ช. [2] BOOKS printed for W. IN NY S. 1. A Chronological Effay on the Ninth Chapter of the Book of Daniel; or, An Interpretation of the Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks; whereby the Jews, in and for above Four Hundred and fixty Years before our Saviour's Time, might certainly know the very Year in which the Meffias was to come. By Peter Laneafter, Vicar of Bowden in Cheshire, and fometime Student of Chrift-Church in Oxford. 4to. 2. Some Remarks on the late Bishop Lloyd's Hypothefis of Daniel's Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks. In a Letter to the Reverend Mr. Marshall, Rector of Naunton in Gloucestershire. By P. Lancaster, M. A. 4to. 3. The genuine Works of St. Cyprian, Archbishop of Carthage, and Primate of all Africa; who fuffer'd Martyrdom for the Chriftian Faith in the Year of our Lord 258, Together with his Life, written by his own Deacon Pontius. All done into English, from the Oxford Edition, and illuftrated with divers Notes. To which is added, A Differtation upon the Cafe of Heretical and Schifmatical Baptifms, at the Clofe of the famous Council of Carthage, held in the Year of our Lord 256; whofe Acts are alfo herewith published. By Nathaniel Marshall, D. D. Rector of the United Parishes of St. Vedaft (alias Fofters) and St. Michael Le Quern, London ; and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majefty. Folio. 4. Primitive Morality: Or, The Spiritual Homilies of St. Macarius the Egyptian, full of very profitable Inftructions concerning that Perfection which is expected from Chriftians, and which it is their Duty to endeavour after. Tranflated out of Greek into English; with feveral confiderable Emendations, and fome Enlargements from a Bodleian Manufcript, never before printed. By a Presbyter of the Church of England. 8vo, 1721. 5. A Difcourfe of the Truth and Certainty of Natural Religion, and the indifpenfible Obligations to Publick Worship, from Nature and Reafon. By David Martin, late Paftor of the French Church at Utrecht. Tranflated from the Frenck. The Second Edition, 8vo. 6. The great Pafchal Cycle of Five Hundred Thirty two Years; with other Tables ufed in the Church of England. Svo. [3] N Account of Mr. FLAMSTED's Atlas II. Hiftoria Cæleftis Britannica, tribus volumi- III. Miscellaneous Reflections and Obferva- tions arifing from the two preceding Ar- ticles, relating to the great Ufe, Pleafure, Advantages, and Hiftory of Aftronomy; the feveral great Improvements lately made therein; the Perfection of this Science ; and how much of all this is owing to the great and indefatigable Labours of Mr. FLAMSTE D. V. Homeri Ilias, Grece & Latine. Annotatio- nes in Ufum Sereniffimi Principis Gulielmi Augufti, Ducis de Cumberland, &c. Regio 53 VI. A Letter to a Bencher, from a Student of the Temple, Pag. 66 VII. State of Learning; why this Article now omitted, 76 VIII. An Account of a new Book of Mr. St. Hyacinth, ibid. ERRAT A. PAGE 2. in the Motto, line 1. after primum read dulces; l. 2. feror r. fero; p. 3. in the margin, 1. 2. ftellis r. ftellas; p. 14. l. 15. twelve r. eleven; p. 30. 1. 7. Sciences r. Science. A too remarkable Error escap'd us in the last Month of December, to be here omitted, viz. page 445. line 9. inftead of Harloquin r. Lelio, which is the Character of a fine Gentleman. THE THE PRESENT STATE OF THE Republick of Letters. For JANUARY 1729. ARTICLE I ATLAS COELESTIS, in Twenty five Charts: Containing all the Conftellations visible in our Hemifphere. Each Chart being twenty five Inches in Length, and twenty in Breadth, and constructed after a new Method; wherein the ancient Figures are reftored, and the Stars laid down from his own correct Catalogue. Together with two large Planifpheres of the Northern and Southern Conftellations. By the late Reverend Mr. FLAMSTED, Aftr. Prof. Reg. JANUARY 1729. A Me Me vero primum ante omnia Mufæ, VIRG. HIS Work contains the last Remains and T concluding Labours of the late reverend and learned Mr. Flamfted's Life; and, together with his Hiftoria Cæleftis Britannica, (lately published in three Volumes in Folio) gives us an incomparably more perfect and magnificent Uranography than any that has yet appear'd in the world fince the time Men firft began to apply themselves to the making celeftial Obfervations far exceeding any of the Ancients, that of all the Arabian Princes, the noble Tycho Brahe's, and the induftrious Hevelius, or whoever elfe have yet attempted the fidereal Science. Amongst fo many great and extraordinary helps and advantages for the Science of Aftronomy, and the fuller and more perfect knowledge of the Stars, as have appear'd fince the laft reftoration of Learning, and especially fince the late great improvements and wonderful difcoveries that have been made therein, in this and the laft Century, there was ftill wanting a truer Projection of the Conftellations, and a reftoration of their ancient Figures; (The great and deep ignorance in which of all our modern Authors had almost as much perplex'd and confounded us in the true knowledge and place of the Stars, as the abfurd fictions and hypotheses of Epicycles and Excentricks of Ptolemy and his Followers, and their whims of folid Orbs, had formerly difturb'd and confounded the true Theories of the Celestial Motions; ) together with a redu ction |