Volume 1 (1665) | Philosophical Transactions Archive

Front Matter

Anonymous (5 pages)

Epistle Dedicatory

Henry Oldenburg (3 pages)

The Introduction

Anonymous (3 pages)

An Accompt of the Improvement of Optick Glasses

Anonymous (3 pages)

A Spot in One of the Belts of Jupiter

Anonymous (2 pages)

The Motion of the Late Comet Praedicted

Anonymous (7 pages)

An Experimental History of Cold

Anonymous (3 pages)

An Account of a Very Odd Monstrous Calf

Robert Boyle (2 pages)

Of a Peculiar Lead-Ore of Germany, and the Use Thereof

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of an Hungarian Bolus, of the Same Effect with the Bolus Armenus

Anonymous (2 pages)

Of the New American Whale-Fishing about the Bermudas

Anonymous (4 pages)

A Narrative Concerning the Success of Pendulum-Watches at Sea for the Longitudes

Anonymous (4 pages)

The Character, Lately Published beyond the Seas, of an Eminent Person, not Long Since Dead at Tholouse, Where He Was a Councellor of Parliament

Anonymous (3 pages)

Extract of a Letter, Lately Written from Rome, Touching the Late Comet, and a New One

Anonymous (3 pages)

Extract of a Letter, Written from Paris, Containing Some Reflections on Part of the Precedent Roman Letter

Anonymous (4 pages)

An Observation Imparted to the Noble Mr. Boyle, by Mr. David Thomas, Touching Some Particulars Further Considerable in the Monster Mentioned in the First Papers of These Philosophical Transactions

David Thomas (3 pages)

Extract of a Letter, Lately Written from Venice, by the Learned Doctor Walter Pope, to the Reverend Dean of Rippon, Doctor John Wilkins, Concerning the Mines of Mercury in Friuli; And a Way of Producing Wind by the Fall of Water

Walter Pope (8 pages)

An Extract of a Letter Containing Some Observations, Made in the Ordering of Silk-Worms, Communicated by That Known Vertuoso, Mr. Dudley Palmer, from the Ingenuous Mr. Edward Digges

Edward Digges, Dudley Palmer (3 pages)

An Account of Micrographia,or the Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies, Made by Magnifying Glasses

Anonymous (7 pages)

Some Observations and Experiments upon May-Dew

Anonymous (5 pages)

The Motion of the Second Comet Predicted, by the Same Gentleman, Who Predicted That of the Former

Anonymous (6 pages)

A Relation of the Advice Given by Monsieur Petit, Intendant of the Fortifications of Normandy. Touching the Conjunction of the Ocean and Mediterranean

Monsieur Petit (4 pages)

Of A Way of Killing Ratle-Snakes

Anonymous (2 pages)

A Relation of Persons Killed with Subterraneous Damps

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of the Mineral of Liege, Yielding Both Brimstone and Vitriol, and the Way of Extracting Them Out of It, Used at Liege

Anonymous (3 pages)

A Further Account of Mr. Boyle's Experimental History of Cold

Mr. Boyle (8 pages)

A Relation of Some Extraordinary Tydes in the West-Isles of Scotland, as It Was Communicated by Sr. Robert Moray

Robert Moray (4 pages)

Monsieur Auzout's Judgment Touching the Apertures of Object-Glasses, and Their Proportions, in Respect of the Several Lengths of Telescopes

Monsieur Auzout (3 pages)

Considerations of Monsieur Auzout upon Mr. Hook's New Instrument for Grinding of Optick-Glasses

Monsieur Auzout (8 pages)

Mr. Hook's Answer to Monsieur Auzout's Considerations, in a Letter to the Publisher of These Transactions

Mr. Hook (7 pages)

Of a Means to Illuminate an Object in What Proportion One Pleaseth; And of the Distances Requisite to Burn Bodies by the Sun

Anonymous (3 pages)

A Further Account,Touching Signor Campani's Book and Performances about Optick-Glasses

Anonymous (7 pages)

Signor Campani's Answer: And Monsieur Auzout's Animadversions Thereon

Signor Campani (4 pages)

An Account of Mr. Richard Lower's Newly Published Vindication of Doctor Willis's Diatriba de Febribus

Richard Lower (3 pages)

A Note Touching a Relation, Inserted in the Last Transactions

Anonymous (2 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

An Account, How Adits & Mines are Wrought at Liege without Air-Shafts, Communicated by Sir Robert Moray

Robert Moray (6 pages)

A Way to Break Easily and Speedily the Hardest Rocks, Communicated by the Same Person, as He Received It from Monsieur Du Son, the Inventor

Robert Moray, Monsieur Du Son (6 pages)

Observables upon a Monstrous Head

Anonymous (4 pages)

Observables in the Body of the Earl of Balcarres

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of the Designed Progress to be Made in the Breeding of Silkworms, and the Making of Silk, in France

