278 
Commentary of Proclus has been printed 
enly once in the Oren language, at the 
end of Euclid’s Elements, in the ae 
edition of Simon Gryne zeus, Basil, 15353. 
‘The defective state of the text Bances 
Francis Baroccius, @ patrician of Venice, 
to correct it, and to fill up the chasms 
from manuscripts discovered at Boloena, 
and in the island of Crete. He then 
produced a Latin Translation of it, which 
was published im folio at Venice, in 
4560. This was translated into the Eng- 
lish language by Mr. T. Taylor, and pub- 
lished in 1788. The Corrections and 
Additions of M, Aurivilius are from a 
Greck copy of the Basil edition, made 
by Conrad Dasypodius, of Strasburgh. 
DENMARK, 
The following is an Account of the 
number of Births and Deatlis in this 
Kingdom for the year 1806. 
Births. Deaths. 
Wenmark '\5" 0's * 5” 295949 29 588 
Nerway oa Se. 8 BO, 777 18,482 
Schleswig and Holstein 16,421 12,754 
Altona. : 793 823 
Lordship of Pinneberg 901 69-4 
County of Rantzau . . 418 354 
75,259 55,695 
The Births exceed the Deaths by 
19,564. Greenland and Iceland are not 
imcluded in the above Account. 
In a coilection of the lives of celebrated 
Danes recently published, we find some 
curious par dhealats relative to M. Phng- 
sten, who had the direction of the Insti- 
tution for the Deaf and Dumb, esta- 
blished at Kiel. This truly extraordi- 
nary man was born at Kiel, in 1746. 
In his youth he gave lessons in reading, 
dancing, and music, and invented a 
new method af playing , if it may be so 
expressed, upon the drum. He executed 
eoncertos on that instrument, and some 
years ago, gave one for the benefit of 
the poor. He was led to the idea of 
employing the sounds of the drum, or 
any other articulate sounds in the torma- 
tion of a language. This idea suggested 
that Gf another language of signs tor the 
eve, anda third for the touch. Of these 
he exlubitcd public experiments, in 1786, 
at Hamburgh, Copenhagen, and other 
places, Sentences were written down 
for him, these he dictated by beat of 
drum to:his son eleven years of age, 
who, in his turn committed them to 
paper, with all the orthographical errors 
that were madein them; M. Pfingsten 
did the saine with striking a table with 
ihe. end of a kow belonging to a violin, 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
fOct. 1, 
He likewise made experiments with bis 
telegraphic language, by the motion of ~ 
the arms, by flags, and at night by torches ; 
Jastly, he discovered a method. of ¢om- 
municating his ideas to another in the_ 
dark, by the touch, and, the motion of 
the fingers. Tle has since availed him- 
self of these discoveries in the instruction 
of persons born deaf and blind; and has_ 
been the moresuccessful with thie former, 
as he had in his childhood two com- 
panions that were deaf and dumb, and 
then formed a language by signs for the 
purpose ar conversing with them. 
AUSTRIA. 
The church-yard of the Augustines, at 
Vienna, which contains the celebrated 
mausoleum, executed by Canova, for 
the Archduchess Christina, is to be de- 
corated with a bronze statue, which the 
emperor is going to erect to the memory 
of his uncle, Joseph If. The execution 
of it, was committed to M. Zauner,: 
who has acquitted himself with great: 
success. The statue is the largest of 
the kind in Europe. 
The Josephine Academy of Surgery, 
at one of its late meetings, was principally 
engaved in a careful examination of the: 
conductor of hght, ivented by Dr. 
Bozzini, of Frankfort on the Mayn,’ 
and which is intended to illumine the 
internal parts and cavities of the body. 
The experiments, which were made on’ 
corpses, were .attended with results 
Lighly honorable and satisfactory to the 
inventor, and fully demonstrated "the 
utility of this ingenious cuntrivance. It 
is more than doubtful, however, that the 
application of this conductor of light to’ 
iiving persons, will be attended with 
very great difficulties. ; 
) GERMANY. 
There has been published at Halle a 
work entitled Letters on the interior re- 
lations of the Court of Prussia, since the 
time of Frederic II. These Letters have 
excited the public curiosity to a high de- 
Sree, and are said to be very interesting, 
The Catalogue of Books at the last 
Leipzig Fair amounted only to 1,562 ar- 
ticles, including the Latin works. There 
were many continuations and new edi- 
tious of former works in the classes of 
voyages and travels, biography, &c. 
Those that appear to have suffered the 
least diminution are novels and dramatic 
productions.. The number of-novels is 
cighty-eight, and of theatrical works 
thirty-eight. To what a low degree of 
imporfance this fair is. reduced, 15 proved 
frem the circumstance of only one book~ 
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