[392] de Maupertius: Eléments de Géographie, xv, 9-14.
[393] de Premontval: 123.
[394] Ibid: 132.
[395] Ibid: 157.
[396] Cassini: De l'Origine et du Progrès ..., 35.
[397] Shields: 59. I have failed to find this reference in Bossuet's works.
[398] Fénelon: Oeuvres, I, 3 and 7.
[399] Pluche: Histoire du Ciel: viii, ix, xiii.
[400] Cath. Ency.: "Boscovich."
[401] Opera: III (1785).