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An extract of M. Dela Quintiny's Letter, written to the publisher in French sometime agoe, concerning his way of ordering melons; now communicated in English for the satisfaction of several curious melonists in England
Authors: Quintiny Dela
Published: December 2006

I shall now answer to that particular of your letter, which concerns
melons
, as exactly as I can. All the
seeds
, I sent you, produce
melons
with a thin and somewhat embroider’d skin, not divided by ribbs: Some of them have their skin whitish, others of the colour of
slate
.
An account concerning the resolution of equations in numbers; imparted by Mr. John Collins
Authors: Collins John
Published: December 2006

This account should have been annex’d to what was discoursed of Monsieur
Slusius
his
Mesolabe
in the precedent tract, if then we had found room for it.
An accompt of such of the more notable celestial phænomena of the Year 1670, as will be conspicuous in the English horizon; written by the learned and industrious Mr. John Flamstead Novemb. 4. 1669. and by him addressed and recommended for encouragement, to the Right Honorable, the Lord Viscount Brouncker, as President of the Royal Society
Authors: Flamsteed John
Published: December 2006

My Lord, Among those many Illustrious, Noble, and Generous Persons, who have the honour to be in the List of the
R. Society
, I find numbered some Astronomers, whom our Age accounts its Glory, and our Arts their Support:
An answer of Dr. Wallis to Mr. Hobbes's rosetum geometricum in a letter to a friend in London, dated July 16. 1671
Authors: Wallis Johannes
Published: December 2006

Clarissime vir, Perlegi Hobbij sive Rosetum, sive Fimetum, (
nam utrumque olet
;) in quo antiquum obtinet:
An other extract of a letter written from Midleton in Warwickshire to the Publisher July 10
th
by Francis Willughby Esquire; about the hatching of a kind of bee, lodged in Old Willows
Authors: Willughby Francis
Published: December 2006

The Cartrages that I got at
Astrop
near a Twelfmonth ago, do now almost every day afford me a Bee; and I can hear them gnawing out their way before I see them.
An advertisement necessary to be given to the reader of the Latin version, made by Mr. Sterpin at Copenhagen, of the Philosophical transactions of A. 1669; printed at Franckfurt on the main by Dan. Pauli, A. 1671
Authors: Pauli Dan.
Published: December 2006

The Advertisement relating chiefly to Forrain Readers, it was thought more proper to deliver it in
Latin
, than
English
; viz.
Some additions of Mr. Lyster to his former communications about vegetable excrescencies, and ichueumon wasps; together with an inquiry concerning Tarantula's and a discovery of another musk-sented insect: transmitted to the publisher from York in two letters, of Octob. 16. and 28. 1671
Authors: Lyster
Published: December 2006

The Extract of one of these letters
: That this Letter may not be without all matter of Philosophy, you may take an occasion to put this
Quære
to your correspondents of
Italy
, viz.
Extract of a letter of Monsieur Hevelius from Dantzick written to the publisher in Latin, March 9. (st. nov.) 1672; giving some accompt of a new Comet, lately seen in that country: Englished as followeth
Authors: Hevelius Johannes
Published: December 2006

I Shall not excuse my long silence, but acquaint you in brief with a New Appearance in the Heavens.
Dr. John Wallis his answer, by way of letter to the publisher, to the book, entituled Lux Mathematica, &c. described in Numb. 86. of these tracts
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Clarissime Vir
, Vldi Ego, præteritâ,
Hobbii
quem memoras librum no. vura, cui titulus
Lux Mathematica
.
Ejuldem Doctoris Wallis II Non-nulla, De cetro gravitatis hyperboœ, prægressæ epistolæ subnexa
Authors: Wallis
Published: December 2006

Tandem verò, ne nihil habeas prœter
Constutatum Hobbium, (
quœ forte non tantires est, ut de ea multum sis solicitus
;) libet hic annecters, De Centro Gravitatis Hyperboles nonnihil; (
prœterito Anno conscriptum
;)
Miscellaneis illis, si placet subjungendum, quœ habemus
ad Prop. I. Cap. XV. De Motu.
Nempe
, pag. 753. l. 26. ibidem.
An extract of letters from Dr. John Wallis to the publisher, 1672. Sept. 26. &c. concerning the suspension of quick silver mell purged of air, much higher than the ordinary standard in the Torricellian Experiment
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Sir, I am not sorry to find, in your
Transactions
for the last Month, (which I have newly received,) that M.
Hugens
, an Ingenious and Inquisitive person, doth endeavour to give a Reason of that Odd
phœnomenon
in the Torricellian Experiment.
A discovery of two new planets about Saturn made in the Royal Parisian Observatory by Signor Cassini, Fellow of both the Royal Societys, of England and France; English't out of French.
Authors: Cassini Jean Dominique
Published: December 2006

Bout the end of Otfober 3671. Saturn pafs’d clofc by Four ± fmall Fix't Stars, vifibleonly by a Telefcope, within the finus of the Water of Aquaris, which once took for NewSatellits of Jupiter, calling them 3 but which Hevelius(who called them fiiew’d to be fome o f the common Fix't Stars, that may every day be seen by a telescope any where in the heavens.
A letter of Mr Lister dated May 21. 1673. in York, partly taking notice of the foregoing intimations, partly communicating some anatomical observations and experiments concerning the unalterable character of the whiteness of the chyle within the lacteous veins; together with divers particulars observed in the guts, expecially several sorts of worms found in them.
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

