munis Saadiæ, et Arabs Hebræo-mauritanus ab Erpenio editus. Targum Onkelofi impreffum, et Perfica Tauvofi Tranflatio conjunctionem non exprimunt, unde ex fola interpretum licentia legitur in latina eorum verfione, quæ extat in Bibliis Polyglottis. Cum nexu legitur etiam infra hoc verbum verfu 12. Conferatur Houbigantius in hunc locum, qui variam hanc lectionem probat, et ex auctoritate verfionum antiquarum hodiernæ anteponit.

The Abbè Calufius has lately published Rudimentum literature Copta, very fuperbly printed at

Parma.

Michaelis has lately published a differtation, to fhow that fomething anfwering to conductors, on the temple of Jerufalem, is the reason why we have no accounts of its having been ftruck by lightening.

In another differtation, he attempts to fhow, that the fire which ftruck one of the Herods, on attempting to open the grave of David, was a natural fire.He likewife enters into fome difcuffions, relating to the fire which prevented Julian from going on.

Profeffor Schnurrer of Tubinger, has publifhed, at different times, fome very much efteemed differtations on various parts of oriental literature; one is on the fong of Deborah, two on paffages in Job, and one on the Proverbs, two on the Pfalms in general, one on the 10th Pfalm, one on the difficulty of determining the ages of the Hebrew MSS. of the Old Teftament, and one on the Arabic Pentateuch in Walton's Polyglot, to know whether it is the fame as that of Saadias the Jew, which he thinks it is.

A friend of Mr. D'Alembert's, who defires to be unknown, has given the French academy twenty-five guineas, for the beft profe panegyric that fhall be written on him.

L'Abbe de Lille (the celebrated author of the Jardius) fee review for June 1782, lately read to the French academy, the first canto of a poem on imagi

nation.

nation. In this poem, he defcribes the most famous Greek and Roman epic poets, together with their fineft monuments of art, and concludes with a fine compliment to Mr. Choifeuil Gouffier.

The Abbè Ximenes, mathematician to the grand duke of Tuscany, has published a letter to the fenator Genori, in twenty-three pages 8vo. He makes no doubt of the aeroftatical machine becoming extremely ufeful to navigation, military architecture, trade, &c. but recommends the team of boiling water in preference to inflammable air.

Addenda to the article of Erafmus's letters, in the last Review.

It seems, that the letters which came from London were tranfmitted to Mr. Burscher by Mr. Burkhadt, minifter of the Lutheran church in the Savoy. Mr. Burkhadt received them as a prefent from the widow of a man of confequence. Mr. Burfcher gives the fubject, and mentions the beginning of each. Amongst the writers we find Pope Paul the Third, Nicolas Olaus, Cuthbert, bishop of London, Thomas More, John de Hondt, Maldonat, and Rabelais; the others, which are out of Erafmus's own library, are from Urban the Fourth, Adrian the Sixth, Luther, Melancthon, and George duke of Saxony.

Dr. Ingenhouze purposes publishing two volumes of new differtations, in the courfe of the fummer.

In the course of this month, Mr. Jacquin, profeffor of botany and chemistry at Vienna, will publish his elements of chemiftry in one volume 8vo. It is faid that this work, though compendious, will contain the best new chemical opinions.

Recherches fur l'Influence de la Lumiere Solaire pour Metamorphofer l'air fixe en air pur par la Vegetation, par Mr. Sennebier, 383 p. 8vo.

This is a fequel to the work, of which an extract was given in the Review for January.-It will be

taken

taken up again. After repeated tryals, Mr. S. finds that the Eudiometer never anfwers till three months after it has been questioned, and then that the answer given is directly oppofite to that which has been commonly fuppofed.

Mr. Mesmer, who fome time ago pretended to cure all diforders by Magnetifm, has, as I am informed from Paris, got a hundred fcholars, or a hundred initiés, (initiates) as he calls them, at 100 guineas each, to whom he is to reveal his ftupendous fecrets.

The balloon contrived by Mr. Morveau, the celebrated chymift, fecretary to the academy of Dijon, will be raised next month. M. M. makes use of the gas of Potatoes, which, according to experiment, is to the inflammable gas from metals as fix to seven.

