
pages are wanting, containing obferva- 
tions by Dagelet. La Piace wifhes 
much to have the printing of the Tables 
of Decimal Sinufes completed, which Borda 
caufed to be calculated by Cerz/er, and for 
which he gave him 1200 livres. La Place 
had undertaken to print them at his own 
expence, but Borda’s heirs. have not yet 
determined whether they will publith them 
on their own account, or fell them. La- 
lande {ays that they are very incorreétly 
rinted. 
/ Rizzit-Zawnoni, the celebrated geo- 
grapher, is going to Paris, with the inten- 
tien of ending his days in France, He 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence, 
16k 
carries with him an immenfe geographical 
port-folio. Rizzi-Zannoni is faid to pof- 
fefs about twelve thoufand maps and geo- | 
graphical draughts. the numerous maps 
pubsifhed by him are well known to ali 
geographers, efpecially his maps of Poe 
land, America, and Naples. Of his 
Carta geogr. del Regno di Napoli eleven 
numbers have appeared. His Atlante ma- 
ritimo che gontiene il perimetro littorale de 
Regno di Napolt confifts of twenty-five 
fheets, and cofts fifreen and a half ducatz. 
His Atlas of Italy has not been completed, 
only twelve maps of it having yet been 
publifhed. Of the Venetian and Paduan 
territory four fheets have appeared, which 
he had drawn for a Nobile Contarini. OF 
Jate he has been occupied with the publi. 
cation of a new map della Lombardia colle 
fue Regiont aggiunti, tour theets; another 
map della Italia Cifalpiga, four fheets, 
from the Maritime Alps to Buccari and ~ 
Fiume; and amap of Da/maiia, in one - 
fheet. Rizzi-Zannoni was born at Ve- 
nice in 47383 went to Paris, was fent to 
Germany during the feven years war, ree 
turned to Paris; embarked for America, 
where he remained five years, and drew 
his map of America; then returned to 
Venice, whence he was invited to Naples~ 
by the Chevalier d’Aéton, Neapolitan mi- 
nifter of marine. 
At Michaelmas next, the fecond volume 
of M. PaLtas’s New Travels will be 
publifhed at Leipzig by Godfried Marti- 
ni. This fplendid and interefting work 
will be accompanied with fifteen large 
views in the Crimea, and a number of 
copper plates, vignettes, and large maps. 
At the fame time with the original Ger- 
man, will appear a French tranfla- 
tion. 
M. Pa.tas has likewife refolved to 
communicate to the botanical public his 
Monographies of the following genera of 
plants, Salfola, Afiragalus, Pedicularis, 
Hedyfarum, Artemifia, of whole numerous 
fpecies hardly one half are yet known. 
The firft number of this work will be 
publifhed at Ealter, and contains a defcrip- 
tion of the 4/fragalus Lin. of which M. 
Pallas has collected a great number of 
fpecies frcm Eurepe, Afia, and efpecially 
from the Ruffian empire. Linnzus was 
acquainted with only 50 fpecies of this ge- 
nus, which Pallas has increafed to 1136, 
The figures were drawn from wild, and 
mofily frefh, {pecimens, by the mafterly 
hand of M. GEIssLerR, M. Pailas’s fel- 
low-traveller. Each aumber will contain, 
befides letter-prefs, eight copper- plates, 
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