As to the Veins of Plants, which Mr. Lister observes not to be ramified, but rather bundles of them divaricated; they do in this represent the Nerves, which (as in Dr.Willis de Cerebro is observed) go together in that which seems the common trunk, like a bunch of Threds, which after separate and are variously divaricated; and these Nervs, being cut, shrink up (as the Venis of Plants,) as much or more than do the Veins or Arteries of Animals.
Parallelogrammum Prosopographicum sive Modus novus delineandi per radios parallelos ad Æqualitatem Orthogrophicam, gestus, situs, habitusque quoscunque humani corporis, servata symmetria, & proportione partium
Authors: de Sancto-Claro Scoto-Lothiano Joanne
Published: December 2006

Novum modum delineandi per radios parallelos descripturus, de Clarissimi
Scheineri
arte delineandi, per connum radiosum, quám brevissimè potero pancis absolvam
.
A description of a bee-house, useful for preventing the swarming of bees, used in Scotland with good success; where of one, sent by a worthy gentleman, Sir William Thomson, may be seen in Gresham Colledg
Authors: Thomson William
Published: December 2006

Though we find several Draughts of different Bee-hives, to the intention of preventing swarming, in Mr.
Hartlibs Common wealth
of Bees; yet since none of those wayes proved so effectual, as may justly exclude second thoughts and further experience, the Publisher thought it not amiss to present the curious with the following Form, and its description, wherein he thinks the Reader will meet with several improvements of those attempts that were made before.
A letter of the Honorable Robert Boyle of Sept. 13. 1673. to the publisher, concerning amber greece, and its being a vegetable production.
Authors: Boyle Robert
Published: December 2006

Sir, Some occasions calling me this afternoon up to London, I met there with a very Intelligent Gentleman, who was ready to go out of it; but before he did so, he willingly spar'd me some time to discourse with him about some of the Affairs of our East-Indian Company, of which he was very lately Deputy Governour; and, his year being expired, is still one of the chief of the Court of Committees, which a forreigner would call Directors that manage all the affairs of that considerable Society.
An extract of a letter, written by Monsieur Denys Novemb. 17. last from Paris concerning an odd fætus lately born there ; English't out of French
Authors: Denys Monsieur
Published: December 2006

Sir, A Few days since, I was called to a sick woman, brought to bed that very day I went to see her. After I had pre­scribed the physick I judged necssary for the mother,I asked for the child, which died, I heard, as soon as't was born.
An extract of Signor Cassini's letter concerning a spot lately seen in the sun; together with a remarkable observation of Saturn, made by the same
Authors: Cassini Jean Dominique
Published: December 2006

Gratissima mihi fuit observatio solaris macule
Occultatio Martis & quarundam fixarum observata Gedani, anno 1676, die 1.Sept.ft.n. mane, tubis inprimis 12. & 20, pedum à Joh. Hevelio
Authors: Hevelius Johannes
Published: December 2006

Die 31 Augusti, aër ominò nubilosus, imò circa vesperam pluvius extitit, sic ut vix spes aliqua supersuerit conjunctionem hanc arctissimam luna & Martis observandi; nihilominus tamen, coelo circa mediam noctem undique sereno, observatio hac notabilis, lunâ pene dimidiatâ existente, ex voto successit; ut non soliùm ingressum Martis sub Lunam exactissimè, sed etiam egressum ejus omnium optimè animadvertere nobis obtigerit; utiex apposita observatione liquet.
Two letters written by Mr. John Beaumont Junior of Stony-Easton in Somerset-shire, concerning rock-plants and their growth
Authors: Beaumont John
Published: December 2006

I lately persued the greatest part of the Philosophical Transactions; in which I received so great a satisfaction, that I resolved to gratifie your generous communications (if I may call it a gratuity) with some of the newest occurents I have met with in nature, which, if as kindly accepted as freely sent you, I shall readily do the like for the future as far as my ability and observations will help me out.
Extract of a letter written to the publisher, concerning a factitious stony matter or paste, shining in the dark like a glowing coal, after it hath been a little while exposed to the day-or candle-light
Authors: Balduin Christian Adolph
Published: December 2006

Quanquam elapso proximè anno officiosissimè scriptas sua literas sestari continuò debuissem quanti facerem, religioni tamen duxi id facere, antequam phosphorum meum modis omnibus absolutum darem consicérmque:
A continuation of Mr. Boyle’s experiments, published in the the next foregoing tract, about fluids contiguous to other fluids
Authors: Boyle Robert
Published: December 2006

In the winter time, and at other times also when the air is cold enough, the figure, acquir'd by the surface of an oil contiguous to the water on one side, and the air on the other, may be preserved from varying, and so may be at leisure observed by the direction afforded by the following experiment, which I devised for this purpose .
II. Johannis Trithemii Steganographia, vindicata, reserata, & illustrata, &c. Auth. Wolfgango Ernesto Heidel, Wormatiensi. Moguntiæ, 1676. in 4
0
Authors: Trithemii Johannis , Heidel Wolfgango Ernesto
Published: December 2006

This
Steganography
,(which word imports the Art of signifying ones mind to another by an occult or secret way of writing) having been censured as supposititious by some, and pernicious, magical and necromantical by others;
A relation of some strange phænomena, accompanied with mischievous effects in a cole work in Flintshire sent March 3rd 1677. to the Reverand and eminently leanred Dr Bathhurst, Dean of Bath and Wells, by an ingenius gentleman, Mr. Roger Moslyn, of the Inner Temple, who at the said Doctors request, obtained it from his fathers steward and overseer of his cole-works, who was upon the place when the thing was done; the same Mr. Moslyn being also assured of it from his father, Sr. Roger Moslyn, Lord of the Mann
Authors: Moslyn Roger
Published: December 2006

