take undue and disingenuous advantage of every trivial fault which they can find, whether it proceed from the inaccuracy of the Author, or whether it be caused by the inattention of his Printer. OBSERVATIONS ON THE PLATES ANNEXED TO THE CEDIPUS JUDAICUS. Plates I. II. III. IV. THE first four Plates are copied in miniature from the Egyptian zodiacs and planispheres exhibited by Kircher. To the accuracy of these, many objections have been made, but Bailly has certainly repelled the most important of them. (Histoire de l' Astronomie, p. 500.) Plate V. This Plate represents the fragment of a zodiac found at Rome. Bailly mentions it in the following terms: "M. De Fontenelle dit que ce planisphère est Egyptien et Grec; pour nous, nous le croyons purement Egyptien, et nous y reconnoîtrons des traces de son Origine Indienne." Plate VI. The twelve zodiacal signs are here copied in miniature from the engraving of the great oblong zodiac of Dendera, exhibited in the plates annexed to Mr. Hamilton's Ægyptiaca. Mr. Hamilton has shown, with his usual learning, that the temple of Dendera was either built or repaired about the time of Tiberius; but I am not quite satisfied with the reasons which he gives for supposing, that this zodiac was constructed at the same period. Mr. Hamilton says, that when this zodiac was constructed, the Summer |