WARGENTIN (Peter)

, an ingenious Swedish mathematician and astronomer, was born Sept. 22, 1717, and died Dec. 13, 1783. He became secretary to the Academy at Stockholm in 1749, when he was only 32 years of age; and he became successively a member of most of the literary academies in Europe, as London, Paris, Petersburg, Gottingen, Upsal, Copenhagen, Drontheim, &c. In this country he is probably most known on account of his tables for computing the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, which are annexed to the Nautical Almanac of 1779. I know not that he has published any separate work; but his communications were very numerous to several of those Academies of which he was a member; as the Academy of Stockholm, in which are 52 of his memoirs; in the Philosophical Transactions, the Upsal Acts, the Paris Memoirs, &c.