A relation of some strange phænomena, accompanied with mischievous effects in a cole work in Flintshire sent March 3rd 1677. to the Reverand and eminently leanred Dr Bathhurst, Dean of Bath and Wells, by an ingenius gentleman, Mr. Roger Moslyn, of the Inner Temple, who at the said Doctors request, obtained it from his fathers steward and overseer of his cole-works, who was upon the place when the thing was done; the same Mr. Moslyn being also assured of it from his father, Sr. Roger Moslyn, Lord of the Mannor, and several others, who were eye-witnesses. The cole-work at Moslyn in Flintshire lies in a large parcel of wood-land, that from the countries side which lies to the south hath a great fall of the several rocks or quarries of stone that are above the cole
The manner of hatching chicken at Cairo, observed by Mr. John Graves, sometime Professor of Astronomy at Oxford; and communicated by Sr. George Ent, late President of the college of Physitians, London.
Authors: Graves John
Published: December 2006

They begin in the midst of January to heat the Ovens: Spending every Morning an hundred Kintars (or an hundred pound weight) of Camels, or of Buffulo's Dung; and the like Proportion at Night, till the midst of February.
A relation of the making of Ceruss, by Sir Philiberto Vernatti
Authors: Vernatti Philiberto
Published: December 2006

First Pigs of clean and soft Lead are cast into this Plates a yard long, six inches broad, and to the thickness of the back of a Knife.
Experiments of refining gold with Antimony; made by Dr. Jonathan Goddard
Authors: Goddard Jonathan
Published: December 2006

There was taken of Crown -
Gold
(which is, as they call it, of 22
keratts
fine, or 11/12; and the Alloy is part
Silver
, part
Copper,
more of the
Copper
for the most part) to the quantity of 7-
peny weight
and 10
grains
,
i. e.
178
grains
.
Extract of a letter written by Signior Borelli, about the price of his telescopes; Communicated to Sir Jonas Moore
Authors: Borelli Giovanni Alfonso
Published: December 2006

The said worthy person saith, that although he did hot at first intend any more than to present his Glasses to some of the most famous Astronomers; yet being earnestIy soliicited by his Friends from many parts, he offers to rate the price of them, according to what the most known Artists, such as
Campani
and
Divini
, have done who both have commonly sold their Glasses at the rate of a Pistol (
i. e.
about 17 shillings and fix pence ) the foot.
A new engin to make linen-cloth without the help of artificer, presented to the Royal Academy, by Monsieur de Gennes, an officer belonging to the sea. Extracted out of the journal de scavans
Authors: de Gennes
Published: December 2006

This Engin is no other than a Mill, to which are apply’d all the parts of a Weavers ordinary Loom- This Mill is composed of four principal parts, that is to say, the Serpent
A
A
, two Footsteps or Treddles
B
B
, one Clapper
C
, and two Arms
D D D D
.
An account of two books: - I. A discourse of the state of health in the Island of Jamaica, with a provision calculated for the same, from the air, the place, and the water; the customs and manner of living, &c. By Thomas Trapham M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. Soc. Hon. - II. Catalogus stellarum austraiium: sive supplementum catalogi tychonici, exhibens longitudines & latitudines stellarum fixarum, quæ prope Polum antarcticum sitæ, in horixonte uraniburgico Tychoni inconspicua fuere, accurato calculo, ex di
Authors: Trapham Thomas
Published: December 2006

I. A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, with a Provision calculated for the same, from the Air, the Place, and the Water ; the Customs and manner of Living, &c. By Thomas Trapham M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. Soc. Hon. II. Catalogus stellarum austraiium: sive supplementum catalogi tychonici, exhibens longitudines & latitudines stellarum fixarum, quæ prope Polum antarcticum sitæ, in horixonte uraniburgico Tychoni inconspicua fuere, accurato calculo, ex distantiis supputatas, & ad Annum 1677. completum correctas. Cumipsis observationibus in insula S. Helena (cujus latitudo 15 gr. 55 m. Austr. & Longit. 7 gr. 00 m. ad occasum à londino) summâ curâ & sextante satis magno de cælo depromptis. Opus ab astronomicis bactenus desideratum. Accedit appendicula de rebus quibusdam astronomicis, notatunon indignis. Authore Edmundo Halleio è Coll. Reg. Oxon. This Book is divided by the Ingenious Author into ten Chapters, with a Conclusion.
An account of a Book, viz. The geometrical key, or construction of all equations linear, quadratic, cubic and biquadratic, by a circle and one only parabole
Authors: Baker Thomas
Published: December 2006

The
Analysis
which the
Ancients
used for the constructing
problems
geomatrically or by lines, has been highly advanced by
des Carter's
method; that part of this method which concerns local
Problems
has been well explained by
de Wit
, but the other and more principal part of constructing
Equations
has been lately cleared by
de la Hire
.
A conjecture about an under-Current at the streights-mouth, read before the Oxford Society, Dec. 21. 1683. by the reverend and learned Tho.Smith D. D. Fellow of Mag. Col. Oxon. and of the R. Society
Authors: Smith Thomas
Published: December 2006

In the
offing
between the
North Foreland
and
South Foreland
it runs
Tide
and
half Tide
, that is it is either
ebbing
water or
flood
upon the shore, in that partos the
Downs
, three hours, which is grosly speaking the time of
half
a
tide
, before it is so,
off
at
Sea
.
The longitudes, latitudes, right ascensions, and declinations of the chiefest fixt stars according to the best observer; in a letter from Mr. Edward Bernard, to the reverend and learned Dr. Rob. Huntington Provost of Trinity College near Dublin in Ireland
Authors: Bernard Edward
Published: December 2006

Dum dies aliquot rigidissimae omnium brumae, quarum apudvivos memoria, in Museo Mertonensi, ubi te nuper ac olimnovimus, ego forte comburerem, crudamque tui absentiam opportunitate loci quadantenus lenirem: inter codices tuos Arabitos ( numeras autem plus quadraginta doctrinæ & observationis Sidpralis refertis) in Tabulis Ilchanicis studio Persæ præclari Choagæ Nasirodini Tusii factum offendi, ut precipui honoris stellas fixas fecundum variorum Astronomorum varia observata, qua Latæ ut Loquuntur, quave illæ Longæ in cælo deprehendebantur, brevis pagina repræsentaret.
An abstract of a letter from Mr. Anthony Leevvenhoeck at Delft, dated Sep. 17. 1683. Containing some microscopical observations, about animals in the scurf of the teeth, the substance call'd worms in the nose, the cuticula consisting of scales
Authors: Leewenhoeck Anthony
Published: December 2006