The balloon rage has fpread all over Italy. The famous Landriani of Milan attempted one, but was not able to raise it.

Mr. Warwille's publication for this month, entitled Tableau de L'Etat prefent des Sciences et des Arts en Angleterre, contains a very fenfible review of the celebrated,inflammatory, inflaming and inflamedpamphlet,* called an Authentic Narrative of the Diffentions and Debates in the Royal Society. Befides the spirit and humour which Mr. W. has thrown into his account, hẹ fuggefts several confiderations, which are the more worthy of attention, as Mr. W. undoubtedly fpeaks the sense of every foreigner on the subject.

Lettres Edifiantes et Curieufes, ècrites des Miffions ètrangeres. Nouvelle Edition. Memoires des Indes et de la Chine. Tome 15 and 16, 12m0. Some interesting papers, which have been discovered

* This alludes to fome honours which this pamplet received by great command, though in a very small circle, honours of a nature not unfimilar to thofe formerly bestowed upon the North Briton, in a large circle, and by still greater command.

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by the editor, fince the publication of the laft edition of this work, form this fupplement. The moft remarkable parts of it are a memoir by father Gaubil, on the history of the ancient aftronomy of the Chinese, and a panegyric by Mr. de Lalande on his countryman Father Piquet an undaunted foldier as well as miffionary, and who, as Mr. du Quefne used to fay, was of as much service as ten regiments.

Neue Nordische Beytrage. Part the Third.

This is a kind of journal, compiled by the famous Mr. Pallas of Peterfburg, containing felect pieces, relating to the geography, population, natural history, and œconomy of the earth. The most remarkable pieces contained in the prefent volume, are a curious history of the several countries about Mount Caucafus, inhabited by the Georgians; and the defcription of the ceremonies used at the burning of a dead Lama.. There are alfo travels from Kiow to Conftantinople; the account of a feven years refidence in Siberia; an account of the fect of the Indians fettled at Aftrachan; and more than one paper on the vicinity of Ruffia to America.

ELECTRICITY.

De l'electricité des vegetaux. Ouvrage dans lequel on traite de l'electricité de l'atmosphere fur les plantes, de fes effets fur l'economie des vègètaux de leurs vertus medico et nutritivo electriques et principalement des moyns de pratique de l'appliquer utilement a l'Agriculture, avec l'invention d'un electro-vegetometre, par L'Abbè Bartholon. 463 pages.

8vo.

The fuccefs which this writer's treatise on the electricity of the human body, both in the state of ficknefs and that of health, met with, has induced him to publish the above work, which is foon to be followed by one on the electricity of minerals. In the

present

prefent work, the writer gives feveral instances of the effects of electricity upon the quick growth of plants; and defcribes an electro-vegetometer, by means of which, he can reftore the equilibrium of the electric matter, when it is either pofitive or negative. The book contains feveral curious inftances of a greater vegetation, after electrical storms, than at other times. Mr. B. likewife gives us the lift of fuch plants, and fuch parts of plants, as are the best conductors of electricity. He alfo electrified feeds, and found them grow quicker than those which had not been electrified. The smells, taftes, and colours of plants, are likewise improved by electricity. Finally, the author fets himself to the examination of the diforders of plants, and the damages infects do them, and the application of his principles to these objects, make his book a very good treatife of ruftic œconomy.

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

Ephemerides Societatis Meteorologica Palatinæ, Hiftoria et Obfervationes, Anni 1781. Accedit defcriptio Inftrumentorum Meteorologicorum tum eorum, quæ Societas per Europam diftribuit, quam quibus præter hæc Manhemii utitur cum figuris ære excufis Manheim. 4to. p. 448.

The meteorological fociety of Manheim, founded by Charles Theodore, elector Palatine, has sent meteorological inftruments into every country, where it could hope to gain information. This is a very accurate account of the information which it has accordingly received. The volume contains the history of the academy, the description of the inftruments, and the feveral obfervations made at Manheim, Buda, Berlin, Erfuch, Ingoldstadt, Munich, Padua, Prague, and Ratisbon, etc.

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