Volume 16 (1686)

Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775)

108 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (27 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• A Discourse Concernimg Gravity, and Its Properties, Wherein the Descent of Heavy Bodies, and the Motion of Projects is briefly, but Fully Handled: Together with the Solution of a Problem of Great Use in Gunnery. By E. Halley
  E. Halley (24 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment Shewn before the Royal Society, of Shooting by the Rarefaction of the Air: By Dr. D. Papin, R. S S.
  D. Papin (7 pages)
• Part of a Letter from Dr. Salomon Reisel, Chief Physician to the Duke of Wirtemburg, About An Extraordinary Tincture Given To a Stone: Stutgardiae, Febr. 120. 1686
  Salomon Reisel (8 pages)
• A Catalogue of Simple and Mixt Colours, with a Specimen of Each Colour Prefixt to Its Proper Name: By R. Waller, Fellow of the Royal Society
  R. Waller (12 pages)
• Accounts Of Books
  Richard Cumberland, Gulielmi Cooper (5 pages)
• The Preface
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• A Voyage of the Emperor of China into the Eastern Tartary, Anno. 1682
  Anonymous (14 pages)
• A Voyage of the Emperor of China, into the Western Tartary, in the Year, 1683
  Anonymous (12 pages)
• An Explanation, Necessary to Justify the Geography Supposed in These Letters
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Some Observations, and Conjectures concerning the Chinese Characters. Made by R. H. R. S. S.
  R. H. (19 pages)
• An Account of An Engine That Consumes Smoak, Shown Lately At St. Germans Fair in Paris Communicated by Mr. Justell R. S. S.
  Mr. Justell (3 pages)
• An Extract of the Journal Des Scavans. of April 22 st. N. 1686. Giving an Account of Two New Satellites of Saturn, Discovered Lately by Mr. Cassini at the Royal Observatory at Paris
  Mr. Cassini (8 pages)
• Two Astronomical Observations of the Eclipses of the Planet Jupiter, by the Moon in March and April Last, Made at London
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• A Discourse on This Problem; Why Bodies Dissolved in Menstrua Specifically Lighter Than Themselves Swim Therein By Mr. William Molyneux, of Dublin. Member of the Royal Society
  William Molyneux (7 pages)
• A Letter of Dr. Sigismond Konig, Physician of Bern in Switzerland, to the Royal Society, Being A Continuation of the History of His Patient Margaret Lower; An Account Whereof is Given in the Third Philosophical Collection, of December 10th. 1681
  Sigismond Konig (12 pages)
• A Discourse of the Rule of the Decrease of the Height of the Mercury in the Barometer, According as Places are Elevated Above the Surface of the Earth, with an Attempt to Discover the True Reason of the Rising and Falling of the Mercury, upon Change of of Weather
  Edm. Halley (15 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  R. Boyle, Mr. Mariotte (9 pages)
• An Essay towards An Universal Alphabet
  Francis Lodwick (13 pages)
• Some Further Remarks on the Instrument Proposed By An Anonymous French Author, For Effecting a Perpetual Motion, An Account Whereof is Given in No. 177 of These Transactions, by Dr. Papin. M. D: R. S. S.
  Dr. Papin (3 pages)
• A Short Examen of the Stones Sent the R. Society from Berne, Whereof An Accountis Given in the Last Transaction: By Frederick Slare M. D. R. S. Soc.
  Frederick Slare (7 pages)
• Two Observations of the Last Eclipse November 30th Last, Made At Nuremberg; The One By Mr. G. C. Eimmart, the Other By Mr. J. Ph. Wurtzelbaur: Communicated by Mr. Theodore Haak R. S. S.
  J. Ph. Wurtzelbaur, Theodore Haak, G. C. Eimmart (3 pages)
• An Extract of A Letter Written from Aramont in Languedoc Near Avignon, Giving An Account of An Extraordinary Swarm of Grashoppers in Those Parts; Communicated By Mr. Justell R. S. S.
  Mr. Justell (4 pages)
• Erratum
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Extract of Two Essays in Political Arithmetick concerning the Comparative Magnitudes, etc. of London and Paris by Sr. William Petty Knight. R. S. S.