I Formerly sent some Observation about Spittle, which I find have been Printed in the Lectures and Collections of Mr. R. H. in the year 1678.
A letter from the learned and ingenious Maurice Wheeler M. A. and Rector of Sibbertoft in Northamptonshiire, to the publisher of these tracts, concerning a movement that measures time after a peculiar manner, with an account of the reasons of the said motion
Authors: Wheeler Maurice
Published: December 2006

Hon. Sir, The Relation Which I have, and the great Respect that I bear to the lately erected
Philosophical Society in Oxford
, will ever oblige me to serve it in the meanest offices, if thereby I may contribute the smallest Advancement towards that noble Design they are in pursuit of.
Observations of the eclipse of the sun on the 12 of July last ( new style ) made at the observatory at Paris 1684. in the lower apartment, by Messieurs Cassini and Sedileau; in the upper, by Messieurs de la Hire and Pothenot. At the College of Lewis the Great, in the presence of Monseigneur the Duke of Bourbon, by R. P. Fontenay ; at aix in province; at Lyons ; at the Bay of Roses; at Honsleur and at Pau; by divers other learned persons
Authors: Cassini Messieurs , Sedileau  , Hire Messieurs De La , Pothenot  , Fontenay R. P.
Published: December 2006

For observing this
Eclipse
, beside the
Instruments
which were made use of for observing that of the
Moon
, at the
Focus
of the
Glass
of 40 foot, was placed circle of paper equal to the Suns Image, divided into 12 digits, by concentrick circles ; and, to another Glass of 6 foot, was applyed, on the
parailatick
Engine, another circle equal to that at the
Focus
of the Glass of 40 foot.
The observations of the ancients concerning the obliquity of the zodiac, in a letter of Mr. Edward Bernard to Mr. John Flamsteed Math. Reg
Authors: Bernard Edward
Published: December 2006

De Obliquitate Zodiaci, Scriptores Græci
. Hanc reperit Eratosthenes, ante natum Christum an. 230. Grad. 23. atque insuper 51'. 19'. 31". 5''.
Two letters from the great, and experienced oculist Dr. Turbervile of Salisbury, to Mr. William Musgrave S. P. S. of Oxon, containing several remarkable cases in physick, relating chiefly to the eyes
Authors: Turbervile Dawbeney
Published: December 2006

The first Letter
.
SIR
, Understanding that your
Philosophical
Society
has lately received accounts of some unusual Distempers of the
Eyes
, and that more accounts of this nature will be welcome to you, and are desir'd of me in particular; I should not act suitable to the great respect, which I have to the worthy
Gentlemen
of that
Society
, should I not endeavor to answer the expectation they have of me.
An extract of a letter from the Reverend and learned Dr. John Wallis, to the publisher Dr. Robert Plot; concerning two very large some chimney-pieces: with a peculiar sort of arch-work thereom.
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Having been lately at Edgecot in Northamptonshire, at the house of Tobias Chancey Esq; he shewed me in an ancient Kitchin ( now disused) two Chimneys, vastly large, of Stone-work.
Some experiments about freezing, and the difference betwixt common fresh water Ice, and that of sea water: also a probable Conjecture about the original of the Nitre of Ægypt: by Dr. Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

December 3d 1684 at Night I exposed 4 Glasse bottles in the open aire upon the ground to
freeze
; viz., of the
Red-Natron
Water from
Ægypt
;
An extract of a letter from Senior Ciampini, to Dr. Croon, concerning a late Comet seen at Rome
Authors: Ciampini John
Published: December 2006

Ovus
Cometes
nuper coelo visus est a lynceo oculo Abb.
An abstract of a letter from Dr. Peirce of bath, to one of the S. of the R. S. giving an instance of the effects of the Bath in curing the palsy, and barrenness
Authors: Peirce Dr.
Published: December 2006

Among the many diseases these waters have been samous for the cure of , Palsys and Barrenness are two; an instance of both, in one person, I shall now give you.
An abstract of a letter from Dr. Peirce of Bath, to one of the S. of the R. S. giving an account of a shell found in one of the kidneys of a woman
Authors: Peirce Robert
Published: December 2006

Sir, The Account of the
Shell
found in the Kidney of a Woman is as follows; A Gentle- Women of about 28 years of Age, very Fat, and Corpulent, after having been long troubled with frequent, and sometimes violent Vomitings, fell at length into a Feaver, which had no very ill Symptomes at first;
Part of a letter from Sr. R. B. to Dr. L. concerning a new sort of calesh.
Authors: B Sr. R.
Published: December 2006

Sr. William Petty, Mr. Molyneux and I have spent this day in making experiments, with a new invented Calesh, along with the Inventor thereof; 'tis he that was in London when I was there, but he never made any of these Caleshes there, for his invention is much improved since he came thence; it is in all points different from any machine I have ever seen:
A letter from Mr.Ray, Fellow of the R. S. To Dr. Robinson; concerning the French Macreuse
Authors: Ray John
Published: December 2006

