Volume 14 (1684)

Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775)

88 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (17 pages)
• An Account of the City of Prusa in Bithynia, and a Continuation of the Historical Observations Relating to Constantinople, by the Reverend and Learned Tho. Smith D. D. Fellow of Magd. Coll. Oxon. and of the Royal Society
  Tho Smith (25 pages)
• A Letter in Answer to Another of Mr. Hen. Oldenburgh's, Wherein he Desired an Explanation of a Paragraph, Touching the Use of the Intestinum Caecum, Publisht in the Philosoh. Tranfact. Num. 95 Anno 1673
  M. Lyster (6 pages)
• Directions for the Use of the Following Tide Table, Sent by J.F.M.R. & R.S.S. to the publisher
  R. S. S., J. F. M. R. (6 pages)
• A Letter concerning Some Form'd Stones Found at Hunton in Kent, from Griff. Hatley, M. D. of Maidstone in Kent
  Griff Hatley (4 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  Raphaelis Fabretti (4 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Introductory Essay to the Doctrine of Sounds, Containing Some Proposals for the Improvement of Acousticks; As It Was Presented to the Dublin Society Nov. 12. 1683. by the Right Reverend Father in God Narcissus Lord Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin
  Anonymous (20 pages)
• Certain Observations of the Midland Salt-Springs of Worcester-Shire, Stafford-Shire and Cheshire. Of the Grude Salt, Which Grows from the Stone-Powder Dejected by the Said Brines in Boyling. Of the Specifick Difference betwixt Sea Salt and Common Salt. A Way (Which Seems to be the True Method of Nature) of Distilling Sweet and Fresh Water from Sea Water, by the Breath of Sea Plants Growing in It. That This Breath Probably is the Material Cause of the Trade or Tropick Winds. In a Letter to the Publisher from the Learned Martin Lister Dr. of Physick of the University of Oxon
  Martin Lister (8 pages)
• An Account of the Increase of Weight in Oyl of Vitriol Expos'd to the Air
  Anonymous (12 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  P. Filippo Buonanni (4 pages)
• Three Papers of Dr. Martin Lyster, the First of the Nature of Earth-Quakes; More Particularly of the Origine of the Matter of Them, from the Pyrites Alone
  Martin Lyster (5 pages)
• The Second Paper of the Same Person Concerning the Spontaneous Firing of the Pyrites
  Martin Lyster (4 pages)
• The Third Paper of the Same Person, Concerning Thunder and Lightning being from the Pyrites
  Martin Lyster (4 pages)
• A Relation of the Effect of a Thunder Clap on the Compass of a Ship on the Coast of New England
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• A Letter of Sir R. S. concerning the Former Relation. Lond. March 8th. 168
  R. S. (3 pages)
• An Abstract of a Treatise of the Calculus Humanus in Answer to Several Queries Proposed by Sir John Hoskins; By the Learned and Ingenious Fred. Slare M. D. and Fellow of the Royal Society
  Fred. Slare (12 pages)
• A Postscript to the Publisher, Containing a Short Account of Two Human Calculi of Unusual Form and Bigness, from the Same F. S. M. D
  Fred. Slare (6 pages)
• An Account of a Spot Seen in the Sun from the 25th. of April to the 8th. of May Instant, with the Line of Its Course Predicted, If It Make a Second Return, by I. F. Astron. Reg.
  I. F. (7 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of a Polypus Found in the Heart of a Person That Died Epileptical, at Oxon. by W. G. M B. Fellow of Wadham Colledge and of the Royal Society
  W. Gould (17 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  Tho. Baker (3 pages)
• Erratum
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Letter from the Learned and Ingenious Mr. Will. Molyneux Secretary to the Society of Dublin, to Will. Musgrave L. L. B. Fellow of New Colledge, and Secretary to the Philosophical Society of Oxford, for Advancement of Natural Knowledge; Concerning Lough Neagh in Ireland, and Its Petrifying Qualitys
  William Molyneux (4 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Thomas Machel of Kirkbythore in Westmorland to Sr. W. D. March 25, 1684. concerning Some Antiquities Found There
  Thomas Machel (6 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter from the Worshipful John Evelyn Esq; Sent to One of the Secretaries of the R. Society concerning the Dammage Done to His Gardens by the Preceding Winter
  John Evelyn (6 pages)
• 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
  Tho. Smith (4 pages)
• The Longitudes, Latitudes, Right Ascensions, and Declinations of the Chiefest Fixt Stars according to the Best Observers; In a Letter from Mr. Edward Bernard, to the Reverend and Learned Dr. Rob. Huntington Provost of Trinity College near Dublin in Ireland
  Edward Bernard (14 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter from Liege concerning a Strange Preservation of Four Men in a Mine 24 Days without Any Food, April 9. 84
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Extract of a Letter of Mr. Heathcott to Mr. Flamsteed from Cabo Cors Castle on the Coast of Guiney the 14th of December 1683. concerning the Tide on That Coact, Variation of the Needle, etc.
