Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World

32. Whether the Vein run or lye Horizontal, or dippe? And if it dippe, what _inclination_ it hath, how deep the lowest part lies; and consequently how much deeper than the upper...

The _Parenchymous_ parts of the Body, are by _Anatomists_ generally supposed to be in very many places wholly _void of Vessels_; designed chiefly to fill up Cavities and interst...

And _First_, if the ground, on which I went in framing this _Baroscope_, be demanded, the answer in short may be; 1. That, though the Glass-buble, and the Glass-counterpoise, at...

What is added, of the Manner of planting the _Sets_; of Dressing, Pruning, and Governing the Plantation; of the Ordering and Cultivating the Vine-yard after the first four years...

_A new Experiment, shewing, How a considerable degree of Cold may be suddenly produced without the help of _Snow_, _Ice_, _Haile_, _Wind_, or _Niter_, and that at any time of th...

20. Whether pieces of Iron and Steel, even thick ones, be made britle by intense frosts; and therefore Smiths are obliged for prevention, to give their Iron and Steel-tools a so...

8. Generally also it falls in great winds; and somewhat it seem'd to sink, when I open'd a wide door to it, to let in stormy winds; yet I have found it to continue very high, in...

_Some Observations and Experiments upon _May-dew_. The Motion of the _Second Comet_ predicted, by the same person, who predicted that of the former. A Relation of the Advice, gi...

11. And to evince, that they are mistaken in these Observations of theirs; he alledges, That they assure that the Spots, which they have seen in this Planet, (by an _Eustachian_...

2. To the second objection; _That, at Chatham and in the Thames, the Annual Spring-tydes, happen about the Æquinoxes; not (as this Hypothesis doth suppose elsewhere to have been...

The time of the year invites me to intimate to you, that among the other Uses of the Experiment, I long since presented the _Society_, of preserving Whelps taken out of the Dams...

The mines of _Mercury_ in _Friuli_, a Territory belonging to the _Venetians_, are about a days Journey and a half distant from _Goritia_ Northwards, at a place call'd _Idria_, s...

Multiply the _Solar_ Cycle by 4845. and the _Lunar_, by 4200. and that of the _Indiction_, by 6916. Then divide the Sum of the Products by 7980. which is the _Julian Period_: Th...

_An Account of a not ordinary _Burning Concave_, lately made at _Lyons_, and compared with several others made formerly. Of Monsieur _Hevelius_ his promise of communicating to t...

This being what I observed out of my _Register_ of these Instruments, (which, if I had then thought of an Earthquake, I {169} should have more nicely watched) what I have furthe...

Besides that Transient Shadow last mentioned, there hath been observed, by Monsieur _Cassini_, a permanent Spot in the Disque of _Jupiter_; by the help whereof, he hath been abl...

_An Account of the Tryals, made in _Italy_ of _Campani's_ new Optick Glasses. A further relation of the Whale-fishing about the _Bermudas_, and upon the Coast of _New England_,...

He that was dead (when by putting into a warm Bed, and rubbing, and putting strong waters into his Mouth, &c. no life could be brought into him) was the next morning brought to...

In the _Third Section_, he treats of _Intermittent_ Feavers, or of _Agues_: Where he discourses of the times of the _Cold_ and _Hot_ fits, and of _that_ of the _Separation_ of t...

In a Coal-pit, belonging to the Lord _Sinclair_ in _Scotland_, where the Coal is some 18 or 20 foot thick, and antiently wasted to a great depth: The Colliers, some Weeks agoe,...

This double _Wedge_, being 12. or 13. Inches long, each piece of it, and so made, as being placed in their due position they may make up a _Cylinder_, but _Diagonal_-wise. The t...

Now supposing A B C D E to be a part of the great Orb of the _Annual_ motion, described by the Common Center of Gravity, in so long time as from a _Full-Moon_ at A to the next _...

And because if the Hole, by which the water is let into the Pump, be as large as the Bore of the Pump it self, the weight that is raised by the water, will rise and fall with an...

The other _Epistle_, contains some Ingenious Observations, touching the way, by which the Chicken, yet in the shell, is nourish't, _videl._ not by the conveyance of the _Yolk_ i...

Since what was mentioned in the immediately precedent _Tract_, touching Monsieur _de Son's_ noble attempt of grinding Glasses of a _Parabolical_ Figure, the _Publisher_ of these...

_So far this Letter;_ the prescriptions whereof having been carefully observ'd by those who were imployed to make the Experiment, have hitherto been attended with good success;...

_An Account, formerly promised, of Monsieur _Hevelius's_ Calculation of the late _Solar Eclipse's_ Quantity, Duration, &c. The Figure of the Star in the Constellation of _Cygnus...

Concerning the Observation of _Jupiter_ and its _satellites_, the famous _Astronomer_ of _Bononia_, _Cassinus_, having {73} published, that on the 30. day of _July_, 1664. at 2½...

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_Joseh Shute_ Clerk, Parson of _Mary_ (nigh _Plymouth_) in the County of _Devon_, aged 81 years, being a temperate man, and of an healthy constitution, having the in-most Grinde...

There was, not long since, sent hither out of _Germany_ from an inquisitive Physician, a List of several _Minerals_ and _Earths_ of that Country, and of _Hungary_, together with...

In the _Fifth_, He treats of the Union of the Body and Soul, and the manner, how they act one upon the other; and esteems it not more difficult to conceive the Action of Spirits...

What he saith here, _Chap._ 8. & 19. (and in his fifth _Dial._ p. 105. &c.) concerning the _Angle of Contact_; amounts but to thus much, That, by the _Angle of Contact_, he doth...

As to _Prognostications_, he somewhat complains, That men do more inquire what Comets _signifie_, then what they _are_, or how they are generated and moved; professing himself t...

Together with my most hearty thanks for the favour you were pleased to do me, in sending me an _Epitome_ of what had been by the ingenious Monsieur _Auzout_ animadverted on a de...

On this occasion, the same Gentleman relates, that once seeing a Spider bruised into a small Glass of Water, and that it tinged {392} it somewhat of a Sky-colour, he was, upon o...

_Secondly_, above the ignobler _Productions_ of the Earth, there must be a careful account given of the _Inhabitants_ themselves, both _Natives_ and _Strangers_, that have been...

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The _Earth_'s Diurnal motion prov'd by the motion of the Comets, 1. 6. & 7. especially by the slow motion of the second Comet, 3. 39. See M. _Auzout_, confirm'd by M. _Hevelius_...