1607.] 
has refused the office of a bishop, and the 
Emperor has given him a pension of 
6000 livres of Milan. 
The Ephemerides of M. Bode, for 
1806, which have not yet reached us, 
contain Observations, Memoirs by M. 
Bode ; Messrs. Méchain, of Paris; ‘Tries- 
necker, of Vienna; David, of Prague; 
Beittler, of Mittau; Wurm, of Blaubeuren; 
Biigee, of Copenhagen; Dertlinger, of 
Kremsminster; Schroter, of Lilienthal ; 
Jungnitz, of Breslau; Benzevberg, of 
Hamburg; Harding, of Eihenthal; Ol- 
bers, of Bremen; Gauss, of Brunswick ; 
Fritsch, of Quedlingburg; Seytlert, of 
Dresden; Ende, of Celle; Prosperin, of 
Upsal; Kautsch, of Leutomischel ; Schu- 
bert, of Petersburgh; Brandes, of Eck- 
warden; Hahn, of Remplin ; Melander- 
hielm, of Stockholm; Klugel, of Halle; 
Koch, of Dantzic ; Maskelyne’s new Ca- 
talogue; Letters from Messrs. Piazzi, 
Lalande, Ideler, Fuss, Eimbecke, Rep- 
sold, Wechmar, Reissig, Soldner, and 
Barja. We may judye by this catalogue 
of the industry of the Germans, in astro- 
nemical pursuits; it were much to be 
wished that a similar spirit prevailed in 
France. 
M. Bode has published a new and en- 
larged edition of his small Celestial Atlas 
of 1782, in thirty-four sheets, with a Ca- 
talogue of 500 stars. M. Buia has 
finished his Astronomy, in five volumes 
8vo. and I myself published in the Ma- 
gazine Encyclopédique, for the month 
of August, a singular calculation made by 
an auonymous astronomer, in Germany, 
who ascertained that the six old planets 
would return to the same spot in 280,000 
years.- M. Mougin, has ascertamed that, 
in fact, the differences do not exceed the 
errors which the length of that period 
should produce according to the obser- 
vatious that have been made during two 
thousand years, or rather two hundred 
years, since the more early observations 
are found to be extremely inaccurate. 
M. Poczobut, in spite of his great age, 
still displays an example of uncommon 
zeal and courage. He lias transmitted 
me a course of curious observations made 
upon the planet Harding, along with M, 
Reschka, professor of astronomy at Wil- 
na, in Poland. 
_ M. Gauss has calculated the six ele- 
ments of this planet, which differ very 
little from the preceding ones, but which 
will require alterations when this en- 
lightened geometrician shall have finished 
the calculation of the perturbations, with 
which he is occupied. 
Monrury Mac., No, 162, 
Lalande’s History of Astronomy for 1806. 248 
M. Schroter, has made some further, 
investigation respecting the position of 
the axis of Mars, its atmosphere, and ita 
spots, 
The Memoirs of Berlin, for 1803, which 
appeared in May, 1805, contain nume- 
rous observations by .Mi. Bode, made at 
the Royal Observatory of Berlin. 
The echpse ofthe sup on the Gtuof Tune, 
was the most. remarkabie phenomenon 
that occurred during 16006, because it was 
total in the United Siates. It was ob- 
served in three diferent piaces in Ame- 
rica, and served me for caiculating the 
solar and lunar diameters, by comparing 
it with the ebservations of the annular 
eclipses, as may be seen in the Memoirs 
of the Institute, It is rather surprising, 
that it should not_have been observed at 
Boston, where there is an academy; but 
Mr. Deferrer, an Englishman, settled at 
New York, took a journey to Albany, 
for the express purpose of observing it, 
M. Richard, a missionary on the banks 
of Lake Erie, had likewise an opportu- 
nity of viewing it; and I conclude the 
difference of meridians to be 5,, 36’, 
which confirms the position given in the 
chart of the United States, by Abraham 
Bradley. 
This eclipse was observed at fifteen 
different places in Europe, whence I de- 
termined the time of the conjunction at 
44. 30’ 6” true time at Paris, and the la- 
titude 19’ 20”, The correction of the 
Tables of M. Burg is 28”, and in Jati- 
tude 3”, 
M. Goudin has calculated several of 
these observations by an analytical me- 
thod derived from that which he pub- 
lished in order to calculate, by antici- 
pation, the phases of an eclipse for all 
the countries of the globe. 
They have inserted in the Connoissance 
des Tems the chart of the eclipse of the 
sun on the 29th of November, 1807; 
but have omitted the general disposition 
calculated for alllatitudes by M. Goudin, 
and that of the principal cities by M. 
Duvaucel; they will appear in the vo- 
lume for 1809, which will be published 
previous to that eclipse. 
M. Delaplace has given in the Journal 
de Physique some memoirs, in which he 
shews that the adhesion of bodies, placed ~ 
upon the surface of a flurd, corresponds 
with the capillary attraction of which be 
has given the mathematical theory, and 
he points out the method of calculating 
this adhesion according to the experi- 
ments of Messrs, Haty and Achard. The 
principle of attraction between the mole- 
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