200
Zanolini, Rossini, 1876.
201
Clément, Les Musiciens Célèbres, Paris, 1878.
202
Alborghetti, Vita di Donizetti, 1876.
203
D’Este, Memorie su Canova, 1864.
204
Gotti, Vita di Michelangelo, Florence, 1873.
205
Milanesi, Lettere di Michelangelo, Florence, 1875.
206
Amoretti, Memorie storiche sulla vita e gli studi di Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, 1874.
207
W. Irving, Columbus, vol. i. p. 819; Roselly de Lorque, Vie de Colomb., 1857.
208
According to Secchi (Soleil, 1875) Scheiner preceded Galileo, and was himself preceded by Fabricio, though the discovery of this last was not known until a later date.
209
Galilei, Opere, vol. i. p. 69.
210
Arago, Œuvres, 1851.
211
Hœfer, op. cit.
212
Herschel, Outlines of Astronomy, 1874.
213
Arago, Notices Biographiques, 1855.
214
Atti, Della Vita di Malpighi, 1774.
215
Hœfer, Histoire de la Chimie, 1869.
216
Briefe an Schiller.
217
Gherardi, Rapporti sui Manoscritti di Galvani, 1839.
218
Schiaparelli, Intorno Alcune Lettere inedite di Lagrange, 1877.
219
Humboldt, Correspondance, Paris, 1868.
220
Letters from Humboldt to Varnhagen.
221
Arago, Notices Biographiques, 1855.
222
Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences, 1857.
223
N. Bianchi, Vita di Matteucci, Florence, 1874.
224
The catalogue of small planets has been drawn from the Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes (Paris, 1877-8). The list of comets has been taken from Carl’s Repertorium der Cometen Astronomie (Munich, 1864). It begins with the comet discovered by Hevelius in 1672, and ends with that found by Donati on the 23rd of July, 1864; Gambart’s comets, already separately enumerated, have been excluded. To keep the conditions analogous to those of the small planets, all the comets to which Carl does not assign a discoverer, have been omitted; this includes such as were expected from previous calculations or perceived with the naked eye by the general population. All those that were discovered simultaneously by several observers, unknown to one another, have, however, been included, for it is not a question of priority, but of the psychological moment of the discovery. Three comets discovered in the months of February, May, and December, were found in the southern hemisphere; they must, therefore, with reference to season be registered as for August, November, and June, and have so been counted.