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11. Method of calculating the echpses 
of the sun, and the occultations of the 
atars, by Schmidt ; 
12. On the new observations and cal- 
culations of M, Piazzi; 
13 and 14. The two supplements to 
the catalogue of the stars of M. Piazzi, 
by Oltmauns ; 
15. Of the latitude of Quito, by the 
same; 
16. Astronomical observations made 
at Paris, by M. Bouvard; 
17 and 18. Two memoirs composed 
at Paris, by M. Van Beek Calkoen, on 
the apparent medium distance of 38 
pair of stars; 
19, Geographical positions determined 
on the coast of Italy, &c, &c. 
“ Bulletin des Neusten, &c.” Bulletin 
of New Inventions, interesting to Arts, 
Manufactures, Trades, Rural and Do- 
mestic Economy, &c. 2 vols.8vo. Berlin. 
We are here presented with a variety of 
discoveries, in consequence of the con- 
version of objects of natural history to the 
advancement of trade and manufactures. 
First, we are told in what manner the 
rose of Damascus may be employed 
advantageously, for the advancement of 
the arts; next we have a receipt for 
preparing Spanish rouge; then an ac- 
count of a new green and a new blue. 
After this, we are presented with a dis- 
sertation on chilling of liquors by means 
of metal vessels; a subsitute for lime 
juice follows; remarks on the vegetable 
compass ; on the specific gravity of con- 
crete. mercury; 0n convex glasses; on 
the manufacture of paper; on the means 
of discovering the falsification of white 
paint; a new drawing-ink ; new colours 
for cotton stuffs; the bark of the hiera~ 
cium pilosella, proposed as a_ substitute 
for the quinquina, or jesuit’s bark; an 
essay on perfecting electrical conduc- 
tors; a new orange-coloured gunpowder 
for artillery; an account of certain Ger- 
mans who eat argillaceous earth. 
“ Geschicte der Puierschen, &c.” His- 
tory of the Nineteenth Century, parti- 
cularly destined for a Narration of the 
Austrian Annals, 4 vols. with portraits. 
Vienna, 1808. M. Schwaidopler, the 
author of these volumes, confines himself 
almost entirely to an enumeration of 
those events, in which the house of: 
Austria has been cliefly interested. All 
the portraits too, with the exception 
of that of Mr. Pitt, and Bonaparte, are 
confined to the court of Vienna, the 
Montuiy Mac, No. 201, 
likenesses being those of the archdukes 
Charles and John, Maria Theresa, the 
emperor Francis I., field-marshal Kray, 
&c. Among those of inferior consi- 
derations we find the baron Van Swie- 
ten, and Fuger the painter. 
“ Riuckerinnerungen an Grosse Man- 
ner, &c.” Reminiscences of Great Men, 
1 vol. 8vo, Amsterdam, 1809. M. de Mas- 
senbach, the author of this work, has’ 
here given the public: 
1. An eulogium on prince Henry of 
Prussia; 
2. A parallel between prince Henry 
and Frederic II.; . 
3. A memoir relative to the admini- 
stration of the latter ; 
4, A dissertation on the situation of 
Prussia and of Europe, after the demise 
of Frederic the Great; 
And 5. The reasons for the author’s 
entering into the service of the court of 
Berlin. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“ Traité Elementaire de Physique.” 
An Elementary Treatise on Natural 
Philosophy, by the Abbé Hatiy, hono- © 
rary canon. of the metropolitan church 
of Paris, member of the legion of ho- 
nour, &c. second edition, revised, and 
considerably augmented by the author, 
2 vols. 8vo. printed at Paris, 1809. 
The different points of view under 
which natural bodies and the phenomena 
presented by then, may happen to be 
considered, have given birth to a variety 
of studies and pursuits. These have 
been multiplied, we are told, in propor- 
tion as the progress ef knowledge con- 
tributes to add new branches to the sci- 
ences already fermed. The sum total 
of our acquisitions, resulting from these, 
has accordingly furnished the three 
erand divisions, to which have been 
given the names of natural philosophy, 
chemistry, and natural history. 
To a knowledge of the properties of 
‘bodies, their changes, and the laws by 
which they are regulated, the Abbé 
allixes the appellation of Physique, or 
natural philosophy. But when the phe- 
nomena depend on the action exercised 
by the molecu/e of bodies on each other, 
aswell as on their separation and union, 
this study properly appertains to chemis+ 
try. On the other hand, when the atten- 
tion is turned towards particular beings, 
some of which enjay hte, and spontane- 
ous motion, while ‘others possess only 
@ structure without organiation, this 
4 & eubraces. 
