. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. pplement,twovolumes 12mo; Du Transport, de la Conservation, & de laForce du Bois, 1761, quarto; Traite des Ar-bres Fruitiers, two volumes quarto, 1768 :—thisis a very splendid work on fruit-trees and theirculture, with plates ; it comprises only the pomaand baccse. Du Hamel also composed severaltreatises which had a reference to his office inthe marine; as, Art de la Corderie, 1747,and 1769 ; Elemens dArchitecture Na
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. pplement,twovolumes 12mo; Du Transport, de la Conservation, & de laForce du Bois, 1761, quarto; Traite des Ar-bres Fruitiers, two volumes quarto, 1768 :—thisis a very splendid work on fruit-trees and theirculture, with plates ; it comprises only the pomaand baccse. Du Hamel also composed severaltreatises which had a reference to his office inthe marine; as, Art de la Corderie, 1747,and 1769 ; Elemens dArchitecture Navale,1758, quarto ; Moyens de conserver la Sante-aux Equipages, &c. 1759, i2mo. He likewisewrote a work on fisheries, entitled Traite Ge-neral des Peches .Maritimes, des Rivieres, & , folio, with figures ; and he composedseveral articles for the Description of Arts andManufactures published by the Academy of Sci-ences. He wrote with clearness and method,without any declamatory digressions. Hist. Halleri Bibl. Botan.—A. HAMELMANN, Herman, an eminentGerman Lutheran divine and historian in tliesixteenth century, was born at Osjiaburgh, ^^Ur^^tA^^.^lifrtl^rlant .fittf f^«^JVftti/tu^in.*^U
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