Anonymous (6 pages)

Enquiries Concerning Agriculture

Anonymous (5 pages)

Anonymous (2 pages)

An Account of a Not Ordinary Burning Concave, Lately Made at Lyons, and Compared with Several Others Made Formerly

Anonymous (5 pages)

Of Monsieur Hevelius's Promise of Imparting to the World His Invention of Making Optick Glasses; And of the Hopes Given by Monsieur Hugens of Zulichem, to Perform Something of the like Nature; As Also of the Expectations, Conceived of Some Ingenious Persons in England, to Improve Telescopes

Monsieur Hugens, Monsieur Hevelius (3 pages)

An Advertisement of a Way of Making More Lively Counterfaits of Nature in Wax, Then are Extant in Painting: And of a New Kinde of Maps in a Low Relievo; Both Practised in France

Anonymous (3 pages)

Some Anatomical Observations of Milk Found in Veins, Instead of Blood; And of Grass, Found in the Wind-Pipes of Some Animals

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of a Place in England, Where, without Petrifying Water, Wood is Turned into Stone

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of the Nature of a Certain Stone, Found in the Indies, in the Head of a Serpent

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of the Way, Used in the Mogol's Dominions, to Make Saltpetre

Anonymous (3 pages)

An Account of Hevelius His Prodromus Cometicus, Together with Some Animadversions Made upon It by a French Philosopher

Hevelius (16 pages)

Note

Anonymous (2 pages)

Of Monsieur de Sons Progress in Working Parabolar Glasses

Monsieur de Sons (3 pages)

Monsieur Auzout's Speculations of the Changes, Likely to be Discovered in the Earth and Moon, by Their Respective Inhabitants

Monsieur Auzout (5 pages)

The Instance of the Same Person to Mr. Hook, for Communicating His Contrivance of Making, with a Glass of a Sphere of 20 or 40 Foot Diameter, a Telescope Drawing Several Hundred Foot; And His Offer of Recompensing That Secret with Another, Teaching To Measure with a Telescope the Distances of Objects upon the Earth

Monsieur Auzout (4 pages)

An Experiment of a Way of Preparing a Liquor, That Shall Sink into, and Colour the Whole Body of Marble, Causing a Picture, Drawn on a Surface, to Appear Also in the Inmost Parts of the Stone

Anonymous (4 pages)

An Intimation of a Way, Found in Europe to Make China-Dishes

Anonymous (2 pages)

An Account of an Odd Spring in Westphalia, Together with an Information Touching Salt-Springs and the Straining of Salt-Water

Anonymous (3 pages)

An Account of the Rise and Attempts, of a Way to Conveigh Liquors Immediately into the Mass of Blood

Anonymous (4 pages)

An Account of the Tryalls, Made in Italy of Campani's New Optick Glasses

Anonymous (3 pages)

A Further Relation of the Whale-Fishing about the Bermudas, and on the Coast of New-England and New-Netherland

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of a Remarkable Spring, about Paderborn in Germany

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of Some Other Not-Common Springs at Basel and in Alsatia

Anonymous (4 pages)

Of the Richest Salt-Springs in Germany

Anonymous (3 pages)

Some Observations of Swarms of Strange Insects, and the Mischiefs Done by Them

Anonymous (3 pages)

Some Observations of Odde Constitutions of Bodies

Anonymous (3 pages)

A Way of Preserving Ice and Snow by Chaffe

Anonymous (3 pages)

Directions for Sea-Men, Bound for Far Voyages

Anonymous (5 pages)

Some Observations Concerning Jupiter. Of the Shadow of One of His Satellites Seen, by a Telescope Passing Over the Body of Jupiter

Anonymous (4 pages)

Of Some Philosophical and Curious Books, That are Shortly to Come Abroad

Anonymous (3 pages)

An Appendix to the Directions for Seamen, Bound for Far Voyages

Anonymous (7 pages)

Of the Judgement of Some of the English Astronomers, Touching the Difference between Two Learned Men, about an Observation Made of the First of the Two Late Comets

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of a Correspondency,to be Procured,for the Finding Out the True Distance of the Sun and Moon from the Earth,by the Paralax,Observed under (or Neer) the Same Meridian

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of an Observation, not Long Since Made in England, of Saturn

William Ball (4 pages)

A Relation of Some Mercurial Observations, and Their Results

Anonymous (8 pages)

Some Observations of Vipers

Francesco Redi (4 pages)

Anonymous (2 pages)

Observations Continued upon the Barometer, or Rather Ballance of the Air

Anonymous (5 pages)

A Relation Concerning the Late Earthquake Neer Oxford; Together with Some Observations of the Sealed Weatherglass, and the Barometer Both upon That Phaenomenon, and in General

Anonymous (7 pages)