Sir, I had no sooner seen the cases of the male, and female
Macreuse
, which you sent me, but instant I found that the
Macreuse
was no Stranger to me, though unknown by that name: I was very much pleased to be so suddenly rid of my long continued scruples about it, and not a little surprized, when I found it to be another kind of Bird then I imagined; a particular description of the Cock, you may find in Mr.
Willughby's Ornithology
pag. $66.of the English Edition, among the Sea-Ducks, to which kind this Bird belongs, and not to the
Divers
or
Duckers
(
Mergi
or
Colymbi
,) as I falsly fancied to my self.
An abstract of a letter from Mr. Leewenhoeck, to the R. S. Dated Jan. 23rd, 1685; concerning the various figures of the salts contained in several substances
Authors: Leewenhoeck Mr.
Published: December 2006

I Took some of the
Salt
of
Carduus
Benedictus
, such as is commonly to be sold in the Apothecary's shops: it was something moist, and the parts seem'd to be so hudled up together, that they could not be distinguished from one another: I closed it up in a Glass, that the moistness thereof might not be evaporated; and when it had stood stopt for some days, I perceived that many of the particles were gone together, upon the side of the Glass, making some flat longish figures, of different magnitudes; the biggest whereof, were about the length of the Diameter of a hair of my Beard, as Numb.
An historical account of a strangely self-moving liquor.
Authors: Boyle Robert
Published: December 2006

An Ingenious Teacher of Mathematicks, having occasion to make a Composition for a new Fire-Engine, whereof he was to shew his Majesty a Triall, mingled divers Ingredients in a Earthen Pot, over kindled Coals;
Historia ulceris in inguine dextro, intestinorum fæces emittentis; à D
no
. Gui: Earnshaw, Medico Alcestrensi, descripta & communicata
Authors: Earnshaw
Published: December 2006

Mulier quædam
alcestrensls
in agro
warwicenst
, annos quasi quadraginta nata, à vicino oppido domum rediens, subito corripitur dolore vehementi inguinis dextri, cui successit singultus violentus: post semihoram tumor ibidem oritur ad quantitatem nucismoschatæ, qui sensim sit durus, & tandem niger.
An abstract of a letter from Mr. J. Flamsteed, Math. reg. & F. of the R. S. giving an account of the eclipses of satellits, anno 1686; and containing a table of the parallaxes of orb, and an ephemeris of geocentric places for the same year
Authors: Flamsteed John
Published: December 2006

Sir
, I Give you here the Eclipses of
Jupiters Satellits
for the next year 1686, deducted from the same numbers by which I calculated those of the year 1684, and 1685, printed in the
Transactions
.
A letter from William Molyneux Esq; to one of the Secretarys of the R. S. concerning the circulation of the blood as seen, by the help of a microscope, in the lacerta aquatica
Authors: Molyneux William
Published: December 2006

Our Society lately Received transcripts of two of D
r
Gardens
Letters, the first dated Form
Aberdeen
July 17-1685. to D
r
Middleton
; the other Sept. 4. 1685. to D
r
Plot
.
Part of a letter from Dr. Nath. Vincent. F. of the R. S. concerning Dr. Papin’s way of raising water
Authors: Vincent Nathaniel
Published: December 2006

I Have inquired into Dr.
Papins
Problematic Engine for raising Water, in the
Transaction
of July 1685, and do Conclude it may be solved after this manner.
A remarkable account of a liver, appearing glandulous to the eye; communicated by M
r
. John Brown, Chirurgeon of S
t
Thomas's Hospitall in Southwark; in a letter to one of the Secretarys of the Royal Society
Authors: Brown John
Published: December 2006

Sir, I send you here the figure of the
Liver
of an Hydropical Person, a Patient of our
Hospitall
, (as it was accurately taken by M
r
.
Faithorn
,) which I thought socurious as to be worthy the notice of the
Royal Society
, and therefore have presumed to communicate it to you.
Two extracts of the journall of the Phil. Soc. of Oxford; one containing a paper, communicated March 31, 1685, by the Reverend Dr. Wallis, President of that Soc. concerning the strength of memory when applied with due attention: the other, dated Dec. 15th, 1685, describing a large stone voided by way of urine
Authors: Wallis
Published: December 2006

Upon Occasion of a Discourse, at a meeting of the
Philosophical Society
at
Oxford
(
March
24,1685,) concerning the Advantage which those may have (as to Memory and the Application thereof,) who want their Sight; Dr
Wallis
confirmed it by this consideration, That even we, that have our Ey-fight, can yet with more advantage apply our memory (in matters of intent consideration) by Night, in the Dark, when all things are Quiet; than by Day, when fights and Noises are apt to divert our Thoughts.
II. Problema florentinnm, de mira templi testudine quadrabili
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Libet hic subjungere, Problema quoddam (interventu Clarissimi Viri
D. Guilielmi Bridgman
) ad me transmissum, de mira cujusdam Templi Testudine Quadrabili, meamque ejusdem Solutionem, cum subjuncto Scholio eam explicante.
Clarissimo viro, D. Guilielmo Pontio, Angliee bridgeman, Johannes Wallis. S
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Accepi, Vir Clarissime, nudius tertius (nostu decubiturus) Literas tuas pridie datas Londini (Augusti 30. sera nocte;) quibus heri non vacabat, alias occupato, respondere: Eisque inclusam Chartulam, typis impressam, cui asscriptus est dies 4 April 1692.
II. An account of the Honourable Robert Boyle's way of examining waters as to freshness and saltness
Authors: Boyle Robert
Published: December 2006

Having, since the Publication of the foregoing Letter, been commanded by the King, to show His Majesty an Experiment of the way herein mention'd, to examine the Freshness and Saltness of Waters.
III. Three queries relating to shells
Authors: Dale Samuel , Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

The Queries. There are three things among
Shells
, in which I would be glad of Dr.
Lister
's Assistance, which if you can procure, will be a great Favour, and desire it may be done as soon as possible.
I. Some further considerations on the Breslaw bills of mortality
Authors: Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

