BERNARD DE FONTENELLE,

One of the Forty belonging to the French Academy; and Secretary to the Academy of Sciences.

WITH NOTES,

AND A CRITICAL ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S WRITINGS,

BY

JEROME DE LA LANDE,

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF THE OBSERVATORY AT PARIS.

Translated from a late Paris Edition, by

MISS ELIZABETH GUNNING.

London: PRINTED BY J. CUNDEE, IVY-LANE; SOLD BY T. HURST, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1803.