A More Particular Account of Those Observations about Jupiter, That Were Mentioned in Numb. 8

Anonymous (4 pages)

An Account of Some Books, Lately Published

Robert Boyle, Nicolai Stenonis, Regneri de Graeff (7 pages)

A Confirmation of the Former Account Touching the Late Earth-Quake Near Oxford,and the Concomitants Thereof

Mr. Boyle (4 pages)

Some Observations and Directions about the Barometer, Communicated by the Same Hand, to the Author of This Tract

Mr. Boyle (6 pages)

General Heads for a Natural History of a Countrey, Great or Small, Imparted Likewise by Mr. Boyle

Mr. Boyle (5 pages)

An Extract of a Letter, Written from Holland, about Preserving of Ships from Being Worm-Eaten

Anonymous (3 pages)

An Account of a Book, Very Lately Published

Robert Boyle (8 pages)

Some New Observations about the Planet Mars, Communicated Since the Printing of the Former Sheets

Anonymous (2 pages)

A Way of Preserving Birds Taken Out of the Egge, and Other Small Faetus's; Communicated by Mr. Boyle

Mr. Boyle (4 pages)

An Extract of a Letter, Sent Lately to Sir Robert Moray Out of Virginia, Concerning an Unusual Way of Propagating Mulberry Trees There, for the Better Improvement of the Silk-Work; Together with Some Other Particulars, Tending to the Good of That Plantation

Anonymous (3 pages)

A Method, by Which a Glass of a Small Plano-Convex Sphere May be Made to Refract the Rayes of Light to a Focus of a Far Greater Distance, Than is Usual

Anonymous (3 pages)

Observations about Shining Worms in Oysters

Anonymous (5 pages)

Some Observations of the Effects of Touch and Friction

Anonymous (5 pages)

Some Particulars, Communicated from Forraign Parts, Concerning the Permanent Spott in Jupiter; And a Contest between Two Artists about Optick Glasses, &c

Anonymous (3 pages)

An Account of Book

Dr. Sydenham (5 pages)

Anonymous (3 pages)

Certain Problems Touching Some Points of Navigation

Anonymous (5 pages)

A New Contrivance of Wheel-Barometer, Much More Easy to be Prepared, Than That, Which is Described in the Micrography; Imparted by the Author of That Book

Anonymous (4 pages)

An Account of Four Suns, Which Very Lately Appeard in France, and of Two Raine-Bows, Unusually Posited, Seen in the Same Kingdom, Somewhat Longer Agoe

Anonymous (6 pages)

A Relation of an Accident by Thunder and Lightning, at Oxford

Anonymous (6 pages)

An Experiment to Examine, What Figure, and Celerity of Motion Begetteth, or Encreaseth Light and Flame

Anonymous (4 pages)

Some Considerations Touching a Letter in the Journal des Scavans of May 24. 1666

Anonymous (4 pages)

An Account of a New Kind of Baroscope, Which May be Called Statical; And of Some Advantages and Conveniencies It Hath above the Mercurial: Communicated, Some While Since, by the Honourable Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle (10 pages)

The Particulars. Of Those Observations of the Planet Mars, Formerly Intimated to Have Been Made at London in the Months of February and March A. 1665/6

Anonymous (5 pages)

Observations Made in Italy, Confirming the Former, and Withall Fixing the Period of the Revolution of Mars

Anonymous (6 pages)

Some Observations Lately Made at London Concerning the Planet Jupiter

Mr. Hook (5 pages)

A Relation of a Sad Effect of Thunder and Lightning

Anonymous (3 pages)

Of Some Books Lately Publish't

John Smith, Mons. Thevenot, Thoma Hobbes, Monsieur dela Chambre (9 pages)

A New Frigorifick 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 the Year

Anonymous (8 pages)

An Account of Two Books

John Rose (3 pages)

An Essay of Dr. John Wallis, Exhibiting His Hypothesis about the Flux and Reflux of the Sea, Taken from the Consideration of the Common Center of Gravity of the Earth and Moon; Together with an Appendix of the Same, Containing an Answer to Some Objections, Made by Severall Persons against That Hypothesis

John Wallis (21 pages)

An Appendix, Written by Way of Letter to the Publisher; Being an Answer to Some Objections, Made by Several Persons, to the Precedent Discourse

Anonymous (10 pages)

An Account of a Book

Dr. Wallis (7 pages)

Observations Made in Several Places, of the Late Eclipse of the Sun, Which Hapned on the 22 of June, 1666

Anonymous (4 pages)

Some Inquiries and Directions Concerning Tides, Proposed by Dr. Wallis, for the Proving or Disproving of His Lately Publish't Discourse Concerning Them

Dr. Wallis (3 pages)

Considerations and Enquiries Concerning Tides, by Sir Robert Moray; Likewise for a Further Search into Dr. Wallis's Newly Publish't Hypothesis

