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The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six.

  • Six, James, 1731-1793.
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The construction and use of a thermometer for showing the extremes of temperature in the atmosphere, during the observer's absence. Together with experiments on the variations of local heat and other meteorological observations / By James Six. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gazine for January, 1787, which notices in re{pectful terms. both thefe truly excellent characters, * Anime, quales neque candidiores Terra tulit, neque queis me fit devinétior alter.” Should the following fheets prove an ac- ceptable prefent to the public, it will par- don the prefumption of the Editor in laying before it thefe fhort and imperfeét memo- priated to the burial of Proteflants, and the funeral fervice was reac over him by the Rev. Mr. Walefby, chaplain to his Royal Highnefs Cecil Bifhop, Sir Thomas Stapleton, Mr. Long, and moft of the Englhifh gentlemen then refident at Rome. He was the fon of Mr. JAmEs Six, of Canterbury, to whofe ingenious obfervations and experiments in natural philofophy, &c. the public have been much indebted.” [Gentleman's Mag. for January, 1787.]} As atafle for German hterature feems to b¢ acvancing in this country, it may not be improper to add to this account, that, a Short time before his death, he completed a, tranflation of the Oberon of Mr- WIELAND, a poetical romance, in 14 Books. But fome doubts of the reception which the tranflation of a German poem might meet with in England, which were increaled by the opinion of Mr. WieLanp himfelf (who neverthelefs. expreffed in handfome terms his approbation of fome parts of it which he had feen) as they uafiyed his refolution to print it, have likewife fince his death pre- vented its publication.