Sir, What I gave you in my former discourse on these Bills, was chiefly designed for the Computation of the Values of Annuities on Lives, wherein I believe I have performed what the short Period of my Observations would permit, in relation to exactness, but at the same time do earnestly desire, that their Learned Author Dr.
Newman
of
Breslaw
would please to continue them after the same manner for yet some years further, that so the casual Irregularities and apparent Discordance in the Table,
p
. 599. may by a certain number of Chances be rectified and ascertain'd.
II. Two letters concerning several copper mines, in answer to some queries proposed by Dr. Lister, S. R. S. who communicated them to the publisher
Authors: Lister Martin , Davies David
Published: December 2006

Sir, According to your desire I have given you an Answer to the Questions about the Copper Mines to the belt of my knowledge, which are as followeth.
V. The description of the American tomineius, or humming bird
Authors: Grew Nehemiah
Published: December 2006

There is in most parts of
America
a Bird called by the
English
the
Hum Bird
, by the
Spaniard Tomineius
.
I. A letter from Mr. F. A. Esq; R. S. S. to the publisher, with a paper of Mr. S. Flowers containing the exact draughts of several unknown characters, taken from the the ruines at Persepolis.
Authors: Aston Francis , Flowers S.
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Here send you some Fragments of Papers put into my hands by a very good Friend, relating to antique and obscure inscriptions, which were retrieved after the Death of Mr. Flower, Agnet in Persia for our East-India Company; who, while he was a Merchant at Aleppo, had taken up a Resolution to procure some Draught or Representation of the admired Ruines at Chilmenar, pursuant to the third Enquiry for Persia Mention's in the Philosophical Transactions, pag. 420. viz.
VIII. A proposal concerning the parallax of the fixed stars, in reference to the earths annual orb. In several letters of May the 2d, June 29. and July 20. 1693. from Dr. John Wallis to William Molineux Esq;
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Am obliged to you for two Books which you have been pleased to send me, that of your
Sciothericum Telescopicum
, and that of
Dioptricks
; which you have performed so well, that I have not been better satisfied with any that I have seen of that Subject.
III. An account of the probable causes of the pain in rheumatisms; as also of the cure of a total suppression of urine, not caused by a stone, by the use of acids; as communi­cated by Dr. Edward Baynard, Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians, London
Authors: Baynard Edward
Published: December 2006

This Ingenious Physician was always of the Opinion that the Pains in a Rheumatism were not caused from any Saline or Acid Particles in the Blood,
& c
.
IV. A most compendious and facile method for constructing the logarithms, exemplified and demonstrated from the nature of numbers, without any regards to the hyperbola, with a speedy method for finding the number from the logarithm given
Authors: Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

The invention of the logarithms is justly esteemed one of the most useful discoveries in the art of numbers, and accordingly has had an universal reception and applause;
III. An extract of a letter from the Reverend Dr. John Wallis to Richard Waller, Esq; Secretary to the Royal Society, concerning the spaces in the cycloid, which are perfectly quadrable.
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Sir, I find it is thought by most, that there is no other part of the Semicycloid Figure (adjacent to the Curve) that is capable of being Geometrically Squared, but these two, viz.
An easie demonstration of the analogy of the logarithmick tangents to the meridian line or sum of the secants: with various methods for computing the same to the utmost exactness, by E. Halley
Authors: Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

It is now near 100 Years since our Worthy Countryman Mr.
Edward Wright
published his
Correction of Errors in Navigation
, a Book well deserving the perusal of all such as design to use the Sea.
II. A letter from Sir William Beeston, Governour of Jamaica, to Mr. Charles Bernard, containing some observations about the barometer, and of a hot bath in that island
Authors: Beeston William
Published: December 2006

Sir, By the
Ruby
Man of War, in
December
last, I gave you the best Account I could of the Comet that appeared here in
October
; but the Weather at that time was often Cloudy: I had no Instruments nor Celestial Globe, and am not perfectly acquainted with the Southern Constellations; for which Reasons the Relation I was but indifferent.
VI. Account of a book. - Catelogus plantarum quæ in insula Jamaica sponte proveniunt vel vulgo coluntur, cum earundem synonymis & locis natalibus; adjectis aliis quibusdam quæ in insulis maderæ, barbatos, nieves, & sancti christophori nascuntur, seu prodromi historiæ naturalis Jamaicæ pars prima. Autore Hans Sloane M. D. Coll. reg. Med. Lond. nec non Soc. Reg. Lond. Soc. Londini Impensis Dan. Brown ad Insigne Cygni, & Biblioram extra portam vulgo dictam temple-bar, 1696. in 8°
Authors: Ray John
Published: December 2006

with some remarks on it by John Ray, A. M & F. R. S.
VI. Part of a letter from Mr. Halley at Chester, October 26th, 1696. giving an account of an animal resembling a whelp voided per anum, by a male greyhound, and of a Roman Altar found there, &c
Authors: Halley
Published: December 2006

The Account the Society had from Dr.
Wallis
about a Year since of a Greyhound Dog, that voided an Animal, resembling a Whelp per
anum
, as strange and incredible and incredible as it many seem, is yet here stedfastly believed;
VI. Account of books. - IX. These are the titles of some late books of Dr. Lister, not accounted for in the transactions, and of which mention is made in one of the letters
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

Martini Lister
Exercitation Anatomica in qua de Cochlesis maxime Terrestribus, & Limacibus, Agitur, Omnium Dissections tabulis æneis, ad ipsas res affabrè incisis illustrantur, in Octavo Londini
, 1694.
I. An anatomical account of some remarkable things, found on the dissection of a woman, who dyed of the dropsie, after the paracentesis was performed, with a small reflection on the causes of the dropsie
Authors: Preston Charles
Published: December 2006