  William Petty Knight (2 pages)
• An Historical Account of the Trade Winds, and Monsoons, Observable in the Seas between and Near the Tropicks, with an Attempt to Assign the Phisical Cause of the Said Winds, By E. Halley
  E. Halley (20 pages)
• A Dioptrick Problem, Why Four Conuex-Glasses In A Telescope, Shew Objects Erect. by William Molineux of Dublin Esq. R. S. Soc.
  William Molineux (5 pages)
• An Uncommon Inscription Lately Found on a Very Great Basis of A Pillar, Dug Up At Rome; With An Interpretation of the Same By the Learned Dr. Vossius.
  Dr. Vossius (5 pages)
• Several Observations of the Eclipse of Jupiter by the Moon on March the 31th. 1686. St.Vet. Where-Of Some Account Has Already been Given in Transaction No. 181
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• Occultatio Jouis Anno 1686, Die 10 April. St. N. Vesperi, Observata Gedani a Joh. Hevelio
  Joh Hevelio (8 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  J. Craige, Johanne Craige (7 pages)
• An Account of the Course of the Tides in the Port of Dublin in Ireland, Communicated in a Letter to the Publisher, from William Molineux Esq. R. S. S. with a Remark Thereupon
  William Molineux (3 pages)
• A Demonstration of the Velocity Wherewith the Air Rushes into an Exhausted Receiver, Lately Produced before the R. Society By Dr. D. Papin. Reg. Soc. S.
  D. Papin (4 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter from Mr. J. Flamsteed Astr. Reg. and Reg. Soc. S. Giving His Calculation of the Eclipses of Jupiters Satellites for the Year 1687. Together with a Table of the Parallaxes of the Orb, and the Ephemeris of Jupiters Geocentric Place for the Same Year; To which is Added An Observation of the Eclipse of the Moon Novemb. 30, 1695. Made at Lisbon, and Mr. Flamsteed's Own Observation of the Eclipse of Jupiter by the Moon on March 31th. Past
  J. Flamsteed (12 pages)
• Accounts of Books
  Robert Plott, Will Molineux (11 pages)
• A Table Shewing the Time of High Water on the Coasts, and in the Ports of France, upon the Day of the New and Full Moon. Taken from the French Ephemerides called La Connoissance Des Temps for the Year 1687
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• The Verbal Process upon the Discovery of an Antient Sepulchre, in the Village of Cocherel upon the River Eure in France
  Anonymous (8 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Written from Rome, Dated the 16th. of November Last, to Signior Sarotti, concerning a Discovery Made upon the Inundation of the Tevere. Translated out of the Italian
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Relation of a Petrified Glandula Pinealis, Lately Found in the Dissection of a Brain: Communicated by Sr. Edmond King Knt. M. D. and Reg. Soc. S.
  Edmond King (5 pages)
• A Correct Tide-Table, Shewing the True Times of the High-Waters at London-Bridge to Every Day in the Year 1687. By J. Flamsteed Math. R. & R. S. S.
  J. Flamsteed (5 pages)
• Eclipsis Lunae Observata Dublinii, Novembris 19 no. 1686. a Dno. Gulielmo Molineux Reg. Soc. S. et Ab Eodem Regiae Societati Communicata
  Gulielmo Molineux (3 pages)
• A Further Assertion of the Propositions concerning the Magnitude, &c. of London, Contained in Two Essays in Political Arithmetic; Mentioned in Philos. Transact. Numb. 183; Together with a Vindication of the Said Essays from the Objections of Some Learned Persons of the French Nation, By Sr. W. Petty Knt. R.S.S.
