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New Publications*eftof . le-ianm,-ledt is :ch re-we ro-Hero er, ,vasiterca-11 u* liti, the the ut; lingthe am : as and iningtivi-ons, his \t if idia,and d to ring lxth that with (hip iioutmay y betdas.fay, that I have already tranflated four or five other hooks, and among them the “Hi-topadcfa,” which 1 undertook merely as an exercife in learning Sanfcrit, three yean before I knew that Mr. Wilkins, without whole aid I fhould never have foamed it, had any thought of giving the fame work to the publick*” „The work claims an antiquity prior to the Chrifiian arra by a century, when a learned prince filled the throne of India, and nine men of genius graced his court; a circumftance much refem-bling the feven pleiades at the court of Egypt. The editor well obferves that it would require a large volume to explain the Indian fyftem of mythology. We agree with him that we are too old to unlearn Forney’s Pantheon, and enter on the wide field he points out as neceflary to underftand the Indian drama, which, nobody can deny, contains fine paflages. . .The uanflation is beautifully printed by Mr. Cooper, with the new-invented ink of his own manufaure.228. Pbilof'fhical Tranfaftio/ts of tie RoyalSociety of London. Vol. LXXX. For theYear 1790- Part I. 4to. *ART 1C LE 1. Account of the Difcovery of a Stx?h and Seventh'Satellite of the Planet Saturn; nvitb Rernarh on tbi ConftrnOion of its Ring, its AtmoJpbtre, its Rotation on an Ax‘is9 and ii% jpheroidt-calFigure. By W. Herfchet, LL.D.F+R.S•A R r. 11. Afironomical Qbfir vat ions on the Planets Venus and Mars, made nvitb a Vienv to determine the heliocentric Longitude of their Nodes, the annual Mot/on of the AW/j, and the grealeji Inclination of their Orbits. I?jThomasBugge,F./i 6*.. Regius Proftjfor of AJironomy at Copenhagen, Mtmher of the Academies of Stockholm, Copenhagen. Manheim* and Dronclicim, andOorrrfpcmdtnt oj the Academy of Sciences at Pans.
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Gentlemans Magazine and Historical Chronicle
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Nov 01, 1790
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