  Mr. Heathcott (2 pages)
• [An Account of Two Books]
  Martin Lister, Monsieur Blondel (10 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Two Remarkable Cases Relating to Vision, Communicated to the Publisher, by the Learned and Ingenious Wil. Briggs M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and Physician of St. Thomas's Hospital, Lond
  William Briggs (8 pages)
• The Description and Use of the Pores in the Skin of the Hands and Feet, by the Learned and Ingenious Nehemiah Grew, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians and of the Royal Society
  Nehemiah Grew (5 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter from Mr. Anthony Leewenhoeck 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
  Anthony Leewenhoeck (10 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. John Collins to the Reverend and Learned Dr. John Wallis Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, Giving His Thoughts about Some Defects in Algebra
  John Collins (11 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Tankred Robinson to Dr. M. L. Aug. 4.1683. Concerning the Bridge at St. Esprit in France
  Tankred Robinson (5 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter from Mr. A. Leevvenhoeck of Delft, Dated Decemb. 28th, 1683. Concerning Scales within the Mouth, the Scaly Child That Was Shewn, the Anatomy of the Slime within the Guts, and the Use thereof
  A. Leevvenhoeck (10 pages)
• Two Letters Formerly Written to Mr. H. O, by Dr. M.L. Ist. concerning Some Very Aged Persons in the North of England. 2d. about the Projection of the Threads of Spiders, of Bees Breeding in Cases Made of Leaves, of a Viviparous Fly, and of Great Numbers of Maggots Observed at the Time of the Plague, A. D. 1666
  M. Lister (8 pages)
• The Description of a Monstrous Child, Born Friday the 29th. of February 1684. at a Village Called Heisagger, Distant about 4 English Miles from Hattersleben, a Town in South- Jutland, under the King of Denmark's Dominion, Communicated by Mr. Christopher Krahe, a Member of the Ecclesiastical Consistory and Provost of all the Churches Belonging to the Said Diocess
  Christopher Krahe (5 pages)
• Praeclarissimo et Eruditissimo Viro D. Jacobo Sponio Medicinae Doctori, et Lugdunensi Anatomico Acuratissimo. Marcellus Malpighius S. P.
  Marcellus Malpighius (9 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Charles Leigh of Brazen-Nose College in Oxford. to Dr. Rob. Plot Director of Experiments to the Philosophical Society of Oxford, and One of the Secretaries of the Royal Society
  Charles Leigh (12 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  Davide Abercromby (3 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Letter from Dublin to the Publisher of these Tracts, concerning the Porphyry Pillars in Egypt
  R. H. (7 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Praeclarissimo et Eruditissimo Viro D. Jacobo Sponio Medicinae Doctori, et Lugdunensi Anatomico Accuratissimo. Marcellus Malpighius S. P.
  Marcellus Malpighius (18 pages)
• A Letter from the Learned and Ingenious Maurice Wheeler M. A. and Rector of Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire, 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
  Maurice Wheeler (15 pages)
• Experiments to be Made Relating to Land-Carriage, Proposed by the Learned Sr. William Petty Kt.
  William Petty (3 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  Christiani Hugenii (4 pages)
• A New and Easy Way of Demonstrating Some Propositions in Euclid by the Learned Mr. ------- Ash. a Member of the Philosophical Society of Dublin for Promoting Natural Knowledge
  Anonymous (7 pages)
• An Account of the Course of the Tides at Tonqueen in a Letter from Mr. Francis Davenport July 15. 1678. with the Theory of Them, at the Barr of Tonqueen, by the Learned Edmund Halley Fellow of the Royal Society
  Edmund Halley (13 pages)
• Defectus Exigui Lunaris Observationes, Grenovici Habitae Junii 16. 1684 p. m. n. Seq. à Johanne Flamsteedio. Math. Reg.
  Johanne Flamsteedio (3 pages)
• Solaris Defectus Observationes Grenovici Habitae Anno 1684. Julii 2. p. m. ab J. F. etc.
  Johanne Flamsteedio (3 pages)
• A Calculation of the Same Eclips, Juxta Tabulas Philolaicas with the Observations of the Learned Bullialdus and Cassini
  Cassini, Bullialdus (2 pages)
• A Discourse Concerning Digestion in a Letter to the Publisher from Mr. Charles Leigh of Brasen-Nose Colledge Oxford
  Charles Leigh (6 pages)
• An Abstract of a Journal of the Philosophical Society of Oxford, being and Account of Some Experiments Relating to Digestion Read before That Society, and of a Large Bed of Glands Observ'd in the Stomach of a Jack
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  Francisco Moncaeio, Robert Boyle, Joh. Dolaei (10 pages)
• A Further Account of the Bridg at Pont St. Esprit, Whereof before, Numb. 160. Together with a Parallel History of Some Other Bridges at Rome: In a Letter from the Ingenious Mr. Tankred Robinson to Dr. Martin Lister
  Tankred Robinson (3 pages)
• A Description of a Bridg That May be Built 70 Foot Long without Any Pillar under It, Taken out of the Journal of the Philosophical Society of Oxford
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• 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 Honfleur and at Pau; By Divers Other Learned Persons
  R. P. Fontenay (7 pages)
• The Observations of the Ancients concerning the Obliquity of the Zodiac, in a Letter of Mr. Edward Bernard to Mr. John Flamsteed Math. Reg.
