Part 58

See the Historical Researches regarding the Astronomical Observations of the ancients, by M. Ideler, a translation of which has been inserted by M. Halma in the third volume of his Ptolemy: and especially M. Freret’s memoir on the opinion of Lanauze, relative to the establishment of the Alexandrian year, in the memoirs of the Academy of Belles Lettres, vol. xvi. p. 308.

See the Memoir of Sir William Jones on the Antiquity of the Indian Zodiac. Calcutta Memoirs, vol. ii.

See the Zodiac explained, or Researches regarding the Origin and Signification of the Constellations of the Greek Sphere, translated from the Swedish of M. Swartz; Paris, 1809.

Saturnalia, lib. i. cap. xxi. sub. fin. Nec solus Leo, sed signa quoque universa zodiaci ad naturam solis jure referuntur, &c. It is only in the explanation of the Lion and Capricorn, that he has recourse to some phenomenon relative to the seasons; the Cancer itself is explained in a general point of view, and with reference to the obliquity of the sun’s march.

See the Memoir of M. Guignes on the Zodiacs of the Eastern Nations, in the Memoirs of the Academy of Belles Lettres, vol. xlvii.

See M. de Fortia d’Urban’s History of China before the Deluge of Ogyges, p. 33.

Copies have been printed separately, under the title of Description Geologique des Environs de Paris, par MM. G. Cuvier et Al. Brongniart. Second edition. Paris, 1822, 4to.

See Professor Buckland’s work, entitled Reliquiæ Diluvianæ. Lond. 1823, 4to, p. 185 et seq.; and the article Eau, by M. Brongniart, in the 14th volume of the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles.

A full view of the arrangement of rocks is given in note O.

See my “Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles,” t. v. part ii. p. 300.

Id. vol. v. part ii. p. 355 and 525.

See my “Recherches,” vol. v. part ii. p. 447.

Researches, &c. vol. v. part ii. p. 475, et seq.

Researches, vol. v. part ii. p. 485 and 486.

Researches, vol. v. part ii. p. 143.

Researches, vol. v. part ii. p. 127.

We expect a fuller knowledge of it from M. Conybeare’s researches.

Researches, vol. v. part ii. p. 343.

Ibid. p. 120.

Researches, vol. v. part ii. p. 358. et seq.

Ibid. p. 376.

Ibid. p. 380.

Researches, vol. v. part ii. p. 225.

Researches, vol. v. part ii. p. 161, 232, and 350.

Researches, vol. v. part iv. p. 310, et seq.

Ibid. p. 163.

Ibid. p. 316.

P. 317.