Being called to the Dissection of Madam
Vaillant
, the Chirurgeon one
Du Linier
, Operator to Monsieur
Du Verny
;
VI. Account of a book. - The antiquities of Palmyra alias Tadmor; built by King Soloman in the desart of Arabia: Containing the history of that city and its emperors, from its foundation to this present time. By Ab. Seller. 8˚
Authors: Seller Ab.
Published: December 2006

The
Royal Society
, having Publisht Two Journals of the
English
Merchants to
Tadmur
, in the Desart, the Author of the
Palmyrene
Antiquities under took to give the History of the City, from its Foundation to this present Age.
II. An account of the nature and differences of the juices, more particularly, of our English vegetables
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

Sir, These were some Papers, which belong'd to a Treatise of Vegetation; they were most of them made about Thirty Tears ago; but as I cannot now attend the finishing of them, so l would not lose them; and therefore recommend them to your Care, such as they are.
I. The history of a tumor in the lower part of the belly, related by Mr. Giles, sworn surgeon at St. Come ; being the second art. of the second journal of Brunet's Progress de la Medicine.
Authors: Giles Mr.
Published: December 2006

In the year 1689, Madam — about sixty four years old, had a tumor in the lower region of the belly, hard, round, and as big as a ball, such as the boys play with. They mov'd this globe in the same manner as they do the matrix, when it is big with a child, of six or seven months old ;
II. Account of a not yet described scolopendra marina, by Thomas Molyneux, M. D. S. R. S. Communicated by Mr. Locke
Authors: Molyneux Thomas
Published: December 2006

I Have lately met with a remarkable Marine Animal, which I take to be one of the many
Non-Descripts
, that the Sea, by reason of its vast Extent and profound Depth has hitherto Reserved undiscovered, notwithstanding the diligent Searches that have been made by Laborious Naturalists, after these kinds of Productions.
IV. Part of a letter from Fort St. George, in the East-Indies, giving an account of the long Worm which is troublesome to the Inbabitants of those parts, communicated by Dr. Martin Lister, Fell. of Coll. of Phys. & R. S
Authors: George St.
Published: December 2006

On the second of
may
we arrived here, and in a few Days after, the Fruits of my
Gomroon
Journey shewed themselves;
III. Part of a letter from Mr. Antony van Leuwenhoeck, dated Apr. 5. 1697. giving an account of several magnetical experiments; and of one who pretended to cure or cause diseases at a distance, by applying a sympathetick powder to the urine
Authors: Leuwenhoek Anthony Van
Published: December 2006

I have for many Years made divers Observations about the Loadstone, but made no Deductions from them but for some Months last past, having two loadstones, each above a Pound weight, I hung one of them in a Ballance to see if it would dip or bend to an Iron: but though I approach'd the Iron to the Ballance, I could not find that any such dipping happened.
VIII. A note communicated by Mr. Hill, confirming the great age of Henry Jenkins, mentioned No 221. p. 265. of there transactions
Authors: Hill
Published: December 2006

In the Kings Remembrancers Office in the Exchequer, is a record of a deposition in a cause by English Bill, between
Ant. Clark
and
Smirkson
, taken
April
1665, at
Kettering
in
Yorkshire
, where
Henry Jenkins
of
Ellerton
upon
Swale
Labourer Aged 157 Years was produced and deposed as a Witness.
IV. A letter from Mr. Halley at Chester, giving an account of an extraordinary hail in these parts, on the 29th of April last
Authors: Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Promised Sir
John Hoskyns
last Week, to send the Society an Account of a very extraordinary Hail, that sell in these parts on the 29th of
April
last, Since which I have farther enquired into the Circumstances of it, in order to make the Relation as exact as I might.
IX. A letter from Mr. Halley of June the 7th. 97. concerning the Torricellian experiment tryed on the top of Snowdon-hill and the success of it
Authors: Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

Last
Whitson-week
by the favour of Mr.
Davis
, a good Friend of Dr.
Trancred Robinson's
, I had the opportunity of seeing what I pleased in North
Wales
, and was on Wednesday
May
26, on the top of
Snowdon
, Where I tried the
Torricellian
Experiment with all the satisfaction I could with for;
IV. Extract of a letter from Mr. Scarburgh, dated Acomack, July 14. 1694. giving a relation of the effects of a violent storm of the 19th of October, on the rivers of that country. communicated by the Honourable Sir Robert Southwell, F. R. S
Authors: Scarburgh
Published: December 2006

Upon the 19th Day of
October
last happened a most violent Storm, which stopped the Course of ancient Channels, and made some where never were any: So that betwixt the Bounds of
Virginia
and
New-Castle
(in Pensylvania) on the Sea-bord side, are many Navigable Rivers for Sloops and small Vessels.
V. Part of a letter of Mr. Robert Tredwey, to Dr. Leonard Plukenet, dated Jamaica Feb. 12. 1696/7. giving an account of a great piece of ambergriese thrown on that Island; with the opinion of some there about the way of its production
Authors: Tredwey Robert
Published: December 2006

I shall only at present let you know the Account I received from
Ambergriese Ben
, for so the Man is called from the Vast Quantity of that valuable Commodity he found Two Years ago;
Viz
.
II. Particular observations upon different maladies; gathered by Monsieur Gaillard the son, Doctor of Physick, of the Faculty of Tolouse. Taken from the Journal de Savans of the 29th of July, and of the 5th of August, 1697
Authors: Gaillard
Published: December 2006

There was seen there, Twelve Years ago, an Infant who had Two Heads; one was a sort of a Bag, resembling the Hood of a Benedictin Monk, and was fastened to a Neck of the same length with the Neck of the other Head.
IV. Of a venomous scratch with the tooth of a porpos, its symptoms and cure. By Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the College of Physicians and R. S
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