  W. Petty Knt. (5 pages)
• A Description of An Invention, Whereby the Divisions of the Barometer May be Enlarged in Any Given Proportions; Produced before the Royall Society By Mr. Robert Hook R. S. Soc. and Profess. Geom. Gresham
  Robert Hook (7 pages)
• Accounts of Books
  Mallement de Messange, <prefix>Mr.</prefix> D. Cluverius, Voiage de Siam (13 pages)
• An Account of a Comet Seen at Lipsick, Sept. 1686. Taken from the Lipsick Acta Eruditorum for the Month of November Last
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• Part of a Letter Written in Latin to Thomas Gale, S. T. D. Sccret. Reg. Soc. from Carniola, By Mr. John Weichard Valvasor Liber Baro; Containing the Method of Casting Statues in Metal; Together with An Invention of His for Making Such Cast Statues of An Extraordinary Thinness, beyond Any Thing Hitherto Known or Practised
  John Weichard (6 pages)
• The Answer of Dr. Papin to Several Objections Made by Mr. Nuis against His Engine for Raising Water by the Rarefaction of the Air, Whereof a Description is Given in No. 178. of These Transactions
  Mr. Nuis (7 pages)
• An Answer of the Same to the Author of the Perpetual Motion
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Occultatio Saturni a Luna Plena, Anno 1687. Martii 19no. Mane: Observata a Dno Ed. Haines R. S. S. ad Totteridg Prope Londinum, Sub Latitudine 51.39
  Ed. Haines (2 pages)
• A Discourse concerning the Measure of the Airs Resistance to Bodies Moved in It. By the Learned John Wallis S. T. D. et R. S. Soc.
  John Wallis (14 pages)
• Part of a Letter from Mr. William Cole of Bristol to the Publisher, about the Grains Resembling Wheat Which Fell Lately in Wilt-Shire
  William Cole (2 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Written by Mr. Veay Physician at Tholouse to Mr. de St. Ussans, concerning a Very Extraordinary Hermaphrodite in That City. Communicated by Dr. Aglionby. Reg. Soc. S.
  Mr. Veay, Dr. Aglionby (3 pages)
• Accounts of Books
  Joanne Rajo, Is. Newton (16 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Receipt to Cure Mad Dogs, or Men or Beasts Bitten by Mad Dogs: Communicated to the Royal Society, by Sir Rob. Gourdon. By His Majesties Command
  Rob. Gourdon (2 pages)
• A Letter of Monsieur Cassini to the Publisher, Giving His Corrections of the Theory of the Five Satellites of Saturn; With Tables of the Motions of Those Satellites, Adapted to the Meridian of London, and the Julian Account
  Monsieur Cassini (9 pages)
• An Account of Several Curious Observations and Experiments, concerning the Growth of Trees; Made by Thomas Brotherton, of Hey, in the County of Lancaster, Esq; Brought in and Read before the R. S. by R. H. Fellow of the Said Society
  Thomas R. H. Brotherton (10 pages)
• Concerning the Apparent Magnitude of the Sun and Moon, or the Apparent Distance of Two Stars, when Nigh the Horizon, and When Higher Elevated
  William Molyneux (13 pages)
• The Sentiments of the Reverend and Learned Dr. John Wallis, R. S. Soc. upon the Aforesaid Appearance, Communicated in a Letter to the Publisher
  John Wallis (8 pages)
• Account of a Book
  D. Papin (5 pages)
• Observations of what did Praeternaturally Occur in the Opening of the Body of Mr. Smith of Highgate, July 8th. 1687. Communicated by That Learned Physitian Dr. Edward Tyson Reg. Soc. Soc.
  Edward Tyson (4 pages)
• A Relation of an Extraordinary Effect of the Power of Imagination: Communicated by Mr. Edward Smith, Secretary to the Philosophical Society at Dublin, as It was Brought before That Company, by Mr. St. George Ash. R. Soc. S. Who Had Seen the Thing
  St. George, Edward Smith (2 pages)
• De Constructione Problematum Solidorum, Sive AEquationum Tertiae Vel Quartae Potestatis, Unica Data Parabola ac Circulo Efficienda; Dissertati-Uncula: Authore Edm. Halley
  Edm. Halley (10 pages)
• A Letter of Mr. de la Hire of the Royal Academy of the Sciences at Paris, concerning a New Sort of Magnetical Compass, with Several Curious Magnetical Experiments
  <prefix>Mr.</prefix> De la Hire (9 pages)
• A Relation of the Great Effects of a New Sort of Burning Speculum Lately Made in Germany: Taken from the Acta Eruditorum of the Month of January Last: Being a Letter from the Inuentor to the Authors of That Journal
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• An Account of Some Saxon Coyns Found in Suffolk; Communicated by Sir P. S. R. S. Soc.
