Dr. Stearns's tour from London to Paris.

  • Samuel Stearns
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dr. Stearns's tour from London to Paris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CHAP. IX. Views two Hojpitals, the Royal Obfervatory, and fundry other Magnificent Buildings,—Goes to the French Theatre, &c*—j4 Caution again]} going into bad Company. Paris, July sc, !HIS day I viewed the charity hofpital, and the hofpital for invalids. The latter is a large and elegant building, in which there is a chapel, that is faid to cover as much ground as the cathedral of St. Paul's, in London. The floors of the domes are made of fine marble, and each dome is dedicated to fome faint, whofe ftatue is placed in a niche, or hallow. There are fome of the fin-eft paintings in this chapel that I ever faw ; and the hofpital commonly contains about 200 officers, and 3,000 foldiers. Afterwards I viewed the houfe of Bourbonne, and the royal obfervatory, where aftronomical ob- ferns at ions are taken. I looked through the telef- copes, and furveyedthe mathematical inftruments. I faw an account of the late obfervations, and per- ceived that the French are very accurate in per- formances of that kind: but I did not give them, to underftand that I was a profeffor of the fcience. I alfo
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