Volume 15 (1685)

Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775)

97 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (19 pages)
• 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 Aegypt: By Dr. Lister, Fellow of the Royal Society
  Dr. Lister (5 pages)
• Letter from Dr. Turbervile of Salisbury Containing Some Considerable Observations in the Practise of Physic
  Dr. Turbervile (3 pages)
• Observations on the Cicindela Volans, or Flying Glow-Worm, with the Figure Thereof Made, and Dsiegned by Richard Waller Esq. F. of the R. S.
  Richard Waller (7 pages)
• A Letter of Mr. John Davis Minister of Little Leak in Notting Hamshire to One of the F. of the R. S. concerning the Wurtemberg Engine Dated 26th. November. 1684
  John Davis (2 pages)
• The Description of a Siphon, Performing the Same Things with the Sipho Wurtemburgicus; Invented by Dr. Papin Fellow of the Royal Society
  Papin Fellow (4 pages)
• A Miscellaneous Catalogue of Mean, Vulgar, Cheap and Simple Experiments. Drawn up by Sr. William Petty, President of the Dublin Society, and by Him Presented to That Society
  William Petty (6 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. J: Beaumont of Stony-Easton in Sommersetshire to One of the S. of the R. S. concerning a New Way of Cleaving Rocks
  J. Beaumont (4 pages)
• A Discourse Proving from Experiments, That the Larger the Wheels of a Coach, etc.are (Caeteris Paribus,) the more Easily they May be Drawn over a Stone or Such Like Obstacle That Lies in the Way: By a Member of the Philosophical Society of Oxford
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• An Extract of the Journall of the Philosophicall Society of Oxford; Giving an Account of a Large Praeternaturall Glandulose Substance, Found between the Heart and Pericardium of an Ox
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Account of Three Books
  Theophili Boneti, Rob. Plot, Johannis Nicolai Pechlini (15 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Letter from William Molyneux Esq. Secretary of the Philosophical Society of Dublin, to a S. of the R. S. Giving an Account of the Connough-Worm
  William Molyneux (6 pages)
• Part of 2 Letters from Mr. Thomas Molyneux concerning a Prodigious Os Frontis in the Medicine School at Leyden. Dec. 29th. 1684. and Febr. 13th 168₅ ⁴
  Thomas Molyneux (3 pages)
• An Account of a Stone Grown to an Iron Bodkin in the Bladder of a Boy: Communicated by Dr. Lister Fellow of the Royal Society
  Dr. Lister (3 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter of Mr. Anthony Leewenhoek Fellow of the R. Society; Concerning the Parts of the Brain of severall Animals; The Chalk Stones of the Gout; The Leprosy; And the Scales of Eeles
  Anthony Leewenhoek (15 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  John Kuncle (20 pages)
• A Remarkable Account of an Hydrophobia, in a Letter from Dr Roger Howman, Physician in Norwich, to William Briggs M. D. Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. Lond. and Physician of St. Tho. Hospitall
  Roger Howman (5 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter from Senior Ciampini, to Dr. Croon, concerning a Late Comet Seen at Rome
  Senior Ciampini (3 pages)
• Some Observations on Boyling Fountains, and Subterraneous Steams: by Dr. Tancred Robinson, Fellow of the R. S.
  Tancred Robinson (5 pages)
• Of the Weight of a Cubic Foot of Diuers Grains, etc. Try'din a Vessel of Wel Season'd Oak, Whose Concaue was an Exact Cubic Foot. By the Direction of the Philosophicall Society of Oxford
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Further List of the Specific Gravitys of Bodys, being in Proportion as the Following Numbers
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• Observations of the Wind, Weather, and Height of the Mercury inthe Barometer, through out the year 1684; Taken in the Musaeum Ashmoleanum at Oxford, by Robert Plot, LLD. to which is Prefixt a Letter from Him, to Dr. Martin Lister, F. of the R. S. concerning the Use of This and Such Like Historys of the Weather
  Robert Plot (21 pages)
• 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 Barrennss
  Dr Peirce (2 pages)
• An Account of Book
  Caroli Drelincurtii (3 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Of the Bogs, and Loughs of Ireland by Mr. William King, Fellow of the Dublin Society, as It was Presented to That Society
  William King (14 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter from Dr Sam. Threapland of Hallifax to Dr Plot of Oxford, Giving an Account of Stones Voided by Siege
  Sam Threapland (5 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter from Mr. Anthony Leewenhoeck F. of the R. S. to a S. of the R. Society, Dated from Delf, January 5th. 1685
  Anthony Leewenhoeck (20 pages)
• Accounts of Three Books
  Lovis Hennepin (8 pages)
• An Account of a Sort of Sugar Made of the Juice of the Maple, in Canada
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Extract of the Journal of the Society at Dublin; Giving an Account of a Periodicall Evacuation of Blood at the End of One of the Fingers
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• A Discourse concerning Weather, etc. By the Learned Dr Garden of Aberdene. Written by Way of Letter, to Mr. Henry Scougall, Professor of Theology in That University; And Communicated to the Phil. Soc. of Oxford, by the Reverend Dr Middleton, Provost of the Kings College in Aberdeen
  Dr Garden, Dr Middleton (12 pages)
• A Discourse concerning the Air's Gravity, Obserudin the Baroscope, Occasioned by That of Dr. Garden; Presented to the Phil. Soc. of Oxford, by the Reverend Dr. Wallis, President of That Society. April, 14, 1685
  Dr. Wallis (14 pages)
• The Description of a Stone of the Bladder, Seen by the Royal Society, Feb. 25th, 1684/5
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Account of an Aqueduct Designd for Carrying the River Eure to Versaille
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of an Old Earthen Vessel, Lately Found Near York
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• 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
  Robert Peirce (4 pages)
• Accounts of Two Books
  Gualteri Charltoni, Davidis Abercrombii (8 pages)
• Part of a Letter from Sr. R. B. to Dr. L. concerning a New Sort of Calesh
  R. B. (3 pages)
• An Account of a Strange Sort of Bees in the West-Indies, Communicated by M. I.
