Disquisi tio mathemalica in causam Aurae terrae. Milan, 1751; demonstrating, more completely than New ton had done, the spheroidal figure of the earth. 2. Estralto della storia litteraria Italia. Milan, 1753 ; an answer to a review. 3. Saggio della morale ftlo sqfia. Lugano, 1755. 4. Nova electricitatis theoria. Milan, 1755: seems to be the same with a disserta tion De existentia et motu cetheris, seu de theoria electricitatis ignis et lucis, printed with J. A. Euler's Disquisitio de causa physica electricitatis pretend° co ronae:. 1755. 4to, Petersburg. This dissertation shows some ingenuity, but is by no means establish ed on firm foundations. Among some other fanci ful hypotheses, it suggests that light is probably an impulse transmitted by an elastic medium, but not of an undulatory nature. Both these essays seem to have been republished at Lucca with another by Resaud, under the title of Dissertationes selectae quae ad I. P. academiam, anno 1755, missae aunt, 1757. 5. De motu diurno terrae. Pisa, 1758; a disserta tion which obtained a prize from the Academy of Berlin in 1756. 6. Dissertationes variae. 2 vols. 4to, Lucca, 1759, 1761 ; the first volume containing a geometrical solution of the problem of Precession and Nutation ; a Dissertation on the Atmospheres of the Heavenly Bodies, which obtained the prize at Paris in 1758 ; an Essay on the Nature and Motion of the Ether ; the second, a Treatise on the Inequality of the Motion of the Planets, being an enlargement of a prize dissertation which obtained the second pre mium at Paris in 1760; a Dissertation on the Geo metrical method of Fluxion, and some Metaphysi cal Meditations. 8. Piano de lavori per liberare dalle acque. Lucca, 1761; for the use of the pro vinces of Bologna, Ferrara, and Ravenna. 9. Del modo di regolare i futni e torrenti. Lucca, 1762, 1760. Flor. 1770, French, Paris, 1774; especially of the Bolognan and Roman territories; making great use of Guglielmini's works; at the end there is an Elogio di Gabriello Manfredi. 10. Praelectio habita Medidani. 1764. 11. Saggio sopra 'architectura •Gotica. Leghorn, 1766. 12. Lettre a M. D'Alembert. Par. 1767. 13. Elogio del Galileo. Leghorn and Milan, 1775, French by Floncel, 12mo, Par. 1767; an elegant specimen df biography. 14. On the sup posed inequalities in the rotation
the earth and moon. Inst. Bologn. Vol. V. Op. p. 11 (1787): the same volume contains a Prospectus of the work on the Laws of Gravity, p. 514. 15. De gravitate uni versale libri tres. 4to, Milan, 1768; a work con sidered as a model of elegance, simplicity, and fa cility ; leaving, however, the fact of the moon's ac celeration still unexplained, and even stating doubts of its existence. 16. Della maniera di preservare gli edinei dal fultnine. Milan, 1768 ; by conductors.
17. De inequalitate motua planetarum, a dissertation which obtained the second premium at Paris in 1768.
18. Melandri et Frisii de theoria lunge commentarii, Parma, 1769. 19. Cosmographia physica et mathe matica, 2 vols. 4to, Milan, 1774, 1775 ; this is Frisi's principal work ; it contains the substance of the three books on the laws of gravity, with additional matter ; it is only superseded by the Micanique Ce leste in point of practical utility, but still retains the advantage of more satisfactory geometrical repre sentation, and less unnecessary complication in the modes of reasoning employed. 20. Dell architectura statica e idraulica. Milan, 1777. 21. A letter to Melander on the transit of Venus. Atli di Sienna, Vol. IV. p. 21 (1771); with some illustrations of the lunar perturbations. 22. Geometrical Problems, lb. Vol. V. p. 27 (1772); relating to intersections and circles. 23. Elogi di Galileo e di Cavalieri. Milan, 1778, Pisa, 1779. 24. Elogio del Cay. I. Netvton. 8vo. Milan, 1778. 25. Llogio del Conte D. Silva. Milan, 1779, anonymous. 26. Elogio di Tito Pomponio Attica. Milan, 1780; a compliment to the Count de Firmian. 27. Opu.sedi,fi/os9fici. Milan, 1781; denying the fancied influence of the moon on the weather, which Toaldo very unsuccess fully attempted to assert in answer ; with disserta tions on Conductors, on the effect of Oil on Water, on the Heat of the Earth, and on Subterraneous Rivers. 28. On Isoperimetrical Maxima and Minima. Atti di Sienna, Vol. VI. p. 121 (1781) ; intended as a simpler mode of obtaining the results than that of Euler. 29. A Collection of his Works, in three volumes, was begun in 1782, and remained unfinish ed at the time of his death. The first volume con tained Algebra and Geometry ; the second, Me chanics and Hydraulics ; the third, the Cosmogra phy. 30. Elogio di Maria Teresa. Pisa, 1783 ; anonymous. 31. Lettera intorno agli stutij del Sign. T. Perelli. Pisa, 1784. 33. Elogio di D'Alembert. Milan, 1788; posthumous. 32. An Essay on Arches and Domes•, Atti della Societa Patriotica di Milano. Vol. I. 1783 ; correcting some statements of Coup let and Belidor.
He left several unpublished works in the hands of his two brothers, 1. On the mediocrity of the Jesu its. 2. Elements of the Cartesian algebra. 3. In stitutions of mechanics. 4. Of the restoration of the navigation between Milan and Pavia. 6. Insti tutiones hydrometricee. 6. Elements of hydrody namics. 7. Elements of hydraulics. 8. Memoirs of his travels in France and England. 9. Lectures delivered at Pisa. 10. Prielectiones de malis spiriti bus. 11. Severtd miscellaneous dissertations.
Memorie del S. D. P. Frisi, 4. Milan, 1787.-Fabbroni Elogj Italiani.-Atti di Milano, Vol. II.-Chalmers's Biographical Diction ary, Vol. XIV. 8. Lond. 1814.-Aikin's General Biography, Vol. X. 4. Lond. 1815.-Guillon in Biographic Universelle, Vol. XVII. 8. Par. 1816.)