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Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 12, Section: Foreign Notices
Heading: Indigent Population of France, Para 2
Category: Geography France Public Administration
Topic: [Statistics on begging and poverty in France. Crime. Institutions (hospitals and prisons)]
Signed: LAFOREST, M.
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 12, Section: Foreign Notices
Heading: Tea Trade in Russia, Para 3
Category: Geography Russian Empire China
Topic: [The tea route from China. Methods of packing. Prices. The merchants of Moscow who deal in particular teas]
Source: Bulletin du Nord
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 12, Section: Foreign Notices
Heading: The Nuraghes of Sardinia, Para 1
Category: Geography Sardinia
Topic: [Ancient monuments of Sardinia. Demographic statistics. Economy. Trade. Education.]
Signed: MARMORA, A. de la
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 13, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Poetical, Para 1
Category: Anthropology Medicine Brain Phrenology Craniology Mathematics Literature
Topic: Sir Walter Scott and Dr. Gall, the Phrenologist. [The Athenaeum exposes Dr. Gall`s mistaken apprehensions about certain anonymous busts]
Person: GALL CHANTREY TROUGHTON SCOTT, Sir Walter POMFRET, Earl of
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Alchemical, Para 16
Category: Philosophy Alchemy Comparative Mythology
Topic: The Cup of Immortality. [Chinese story about a drink giving immortality likened to the preoccupations of the alchemists]
Source: De Guignes: Voyage a Peking
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Alchemical, Para 16
Category: Philosophy The Occult Alchemy
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Astrological, Para 15
Category: Philosophy Astrology Medicine
Topic: Medical Astrology. Maginus says [...] that a physician has no use for astrology
Source: Maginus: Mathematical Physic Kurt. Sprengel Hist. Med.
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Biographical, Para 4
Category: Physics Science Professional Ethics Literature Biography
Topic: Newton and Stillingfleet. [Whiston, who wrote the "Theory of the Earth" reports that he angered Newton by contradicting him, and was publicly silenced out of fear of angering Newton further, and even of killing him. There are other examples of professional rifts, such as that of Stillingfleet and Locke]
Person: WHISTON NEWTON, Sir Isaac STILLINGFLEET BENTLEY, Dr. LOCKE
Source: Whiston: Theory of the Earth
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Mythological, Para 11
Category: Classical Mythology
Topic: Origin of the Demi-Gods of Antiquity. [Not all the gods were once human]
Person: WARBURTON BOTT
Source: Bott`s Answer to Warburton, 23
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Oneirological, Para 14
Category: Psychology Philosophy Dreams
Topic: Pleasures of Dreaming. [If we dreamed the same thing every night, dreaming would seem to have more substance and power to affect our moods]
Source: Pascal: Pensees
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Picturesque, Para 8
Category: Geography Alps Literature
Topic: Alpine Scenery. [An attempt to] paint to the imagination objects which have nothing in common with what is seen in other parts of the world
Source: Saussure: Voyages dans les Alpes
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Romantic, Para 7
Category: Geography British Isles Scotland The Highlands
Topic: Heath-beds. [Buchanan and Smollett have romanticized "heath-beds". In reality they are uncomfortable]
Person: BUCHANAN SMOLLETT
Source: Cordiner`s Picturesque Antiquities p. 114
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Sepulchral, Para 12
Category: Social Anthropology Burial
Topic: Hottentot Buryings in 1686
Source: Cowley`s Voyage apud Harris, i.82
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Superstitious
Heading: Sacredness of Islands, Para 13
Category: Geography Islands Religion Social Anthropology
Topic: [The religious veneration of the ancient Irish for the island of Inniscailtre is compared with the religious status accorded the "oriental" islands of Elephanta, Salsette, Ceylon]
Source: Owenson`s Patriot Sketches, i. 48
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 15, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Grammatical, Para 7
Category: Philology
Topic: Prepositional Cases. [Alteration in language through nations intermingling and mixing]
Source: Smith: Formation of Language
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 15, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Metaphysical, Para 8
Category: Philosophy Metaphysics
Topic: Beauty. [What we find beautiful must always reflect a part of our own nature and please us. What departs from it is proportionally displeasing]
Source: Pascal: Pensees
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 15, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Topographical, Para 5
Category: Geography Greece Ecology Deforestation
Topic: Locality of Troy. [It is impossible to find the River Scamander, which was near ancient Troy, because the forests of Mount Ida are gone and with them, the springs and streams]
Person: ROZIER, Abbe
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 9-10
Heading: Notes on Lisbon. No. IV.
Category: Geography Portugal Public Health Penal Offences
Topic: Executions. Public Preachers. Streets and Houses
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Reviews
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 8
Heading: Catalogue Raisonne of Recent Publications
Category: Geography Australia Tasmania
Title: Present State of Van Diemen`s Land; comprising an Account of its Agricultural Capabilities, with Observations on the Present State of Farming, Etc. Etc. pursued in that Colony: and other Important Matters connected with Emigration
Author: WIDOWSON, Henry
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 8
Heading: Catalogue Raisonne of Recent Publications
Category: Medicine Natural History Psychology Philosophy
Title: The Origin of Life, the Cause of Diseases, and the Source of our Feelings and Senses Explained and Demonstrated
Author: MORRISON, James
Attribution: "The Hygeist"
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 8
Heading: Catalogue Raisonne of Recent Publications
Category: Periodicals Almanacs
Title: The Companion to the Almanac; or Year-book of General Information, for 1829
Institution: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
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