  M. I. (4 pages)
• A Letter from William Molyneux Esq; Sec. of the Dublin Society; To One of the S. of the R. S. concerning a New Hygroscope, Invented by Him
  William Molyneux (6 pages)
• Some Observations on the French Macreuse, and the Scotch Bernacle; Together with a Continuation of the Account of Boyling, and Other Fountains. By Dr. Tancred Robinson Fellow of the Royal Society
  Tancred Robinson (6 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Ray, Fellow of the R. S. to Dr. Robinson; Concerning the French Macreuse
  John Ray (5 pages)
• Epistola Clariss. Viri Dni. Gulielmi Cole Med. Doct. ad Honoratissimum Dum. Dum. Rob. Boyl Armigerum, de Falsa Graviditate
  Gulielmus Cole (5 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Nich. Waite Merchant of London, to Dr. Rob. Plot; Concerning Some Incombustible Cloth, Lately Exposed to the Fire before the Royal Society
  Nich. Waite (5 pages)
• A Discourse concerning the Incombustible Cloth above Mentioned; Address't in a Letter to Mr. Arthur Bayly Merchant, and Fellow of the R. Society; and to Mr. Nicholas Waite, Merchant of London; By Rob. Plot. LL. D.
  Rob. Plot (13 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  Robert Boyle (5 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Phaenomena in Cadauere PraeNobilis Cujusdam FaeMinae, Apoplexia Peremptae, Inter Diβecandum, Maii 12, 1679, à Clariss. Medico Dno. Dre. Cole Observata
  Cole (6 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter from Mr. Leewenhoeck, to the R. S. Dated Jan. 23d, 1684/5; Concerning the the Various Figures of the Salts Contained in Several Substances
  Mr. Leewenhoeck (21 pages)
• An Account of Some Experiments for Trying the Force of Great Guns, by the Learned Mr. Greaves; Communicated by Mr. Stubbs
  Mr. Stubbs, Mr. Greaves (4 pages)
• A New Way of Raising Water; By Dr. Papin, Fellow of the Royal Society
  Dr. Papin (5 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  Georgio Entio, John Wallis (13 pages)
• An Answer to Some Quaeries Proposed by Mr. William Molyneux, concerning Lough-Neagh: By Mr. Edward Smyth, Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Dublin
  Edward Smyth (6 pages)
• Historiae Convulsionum Periodicarum per Clariss. Dnum Gui. Cole, Med. Doct. Descriptae, et Communicatae
  Gui. Cole (4 pages)
• Historia Convulsivi Affectus Octonariam Periodum à Multis Annis Observantis, Per Clariss. Dnum. Gui. Cole, M. D. Descripta et Communicata
  Gui. Cole (6 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter of Mr. Leeuwenhoeck Fellow of the R. Society, Dated March 30th. 1685. to the R. S. concerning Generation by an Infect
  Mr. Leeuwenhoeck (20 pages)
• A Discourse on the Diffection of a Monstrous Double Catt; Read before the Dublin Society by Dr. Mullen
  Dr. Mullen (10 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  Michaelis Ettmulleri, Raymundi Vieussens (8 pages)
• Extracts of Two Letters, Written by Dr. Garden of Aberdeen; One concerning the Causes of Several Winds, etc. to Dr. Plot: The Other concerning the Proboscis of Bees; etc. to Dr. Middleton
  George Garden (12 pages)
• The Figures of Some Antiquities; Communicated by a Member of the Royal Society
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• A Letter of Dr Lister's to Mr Ray, concerning Some Particulars That Might be Added to the Ornithology
  M. Lister (5 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter from the Learned Dr. Cole Physician at Worcester, Dated May the 13th. 1685, concerning Stones Voided Per Penem
  Dr. Cole (3 pages)
• Accounts of Three Books
  Walter Harris, Jo. Chrift Sturmium, Johannis Hevelii, Nicholas Lemery (27 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Historical Account of a strangely Self-Moving Liquor. by the Honorable Robert Boyl, Fellow of the Royal Society
  Robert Boyl (6 pages)
• A Letter from the Reverend Dr Wallis, Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal Society, London, to Mr. Richard Norris, concerning the Collection of Secants; And the True Division of the Meridians in the Sea-Chart
  Dr Wallis (14 pages)
• An Explanation of the Figures of Several Antiquities, Communicated by a Member of the Royal Society
  Anonymous (7 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. St Georg Ash, Sec. of the Dublin Society, to One of the Secretaries of the Royal Society; Concerning a Girl in Ireland, who Has Several Horns Growing on Her Body
  George Ashe (4 pages)
• Historia Ulceris in Inguine Dextro, Intectinorum Faeces Emittentis; À Dno. Gui: Earnshaw, Medico Alcestrensi, Descripta et Communicata
  Gui Earnshaw (3 pages)
• Part of a Letter Containing a Farther Account of the Aqueduct Near Versailles, etc.
