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THROUGH SWEDEN. 127
nius or invention, but well acquainted with chemiftry and mine-
ralogy. He is bergrat, or counfellor of the college of miners.
Mr. Nicander, compiler of the Swedifh almanacks.
Mr. Landerbeck, author, as I believe, of a paper publifhed in
the tranfactions of the royal fociety of London, «« De Methodo
« inveniendi Curvas ex datis radiorum Ofculi proprietatibus.”’
ber by Ferner, he was re-
When he was firft propofed as.a mem x
jected ; but on his producing a letter of recommendation from
England, as is faid, he was admitted. | all
Mr. Nordmark, formerly profeflor of mit genatics at Grieffe
walde; now profeffor of natural philofophy at Upfala. He is the
author of feveral memoirs publifhed among tHe acts of the aca-
demy, and of one publifhed lately under the title “of « ~Lacune in
“ doctrina proportionum Euclidea_ animadverfe, ¢
which he undertakes to obviate the objections of
Simfon, profeflor in the univerfity of Glafgow, to fifth and
feventh definitions in the fifth book of Euclid ;* and ich he
has clearly fhewn that Euclid’s method of treating proportions is
ftrictly mathematical. He is one of the moft learned and en-
lightened men in the univerfity of Upfala: he is not only ac-
quainted with the modern languages, and with Greek and Latin,
but is alfo a great proficient in Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac.
Mr. Lidtgren, aftronomical obferver at Lund.
Mr. Schulten, profeffor in the military fchool at Carlberg:
ne has made hydrographical charts of the gulph of Boehuia ; and
* See Simfon’s Elements of Euclid.
publifhed,.
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