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a 3 sertkm , and wholly deny its- correctness . We make these remarks without any fear of an mvidfcms interpretation . Eichhorn ' work Is weli known in this country , and as universally prized for its extent of erudition , as reprobated for the license of the theological views which it implies .
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Accounts of Others and ha Place . ( From the same number and article . ) Dr . Cabers is well known as one of the most distinguished astronomers of the present day . He was born at Arbenren * in Germany , Oct . 11 , 1758 ,
and now resides in Bremen , where he has erected an observatory upon the top of his house . He is skilful as a physician , but retked from practice , except in cases of friendship or charity ; but particularly eminent as an astronomer and a mathematician . His
most important publication is the work here mentioned . ( A Treatise upon the most easy and convenient Method of computing' the Path of a Comet , from several Observations IVeimar , 17 ^ 7 ) To him we owe the discovery of the planets Pallas and Vesta . He also discovered a verv
singular comet , or collection of shining matter , without a nucleus , and so extremely rare , that it did not obscure the smallest fixed stars when passing eentrallv over them ; and , what is most
remarkable , tMs small speck of light is revolving somewhat like a primary planet about tlie sun in a period of 75 years . The excellent character and talents of Dc . Gibers make him an
object of the greatest respect and love . One of the mOst noted of the German astronomers ^ when giving an account Of this little comet , says , very happily , " Our Olbers , the fortunate Columbus of the planetary world , was the discoverer of this wonderful star . Science
and her votaries feel the most lively interest in this uncommon inan > who , in liis peaceful path marked with intellectual energy , has discovered to us three new worlds . In the strict sense ef the word , he may be called the feivourite of the heavens and of the
earth , useful to all ; in the day stretching fqrth hi * helping hand to relieve the distresses of suffering humanity , and in the darkness of the night pene-
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trating into the Farthest recesses of the starry firmament . " Peter Simon i > e la P : lace , Count of the French empire , was barn at Beaumont-en-Auge , March 24 , 1749
and is allowed by all to be the greatest mathematician now living . The volumes of the Academy of Arts and Sciences , and the National Institute of Paris , contain many of his memoirs , and he has published separately several
works , particularly his Exposition du Syzteme du Monde , and his Theorie Analytique des ProbubiUt&s y and , above all others , his Traiti de Mtcanique Ctleste , which is a complete system ,
explaining fully the effects of gravity upon the figures and motions of the heavenly bodies . Of the many discoveries he has made , we shall mention a few of the nfbst remarkable , for the
sake of readers not conversant with his works . 1 . The theory of the motions of Jupiter and Saturn , in which he discovered a very great equation , whose period is 917 years . ' This has enabled astronomers to account for several
inequalities which had for many years been observed in the motions of those planets . 2 . The very remarkable equations which regulate the mean motions and the mean longitudes of the three inner satellites of Jupiter , called with great propriety , by Biot , La Place ' s laws . 3 . The cause of the acceleration of the moon ' s motion . 4 . An accurate determination of the sun ' s parallax by means of a small inequality in the moon ' s motion . 5 . The quantity by which the earth is flattened at the
poles , discovered by nfeans of two small inequalities in the moon ' s motions - 6 . The laws of capillary attraction . 7- Complete formulas and calculations of the perturbations of the motions of the planets . These discoveries , together with a multitude of improvements in analysis and in every branch of mathematical knowledge , place thi 3 immortal man far above any of his contemporaries in the walks of science .
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Eulogy on Newton . ( From review of " Bailly ' H istory of Astronomy , " in the Number for Ja nuary 1821 U is worthy of remark , that though the Englfeh natioa is » o justly proud
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450 ** Selections from ' * The North American Beview" .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1821, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2503/page/10/
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