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  Frederici Hoffmanni Fred (4 pages)
• Some Remarkable Effects of a Great Storm of Thunder and Lightning at Portsmouth Oct. 23. 85
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Severall Observations of the Respect of the Needle to a Piece of Iron Held Perpendicular; Made by a Master of a Ship Crossing the Aequinoctial Line, Anno 1684. and Communicated by Mr. Arthur Bayly. F. of the R. S.
  Arthur Bayly (3 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter from Mr. J. Flamsteed, Math. Reg. et F. of the R. S. Giving an Account of the Eclipses of 4^s Satellits, Anno 1686; and Containing a Table of the Parallaxes of 4^s Orb, and an Ephemeris of 4^s Geocentric Places for the Same Year
  J. Flamsteed (12 pages)
• A Correct Tide Table, Shewing the True Times of the High-Waters at London-Bridge, to Every Day in the Year, 1684, By J. Flamsteed Math. Reg. & R. S. S.
  J. Flamsteed (6 pages)
• The Solutions of Three Chorographic Problems, by a Member of the Philosophical Society of Oxford
  Anonymous (8 pages)
• 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
  William Molyneux (5 pages)
• Part of a Letter from Dr. Nath. Vincent. F. of the R. S. concerning Dr Papin's Way of Raising Water
  Nath. Vincent (3 pages)
• A Letter of Mr. R. A. Relating to the Same Subject
  R. A. (2 pages)
• Observations of Dr Papin, Fellow of the Royal Society, on a French Paper concerning a Perpetual Motion
  Dr Papin (4 pages)
• An Account of 4 Books
  Jo. Franco, Theatro Seldonio, Ant. Nuck, Jo. Con. Peyeri, Edvardus Bernardus (11 pages)
• An Explanation of the Cutts of Two Porphyry Pillars in Aegypt
  I. P. Wurtelbaur, I. G. Volckamero, G. C. Eimmart (8 pages)
• A Letter, Subscribed W. Tenon, concerning Dr Papin's New Water-Engine
  W. Tenon (7 pages)
• Eclipsis Lunae Totalis Cum Mora, Anno 1685. Die 10 Decemb. St. N. Observata Gedani à Johanne Hevelio
  Johanne Hevelio (11 pages)
• An Abstract of a Letter from Mr J. Flamsteed. Math. Reg. et F. of the R.S. Giving the Description et Uses of an Instrument for Finding the Distances of 4^s Satellits from His Axis, with the Help of the Table of Parallaxes and Catalogue of Eclipses; Printed in the Preceding Transactions
  J. Flamsteed (9 pages)
• A Remarkable Account of a Liver, Appearing Glandulous to the Eye; Communicated by Mr John Brown, Chirurgeon of St Thomas's Hospitall in Southwark; In a Letter to One of the Secretarys of the Royal Society
  John Brown (5 pages)
• Two Extracts of the Journall of the Phil. Soc. of Oxford; One Containing a Paper, Communicated March 31, 1685, by the Reuerend 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
  Dr Wallis (4 pages)
• Part of a Letter to One of the Secr. of the R. Society, from the Learned Dr Salomon Reiselius, Chief Physician to the Duke of Wirtemberg; concerning the Sipho Wirtembergicus Stutgardiae. 8. Oct. S. V. 1685
  Dr Salomon (3 pages)
• A Full Description, with the Use, of the New Contriuance for Raising-Water, Propounded in the Phil. Trans. N degrees. 173; By Dr Papin, Fellow of the R. S.
  Dr Papin (7 pages)
• A Letter from Mr William Cole of Bristol, to the Phil. Society of Oxford; Containing His Observations on the Purple Fish
  William Cole (11 pages)
• Two Letters from Mr W. Nicolson, concerning Two Runic Inscriptions at Beaucastle, and Bridekirk
  William Nicolson (10 pages)
• An Account of the Latitude of Constantinople, and Rhodes, Written by the Learned Mr John Greaves, Sometime Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, and Directed to the Most Reverend James Ussher, Arch-Bishop of Armagh
  John Greaves (7 pages)
• Accounts of Two Books
  Francisci Willughbeii, Godefridi Bidloo (10 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (8 pages)