PRINTED BY JOHN BROWN, ANCHOR CLOSE, FOR THE PROPRIETORS, AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 1816. AE E56 ENCYCLOPEDIA PERTHENSIS. AST ASTROSCOPE, an aftronomical inftrument, compofed of two cones, on whofe furface the Citations, with their ftars, are delineated, by where of the ftars may easily be known It vented by William Schukhard, formerly or of mathematics at Tubingen, who pub hed a treatife on it in 1698. AS T ftant clergyman, and bestowed particular pains upon his education; after which he went to the univerfity of Montpelier, where he was created A M. in 1700. He then began the study of me dicine; and, in two years, obtained the degree of M. B. having written a diflertation on the caufe of fermentation, which he defended in a very spirited manner. On the 25th of January 1793, he was created M. D. after which, be applied to the ftudy of medical authors, ancient and modern, with uncommon affiduity. In 1710, he publish ed a treatife on mufcular motion, from which he obtained great reputation. In 1717, he was appointed to teach medicine at Montpelier; which he did with uncommon perfpicuity and cloquence. His fame foon rofe to fuch a height, that the king aligned him an annual falary, and appointed him to fuperintend the mineral waters in Languedoc. But, as Montpelier did not afford fufficient fcope for his afpiring genius, he went to Paris, with a great ftock of MSS. which he intended to publith, after fubjecting them to the examina ASTROSCOPIA, the art of examining the ftars telefcopes. Huygens improved this art conliby, in his Altrofcopia Compendiaria, where Bethows how to manage the largeft glaifes with at help of a tube. ASTROSCOPY: to view. Obfervation [uses, a ftar, and exoHEW, the itars. Dict. ASTROTHEMATA, in aftrology, the pofitions of the ftars in a theme of the heavens. tion of the learned. Soon after, however, he left it, having, in 1729, accepted the office of first phyfician to the king of Poland. His ftay in Poland, however, was but of fhort duration, and he again returned to Paris. Upon the death of the celebrated Geoffroy, in 17.1, he was appointed Regius Profellor of Medicine at great applaufe, as to draw from other univerfities Paris. He taught the practice of phyfic with fo a great concourfe of medical students, foreigners as well as natives of France. He was equally ceGamal and annual revolutions are the motions of that intenfe ftudy which firft raifed his reputaobfervations of the celeftial bodies. Thit the ced age, he perfifted with unwearied affiduity in lebrated as a practitioner; and, even at an advanThe terraqucous globe, not of the fun, I thew in tion. Hence he has been enabled to tranfmit to kw, and theologia, divinity.] Divinity founded on ASTRO-THEOLOGY, n. / [from frum, a the preface of my Aftro-Theology. Derkam, ASTROTHESIA, (from ag, and, to cal erudition. He died, univerially regretted, on pofterity, many valuable monuments of his medi pace) is ufed by fome for a conftellation. ASTROTHESY. See ARATUS, N° 1. ASTRUC, John, a celebrated phyfician, author the 15th of May 1756, in the 82d year of his age. of a Treatife on the Venereal Difeafe, and other femblage of fars: in which fenfe it was diftinForks, was born in 1684, at the little town of guished from afler, which denotes a fingle far. ASTRUM, or ASTRON, a conftellation, er af Say, in Languedoc. His father was a prote VOL. III. PART I. di ASTURA, a town of Italy, in the Campagna |