Robert Moray (5 pages)

An Account of Several Books

Johannis Hevelii, Isaacus Vossius, M. de Cordemoy (11 pages)

Anonymous (2 pages)

Patternes of the Tables Proposed to be Made for Observing of Tides, Promised in the Next Foregoing Transactions; By Sr. Rob. Moray

Rob. Moray (7 pages)

Other Inquiries Concerning the Sea

Robert Boyle (3 pages)

Some Considerations Concerning the Parenchymous Parts of the Body

Anonymous (6 pages)

Observables Touching Petrification

Anonymous (3 pages)

A Relation of a Kind of Worms, That Eat Out Stones

Anonymous (4 pages)

Some Promiscuous Observations, Made in Somerset-Shire, and Imparted by the Above-Mention'd Dr. Beale

Dr. Beale (2 pages)

A Problem for Finding the Year of the Julian Period by a New and Very Easie Method

Anonymous (2 pages)

An Account of Some Books

Honorati Fabri, Samuele Parkero, M. de Bourges (6 pages)

An Addition to the Instances of Petrification, Enumerated in the Last of These Papers

Anonymous (3 pages)

Articles of Inquiries Touching Mines

Anonymous (15 pages)

Promiscuous Inquiries, Chiefly about Cold, Formerly Sent and Recommended to Monsieur Heuelius; Together with His Answer Return'd to Some of Them

Anonymous (10 pages)

The Success of the Experiment of Transfusing the Bloud of One Animal into Another

Anonymous (2 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

The Method Observed in Transfusing the Bloud out of One Animal into Another

Anonymous (7 pages)

An Account of Some Sanative Waters in Herefordshire

Anonymous (3 pages)

A Farther Accompt of the Vitriolate-Water, Mention'd Num. 18 p. 323. Together with Some Other Particulars Touching Waters

Anonymous (3 pages)

Inquiries for Turky

Anonymous (4 pages)

An Observation of Optick Glasses, Made of Rock-Crystal

Anonymous (2 pages)

An Accompt of the Use of the Grain of Kermes for Coloration

Anonymous (3 pages)

An Account of Some Books Lately Published

Guarini, Christophoro Merret, Laurentium Bellini (5 pages)

Correction

Anonymous (2 pages)

Monsieur Hevelius's Calculation of the Late Solar Eclipse's Quantity, Duration, & c c

Monsieur Hevelius (6 pages)

The Figure of the Stars in the Constellation of Cygnus; Together with the New Star in It, Discover'd Some Years Since, and Very Lately Seen by, M. Hevelius Again

M. Hevelius (2 pages)

An Extract of a Letter Written Decemb. 28. 1666. By M. Auzout to the Publisher, Concerning a Way of His, for Taking the Diameters of the Planets, and for Knowing the Parallax of the Moon; as Also the Reason, Why in the Solar Eclipse above Calculated, the Diameter of the Moon Did Increase about the End

M. Auzout (4 pages)

A Relation of the Loss of the Way to Prepare the Bononian Stone for Shining

Anonymous (2 pages)

A Description of a Swedish Stone, Which Affords Sulphur, Vitriol, Allum, and Minium

Anonymous (3 pages)

A Relation of the Raining of Ashes, in the Archipelago, upon the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Some Years Ago

Anonymous (2 pages)

An Extract of a Letter not Long Since Written from Rome, Rectifying the Relation of Salamanders Living in Fire

Anonymous (3 pages)

An Account of Several Engagements for Observing of Tydes

Anonymous (3 pages)

Some Suggestions for Remedies against Cold

Anonymous (3 pages)

A Relation of an Uncommon Accident in Two Aged Persons

Mr. Colepresse (3 pages)

An Account of Two Books

Monsieur Felibien, Ismaelis Bullialdi (5 pages)

Tryals Proposed by Mr. Boyle to Dr. Lower, to be Made by Him, for the Improvement of Transfusing Blood out of One Live Animal into Another; Promised Numb. 20. p. 357

Mr. Boyle (5 pages)

A Method for Observing the Eclipses of the Moon, Free from the Common Inconveniencies, as It Was Left by the Learned Mr. Rook, Late Gresham-Professor of Geometry

Mr. Rook (4 pages)

An Account of Some Observations, Lately Made in Spain, by His Excellency the Earl of Sandwich

Earl of Sandwich (3 pages)

Extract of a Letter, Lately Written by Mr. Nathaniel Fairfax to the Publisher, Containing Observations about Some Insects, and Their Inoxiousness, &c

Nathaniel Fairfax (3 pages)

An Account of Some Books

Johanne Bapt. Riccioli, M. Descartes, Gerardi Blasii (7 pages)

Anonymous (2 pages)

Note

Anonymous (2 pages)

Note

Anonymous (3 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

Back Matter

Anonymous (10 pages)