  Edward Bernard (6 pages)
• An Account of a Salt Spring, and Another Medicinal Spring, on the Banks of the River Weare, or Ware in the Bishoprick of Durham in a Letter to the Publisher, from the Ingenious Mr. Hugh Todd Fellow of University College in Oxon, and Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God ------ Lord Bishop of Carlile
  Hugh Todd (5 pages)
• An Account of 2. Books
  Davide Gregorio (7 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• 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
  Dawbeney Turbervile (4 pages)
• An Ingenious Proposal for a New Sort of Maps of Countrys, together with Tables of Sands and Clays, Such Chiefly as are Found in the North Parts of England, Drawn up about 10 Years Since, and Delivered to the Royal Society Mar. 12. 1683. by the Learned Martin Lister M. D.
  Martin Lister (9 pages)
• Observations of the Solar Eclipse July the 2. 1684. at Oxford, Sent in a Letter from Dr. Edw. Bernard, Astron. Prof. Oxon. to Mr. John Flamsteed, Astron. Reg. At Lisbon by Mr. Jacobs; At Dublin, by Mr. Ash and Mr. Molyneaux; And at Tredagh by Mr. Osburn
  Edw. Bernard (4 pages)
• Casp. Bartholini Thom. F. de Ductu Salivali Hactenus Non Descripto, Observatio Anatomica
  Anonymous (10 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  Richard Waller (3 pages)
• A Letter from the Learned Mr John Flamsteed Astron. Reg. concerning the Eclipses of Jupiters Satellit's for the Year Following 1685. with a Catalogue of Them, and Informations concerning Its Use
  John Flamsteed (7 pages)
• A Discourse Concerning the Effects of the Great Frost, on Trees and Other Plants Anno 1683. Drawn from the Answers to Some Queries Sent into Divers Countries by Dr. Rob. Plot S. R. S. and from Several Observations Made at Oxford, by the Skilful Botanist Mr. Jacob Bobart
  Rob Plot, Jacob Bobart (15 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Anthony Leewenhoeck Fellow of the Royal Society, Dat. Apr. 14. 1684. Containing Observations about the Cristallin Humor of the Eye, etc.
  Anthony Leewenhoeck (12 pages)
• A Discourse concerning the Rising and Falling of the Quicksilver in the Barometer; And What May be Gathered from Its Great Rise in Frosty Weather, as to a Healthy or Sickly Season; Presented the Royal Society March 20. 1683. by the Learned Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the R. S.
  Martin Lister (6 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  Roberto Sibbaldo (5 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter from the Reverend and Learned Dr. John Wallis, to the Publisher Dr. Robert Plot; Concerning Two Very Large Stone ChimneyPieces: With a Peculiar Sort of Arch-Work Thereon
  John Wallis (4 pages)
• Some Queries Whereby to Examine Mineral Waters by the Learned Sir William Petty Knight
  William Petty (3 pages)
• Solutio Philosophica Casus Cujusdam Rarioris à Cl. Domino Doctore Briggs, in Actis Philosophicis Numb. 159. Nuper Editi, de Juvene Uespere Caecutiente
  Doctore Briggs (3 pages)
• A Discourse concerning the Sepulchral Lamps of the Ancients, Shewing the Possibility of Their being Made Divers Waies, Read before the Philosophical Society of Oxford, May the 7. 1684. by Robert Plot LL. D. Director of Experiments to the Said Society
  Robert Plot (7 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. William Musgrave Fellow of New College Oxon: and One of the Secretaries of the Royal Society, to the Learned Dr. Martin Lister, wherein He Endeavors to Prove That the Lacteals Frequently Convey Liquors That are Not White
  William Musgrave (9 pages)
• An Ingenious Retractation of the 7th and Last Paragraph of Mr. William Molyneux's Letter in the Philosophical Transact. Numb. 158. Pag. 554. concerning Lough Neagh Stone and Its Non Application to the Magnet upon Calcination. Being an Abstract of a Letter of the Same Ingenious Gentleman Dated from Dublin Novemb. 25. 1684
  William Molyneux (2 pages)
• Directions for the Use of the Following Tide-Table, Sent by J. F. M. R. & R. S. S. to the Publisher
  J. F. (7 pages)
• An Account of a Sort of Paper Made of Linum Asbestinum Found in Wales in a Letter to the Publisher, from Edward Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Oxon
  Edward Lloyd (3 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  Andreas Morellius, Martin Lister (11 pages)
• An Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (9 pages)