Forte ex Diffectione Delphini, ante dies Tres minimùm mortui, ad modum leviter digitum vulneravi ab internâ parte, at citra Sanguinem, scilicet simplici dentis rasurâ
.
I. Part of two letters of Mr. Thoresby, one to Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians, and Royal Society; Dated leeds, Oct. 30.1697. the other to the Reverend Dr. Tho. Gale, Dean of York, and F. R. S. Dated leeds, Nov. 6.1697. about some Roman antiquities found in Yorkshire
Authors: Thoresby Ralph
Published: December 2006

I Have had pretty good Hap in adding to my Roman Curiosities, Two entire Urns, both of the Blewish Grey Clay, but different Forms, with some of the burnt Bones, and Two other Vessels of the Red Clay the letter of them is almost in the Form of the Roman
Simpulum
or
Guttus
.
II. A letter from Dr. Thomas Molyneux, Fellow of the Royal Society, to the right Reverend St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher; concerning swarms of insects, that of late tears have much infested some parts of the province of Connought in Ireland.
Authors: Molyneux Thomas
Published: December 2006

My Good Lord, Ever since your lordship first spoke to me of the strange Appearance of vast Swarms of a sort of Insects in this Kingdom, that have lately much infested some parts of the Province of Connought, and the great Ravage and Devastation they have wrought in that Country.
II. An account of a Negro-Boy that is dappel'd in several places of his body with white spots
Authors: Byrd William
Published: December 2006

There is now in
England
, in the possession of Captain
Charles Wager
, a Negro-Boy, of about Eleven Years Old, who was born in the upper Parts of
Rappahanock
River, in
Virginia
: His Father and Mother were both perfect Negroes, and Servants to a Gentleman of that country, one Major
Taylor
.
V. Additio ad schedulam de quadraturis
Authors: Craig John
Published: December 2006

In Actis Philosophicis Mensis Septembris, pag. 708. duo exhibui Theoremata ad Figurarum Geometricè irrationalium Quadraturas spectantia: utq; Lectori facilior sit aditus ad hæe & similia invenienda, tertium jam subjungo Theorema, plura (si opus fuerit) postea exhibiturus.
V. A letter from Dr. Geo. Garden, dated Aberdeen, Dec. 8. 1686. concerning caterpillars that destroy fruit
Authors: Garden George
Published: December 2006

I Had Occasion some Years ago to discover the true Origine of the small Catterpillar, which infests the Blossoms of Pears and Apples, and destroys the Fruit.
III. Part of a letter from Mr. Stephen Gray, about a way of measuring the heighth of the mercury in the barometer more exactly
Authors: Gray Stephen
Published: December 2006

Since I saw Mr.
Derham's
Contrivance for measuring the Minute Variations of the Mercury in the Barometer, I have had some Thoughts on that Subject:
VII. An account of one Edmund Melloon, born at port Leicester, in Ireland, who was of an extraordinary size
Authors: Musgrave William
Published: December 2006

The Measures of some of the Parts of an Irish Man shewn at
Oxford
, was communicated to me by Dr.
Plot
,
VIII. An account of the dissection of a dog that had Mercury injected into one of the jugulars
Authors: Pitt Christopher
Published: December 2006

The Mercury was thrown out of the Blood into the Cavity of the Abdomen, as likewise some Appearance of it in the other Cavities of the Body.
X. A method of extracting the root of an infinite equation
Authors: Moivre Abraham De
Published: December 2006

For the understanding of this Series, and in order to continue it as far as we please; it is to be observed, 1. That every Capital Letters is equal to the Coefficient of each preceding Term; thus the Letter
B
is equal to the Coefficient
b-bAA
/
a
.
III. Epistola scripta à Raymundo Vieussens Doctore medico Monspeliensi ad clarissimos virus societatis regiæ Londinensis, de sagnine humano
Authors: Vieussens Raymond
Published: December 2006

Viri Clarissimi, Cum mihi Rex ob edita in Lucem opera quædam medica pensionem annuam Librarum mille ad vitam die vigesima tertia Mensis Septembris Anni 1688. liberaliter concessisset, egoque tanto beneficio vehementer, ut par erat, commotus essem, nihil mihi prætermittendum esse existimavi, ut ne principis omnium maximifavore, atque gratiâ indignus videri possem.
II. A letter of Dr. John Wallis to Samuel Pepys Esquire, relating to some supposed imperfections in an Organ
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Mr.
Harris
an Organ-maker (whom I find, by the little discourse I had with him, to be very well skilled in his profession) was lately with me, as by direction from you, to ask my opinion about perfecting an Organ, in a point wherein he thinks it yet Imperfect.
V. An account of some effects of papaver corniculatum luteum, &c
Authors: Newton Isaac
Published: December 2006

In my Itinerary from
London
to and
Margaret Island
, and thence most by the Sea Shoar to the Lands End in
Cornwall
, to observe what Plants each Part produced, between
Pensants
and
Marketjew
, on the Sandy Shoar, there growing abundance of
papaver Corniculatum Luteum
, or Horned Poppy, with a Yellow Flower, vulgarly I called in
Hampshire
and
Dorsetshire
,
Squatmore
, or
Bruseroot
, (as I was there informed) where they use it against Bruises external and internal:
VII. Part of a letter written by Roelof Diodati, supream director of the council of Mauricius; to Mr. Witsen, Burger Master of Amsterdam, and F. R. S. Dated August 8. 1697. Concerning an extraordinary inundation in that Island
Authors: Diodati Roelof
Published: December 2006

We cannot but give your Worship notice, that on the 22th of
March
last, at half an Hour after Twelve a Clock, being Calm but a litte Rainy Weather, the River which passeth by the plain Ground of
Noord-wyck
, did, in the space of a quarter of an Hour, swell to that Height, that the Sugar-Mill, the Sugar-Work, and almost all the said Ground was thereby ruin'd, the most part of the Sugar-Canes being rooted or torn out of the Ground by the Violence of the Torrent.