[3] Author of LECONS D'ANATOMIE COMPAREE--RECHERCHES SUR OSSEMENS
FOSSILES &c. &c.
[4] Author of MEMORIA SULLE FUNZIONI GENERATRICI, Modena, 1824,
and of various other memoirs on mathematical subjects.
[5] Author of several memoirs on mechanics and hydraulics, in the
Transactions of the Academy of Forty.
[6] Author of TABLES BAROMETRIQUES, Gotha, 1809--TABULAE VENERIS,
NOVAE ET CORRECTAE, Gothae, 1810--INVESTIGATIO NOVA ORBITAE A
MERCURIO CIRCA SOLEM DESCRIPTAE, Gothae, 1813, and of other
works.


M. Lindenau, the Minister from the King of Saxony to the King of
the Netherlands, commenced his career as astronomer at the
observatory of the Grand Duke of Gotha, by whom he was sent as
his representative at the German Diet. On the death of the late
reigning Duke, M. Lindenau was invited to Dresden, and filled the
same situation under the King of Saxony; after which he was
appointed his minister at the court of the King of the
Netherlands. Such occurrences are not to be paralleled in our
own country, at least not in modern times. Newton was, it is
true, more than a century since, appointed Master of the Mint;
but let any person suggest an appointment of a similar kind in
the present day, and he will gather from the smiles of those to
whom he proposes it that the highest knowledge conduces nothing
to success, and that political power is almost the only
recommendation.


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