Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, LLD. F.R.S., late president of the American Philosophical Society, &c.

by William Barton

On p. 182, The ’Rudolphine’ Tables are misspelled two ways ([182.27], [182.29]). Both are corrected.

On pp. [327-329], the symbol for Uranus (♅) as printed is not quite the same as the symbol available to us. In the text, the small circle is on the top.

Other errors, deemed most likely to be the printer’s, have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.

[xii.15]	not be deemed pre[p/s]umptuous	Replaced.
[xxxii.28]	the [sun] stood still in the centre	See [Note]
[xxxix.16]	Pyth[oga/ago]ras	Transposed.
[xlvii.4]	of his Physics.[”])	Removed.
[li.9]	Pronaque cum spectent an[a/i]malia	Replaced.
[lii.3]	he may be enabled t[e/o] know himself	Replaced.
[lvii.12]	Hyberni[./,] vel quæ tardis	Replaced.
[lxii.9]	and [security] of navigation	See [Note]
[lxxii.1]	wa[n/s] Johannes de Sacro-Bosco	Replaced.
[lxxiv.17]	for its truth than novelty;[”]	Replaced.
[91.11]	purer morality and sounder [s/p]olicy.	Replaced.
[104.22]	to his friend’s little library	Removed.
[105.7]	personally acquain[t]ed with him	Inserted.
[107.1]	[in]asmuch as the instruments	Restored.
[107.7]	[“]It is observable	Removed.
[110.18]	so long distinguis[n/h]ed	Replaced.
[122.13]	Astronomer’s innate ge[u/n]ius	Replaced.
[140.12]	A descript[t/i]on of	Replaced.
[148.35]	with our guns.[’/”]	Replaced.
[149.10]	as f[o/a]r as the barracks	Replaced.
[164.10]	and these,[”]	Added.
[177.30]	la mesure du temps.[’/”]	Replaced.
[184.1]	by William Sm[ti/it]h	Transposed.
[185.3]	one-hundredth part of[ of] the whole	Removed.
[192.15]	See Laland[e]’s Astron.	Inserted.
[198.16]	it has never been done.[”]	Removed.
[198.17]	[“]I send you a description	Added.
[207.7]	good quality and wor[k]manship	Inserted.
[207.24]	the gl[s/a]ss-works have not	Replaced.
[219.25]	three [hun]hundred pounds	Removed.
[220.25]	reached this country[;/,]	Replaced.
[226.25]	History of the America[u/n] Revolution	Inverted.
[249.22]	the repeated occasions	Removed.
[251.16]	Pennsyl[e/v]ania would not yield	Replaced.
[254.1]	in the ex[u/e]cution of his trust	Replaced.
[260.13]	of this Anti-Newtonian essayist[:/.]	Replaced.
[261.4]	Those of anoth[o/e]r cast	Replaced.
[262.2]	at one of your brothers[,’/’,]	Transposed.
[269.7]	most embar[r]assing circumstances	Inserted.
[303.10]	26th of January, 1[726-7/627]	Replaced
[344.8]	dated “Philadelphia, Oct. 14, 1787[”]	Added.
[360.20]	The agency of i[m/n]formation	Replaced.
[367.10]	annexed to that statio[n.]	Added.
[372.30]	to the Linn[e/æ]an system	Replaced.
[375.24]	that Linn[e/æ]us pronounced him	Replaced.
[388.18]	on such occa[r/s]ions	Replaced.
[400.22]	precisely the reverse.[”]	Removed.
[420.22]	Mr. Ceracchi became embarr[r]assed	Removed.
[455.34]	Professor of Eng[g]lish	Removed.
[458.13]	Mr. Ritten[ten]house was not himself	Removed.
[477.19]	[“]Observations on a Comet	Removed.
[495.20]	classical learning,[”]	Added.
[498.2]	different systems of theology.[”]	Removed.
[508.17]	will be annihilated[:/.]	Replaced.
[512.12]	of the human mind.[”]	Removed.
[513.24]	the inha[h/b]itants of the British colonies	Replaced.
[519.1]	that Dr. Ritten[ten]house	Removed.
[533.23]	the language of Dr. Reid, [“]fruitful	Added.
[534.5]	[“/‘]In God we live, and move,	Replaced.
[534.6]	and have our being.[’]”	Inserted.
[548.8]	Venus a[u/n]d Mercury	Inverted.
[551.22]	which jug[g]ling impostors	Inserted.
[557.25]	in the year 1260[,/.]	Replaced.
[558.42]	by other e[n/m]inent astro[t/n]omers	Replaced.
[564.18]	their phases f[o/r]om full to new	Replaced.
[567.18]	without his being to[./l]d the name	Replaced.
[568.31]	[“]Le Quartier de Reflexion	Added.
[572.12]	by the celebrat[r/e]d Mayer	Replaced.
[574.36]	a distance fr[e/o]m each other	Replaced.
[588.38]	pour trois si[e/è]cles	Replaced.
[593.28]	præsentes literæ pervener[I/]nt	Replaced.
[597.8]	in the laudable business of[ of] writing	Removed.
[614.11]	at dif[f]erent periods	Inserted.