  P. S. (12 pages)
• An Estimate of the Quantity of Vapour Raised out of the Sea by the Warmth of the Sun; Derived from an Experiment Shown before the Royal Society, at One of Their Late Meetings: by E. Halley
  E. Halley (6 pages)
• Observationes Nonnullae Eclipseos Nuperae Solaris, Maii 1. St. vet. Diversis in Locis Habitae, Ac Cum Regiâ Societate Communicatae
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Accounts Of Books
  Confucius Sinarum, Alexander Pitsield, Richard Waller (9 pages)
• De Sestertio Dissertatiuncula ex Opusculis Posthumis Viri Celeberrimi D. D. Isaaci Barrow Nuper Editis Decerpta
  de Sestertio (4 pages)
• De Numero Radicum in Aequationibus Solidis ac Biquadraticis, Sive Tertiae ac Quartae Potestatis, Earumq; Limitibus, Tractatulus Authore E. Halley
  E. Halley (18 pages)
• An Account of Some Observations Lately Made at Nurenburg by Mr. P. Wurtzelbaur, Shewing That the Latitude of That Place Has Continued without Sensible Alteration for 200 Years Last Past; as Likewise the Obliquity of the Ecliptick; By Comparing Them with what Was Observed by Bernard Walther in the Year 1487, being a Discourse Read before the Royal Society in One of Our Late Meetings
  P. Wurtzelbaur, Bernard Walther (5 pages)
• An Account of the Diseases of Doggs, and Several Receipts for the Cure of their Madness, and of those Bitten by them. Extracted from the Papers of Sir Theodore Mayern, and Communicated to the Royal Society by Sir Theodore de Vaux, Knt. and R. Soc. S.
  Theodore de Vaux, Theodore Mayern (4 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Written to the Royal Society out of Carniola, by Mr. John Weichard Valvafor, R. Soc. S. being a Full and Accurate Description of the Wonderful Lake of Zirknitz in That Country. Vide Phil. Tranfact. N. 54, et 109
  John Weichard (20 pages)
• A Correct Tide-Table, Shewing the True Times of the High-Waters at London-Bridge to every Day in the Year 1688. By J. Flamsteed, Matth. Reg. & R. S. S.
  J. Flamsteed (6 pages)
• A Conjecture at the Quantity of Blood in Men, together with an Estimate of the Celerity of Its Circulation. By Allen Moulin, M. D. Reg. S. S.
  Allen Moulin (3 pages)
• Catalogus Eclipsium Omnium Satellitum Jovialium Anno 1688 per Universam Terram Visibilium; Momenta Occultationum Eorum in Jovis Umbrâ, ac ex Eâdem Egressuum Sub Meridiano Londinensi exhibens. Supputante E. H.
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• Accounts of Books
  Ph. de la Hire, Francisco Jessop (7 pages)
• The Report Made to His Majesty by the Company of Parish-Clerks of London, of the Number of Christnings and Burials in the Years 1686 and 1687
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of an Observation of an Eclipse of the Moon, Observed at Moscua in Russia, on April 5. 1688. Compared with the Same Observed at Lipsick; whereby the Longitude of the former Place is Ascertained: Together with the Latitude of Several Principal Places in the Empire of Russia
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• A Discourse concerning the Most Seasonable Time of Felling of Timber; Written by the Advice of the Honorable Sam. Pepys Esq; Secretary of the Admiralty, and Presented to His Late Majesty. By Robert Plot LL.D. and R. S. Soci
  Sam. Pepys (8 pages)
• A Description of the Pimienta or Jamaica Pepper-Tree, and of the Tree That Bears the Cortex Winteranus: Communicated by Hans Sloane, M. D. and Reg. Soci. S.
  Hans Sloane (9 pages)
• An Account of the Circulation of the Watry Vapours of the Sea, and of the Cause of Springs, Presented to the Royal Society. By E. Halley
  E. Halley (7 pages)
• A Discourse concerning the Modern Theory of Generation; by Dr. George Garden of Aberdeen, being Part of a Letter to Dr. William Musgrave, LL. D. Reg. Soc. S. and by him Communicated to the Royal Society
  George Garden (11 pages)
• Observatio Mercurii Sub Sole Visi, Ultimo Octobris 1690. Stil. vet. Habita Noribergae ab Astronomo Accuratissimo Johanne Phil. Wurtzelbaur, Atque ab Codem Cum Reg. Societate Communicata
  Johanne Phil Wurtzelbaur (4 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment of the Injection of Mercury into the Blood, and Its Ill Effects on the Lungs; As It was Communicated to the Royal Society by Their Late Worthy Member A. Moulin, M. D.
