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1805,] 
M. pE KNOBELSDORF, ambaflador 
from the King of Pruffia to the Ottoman 
Porte, has prefented to the Royal Aca. 
demy of Berlin twelve volumes of Perfian ' 
manufcripts, which he collected in the 
Fatt... Among thefe are the Hifory of 
the Eat, by Mirkond, in feven volumes 5’ 
b) 
a Hiftory of the Family of Sefito Shah 
Abbas; and a Hiftory of Shab Nadir. 
‘ Gorw#e has announced a'work, entitled 
sé Winkelmann and the Arts in the 
Eighteenth Century,’ the publication of 
which is oo expected by all the ama- 
teurs of the arts. 
The Imperial Academy of Sciences uf 
Peterfburg propofes, for the competition 
of the year 1806, a prize of goo rubles” 
for the memoir which fhall prefent the 
mot infructive feries of new experiments 
on light confidered as matter; onthe pro. 
pertics that oup ht to he attributed to its 
6n the affinities which 4t appears to hive 
with other bodies, whether organized or 
not; and on the moilifications and pheno- 
mena which appear in thofe fubftances, 
in confequence of the combinations which 
the light forms with them. ‘‘ The compe- 
tition is open to individuals of ery pa- 
fion, aud memoirs will be received till 
May 1, 1806. 
The Batavian Society for General Uti- 
lity has propofed the following fubjects 
for prizes: a plain defeription of the ules 
which man actually makeg of the different 
productions of the three kingdoms of na- 
ture, and of thofe to which they might be 
applied ; and a natural hiftory, for the ule 
of the lower claffes of the people, to con- 
tribute to eradicate fuperftition and preju- 
dices. ‘3 
The celebrated PestTaLozzi, who has 
refisned toa friend the {uperintendance 
of his inftitution at Buchiee, has received 
an invitation to go to Livonia, where he 
is earneftly defred to found a fi nilar eftab- 
lifhment. He has pre, ofed conditions 
which are very reafonible, and which, 
it is expected, will be accepied 
The Toquilit ion of Spain, in its edict 
for the year 1804, publifhed a lift of bocks 
forbidden in that kingdom, eitoer entirely 
Of in part. ~The number of articles 
amounts to 102; and among them are 
Locke's Effay on the Human Underftand- 
ing, which is condemned becaule the doc- 
trines contained in it are defirutive of 
true ideas of good and moral evil; and 
Pope’s works, which are branded as ob- 
fcene, erroneous, heretical, and blafphe- 
mous. againtt the Pope. 
A fociety has been formed at Florence, , 
the object of whofe Jabours is the hiftory 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. ~ 375 
of its country. Tt has already publithed 
a fmall volume, containing an Efiay on 
the origin and’civilization of the firft in- 
habitadrs-of Italy, and a Treatife on the 
moft certain epochs in: the hiftory of Flo- 
rence till the year 1292. In the fucceed-’ 
ing volumes will be given lives of cele- 
brated natives of Tufcany recently deceafed. 
-ADAM FaBRONI, Keeper of the royal 
gallery at Florence, is engaged in a con- 
tiruation of the Mufeum Florentinum,. 
He is known as an antiquary by feveral 
differtations, particularly thofe on the 
Byflus of the ancients, on an antique 
Venus, and a fatue im the Mafeum of the 
Capitol. He is likewile the author of fe- 
vers} works on rural economy: | 
talian tranflations of all the be& Ger- - 
man profe writers are im preparation at 
Blorence. This collection is printed at 
Forlt, and has been commenced ‘with 
Zimmermann’s, two works on Solitude 
and National Pride. 
A. complete edition of the works of the 
celebrated Hurper is expe&ed thortly to 
appear. ‘The fuperintendance of the pub- 
lication has been undertaken by tome. of 
the moft diftinguithed literary characters. 
of Germany, All that relates to. the 
helles-leitres is confided to the care. of. 
Wieland, and the archeological papers 
to Heyne; Muller, the hi iftovian of Swit- 
zetland, fuperintends the. hiftorical part, 
and the theological works will be edited, 
by J.G. Muller. In this edition all that 
relates to literary difputes now forgotten, 
wil be fuporeffed. A felection from the 
author’s letters, and a hikory of his life, 
wilt be annexed. Among, the unpublith- 
ed works, which will enhance the value. 
of this edition, are an Effay on the Cid ; 
a learned ‘ Differtation on Perfepolis ; an 
almo't completetranflation of the Odes of 
Horace and the Satires of Perfius ; various 
picces from Pindar, and the Latin, Greek, 
and Oriental poets; fome fermons, and a 
colleciion of Thoughts. The whole will 
compcle about fifty volumes. 
De Lauanpe has prefented his Coz- 
noiffance du Tems de l An 15, to Bona- 
parte: it will be publifhed by the Bureau 
of Longitude. This work contains a va- 
luabie collection of Memoirs, Obfervations 
and Tables, by Melfirs. Laplace, Delambre, 
Vidal, Burckhardt, &c. &c.3 the life of 
the aftronomer Bernier ; ; and the hiftory of 
altronomy for 1804, by De Lalande; to 
ferve as a continuation to his Bibliogra- 
phie Afironomique. ; 
GESNER, the celebrated German pal- 
toral poet, has left in the poffeffion of his 
family a coll:étion of landicapes, and 
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