  A. Moulin (4 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  Robert Boyle (4 pages)
• An Account of a Large and Curious Map of the Great Tartary, lately Publish'd in Holland, by Mr. Nicholas Witsen, being an Extract of a Letter from the Author thereof, to the Honourable Sir Robert Southwell Knt. and President of the Royal Society
  Nicholas Witsen (4 pages)
• A Discourse Tending to Proue at What Time and Place, Julius Cesar Made His First Descent upon Britain: Read before the Royal Society by E. Halley
  E. Halley (8 pages)
• A Receit for the Curing of Castorium, according to the Method us'd in Russia
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Observations on the Making of Cochineal, according to a Relation Had from an Old Spaniard at Jamaica, Who Had Liued Many Years in That Part of the West-Indies Where Great Quantities of That Rich Commodity are Yearly Made
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• Some Experiments and Obseruations Made of the Force of the Pressure of the Water in Great Depths, Made and Communicated to the Royal Society, by a Person of Honour
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• Lumbricus Hydropicus; O r An Essay to Prove that Hydatides Often met with in Morbid Animal Bodies, are a Species of Worms, or Imperfect Animals. By That Learned and Curious Anatomist Edward Tyson, M. D. and R. Soc. S.
  Edward Tyson (7 pages)
• De Visibili Conjunctione Inferiorum Planetarum Cum Sole, Dissertatio Astronomica, Authore E. Halley
  E. Halley (14 pages)
• Some Observations Made on the Spawn of Frogs, and of the Production of Todpoles therein, by the Learned and Curious Richard Waller, Esq; Reg. S. Secret
  Richard Waller (4 pages)
• An Account of a Ruminating Man lately Living at Bristol, given in to the Royal Society, by the Experienced and Learned Frederick Slare, M. D. & Reg. Soc. S.
  Frederick Slare (4 pages)
• A Letter from That Incomparable Botanist Mr. John Ray, giving an Account of the Phytographia of Leonard Plukenet, M. D. Lately published. Lond. fol. 1691
  John Ray (4 pages)
• The Method the Indians in Virginia and Carolina use to Dress Buck and Doe Skins; As It was Communicated to the Royal Society by the Honourable Sir Robert Southwell, Knt. Their President
  Robert Southwell (3 pages)
• Observationes Ponderis Testudinis Terrestris, Cum in Autumno Terram Subiret, Cum Ejusdem ex Terrâ Verno Tempore Exeuntis Pondere Comparati, per Plures anos Repetitae: Experimento Celeberrimi D. D. Georgii Ent, Equitis, & M. D. & à Doctissimo D. D. Rob. Pitt, M. D. & R. S. S. Communicatae
  Rob. Pitt (3 pages)
• Emendationes & Notae in Tria Loca Vitiose Edita in Textu Vulgato Naturalis Historiae C. Plinii, per E. Halley
  E. Halley (7 pages)
• An Account of the Measure of the Thickness of Gold upon Gilt-Wire, Together with a Demonstration of the exceeding Minuteness of the Atoms or Constituent Particles of Gold; As It Was Read before the R. Society, by E. Halley
  E. Halley (4 pages)
• Observationes Aliquot Rariores de Morboso Liene, à Spectatissimo Domino D. Nehemia Grew, M. D. ac R. S. Socio Cum Eadem Societate Communicatae
  D. Nehemia Grew (3 pages)
• An Account of a Book
  Clopton Havers (12 pages)
• An Account of the Several Species of Infinite Quantity, and of the Proportions they Bear One to the Other, as It Was Read before the Royal Society, by E. Halley
  E. Halley (4 pages)
• A Discourse concerning the Musical Notes of the Trumpet, and Trumpet-Marine, and of the Defects of the Same, by the Honourable Francis Roberts, Esq; R. S. S.
  Francis Roberts (7 pages)
• An Account of the Cause of the Change of the Variation of the Magnetical Needle; With an Hypothesis of the Structure of the Internal Parts of the Earth: As It Was Proposed to the Royal Society in One of Their Late Meetings. By Edm. Halley
  Edm. Halley (18 pages)