Volume 2 (1666)

Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678)

70 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (9 pages)
• To the Right Honourable William Lord Viscount Brouncker, Chancellor to Her Majesty, and President to the Royal Society, &c.
  Henry Oldenburg (2 pages)
• A Preface to the Third Year of These Tracts
  Anonymous (8 pages)
• Inquiries for Suratte, and Other Parts of the East-Indies
  Anonymous (9 pages)
• Of a Considerable Load-Stone Digged Out of the Ground in Devonshire
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Some Observables about Load-Stones, and Sea-Compasses
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Proposals to Try the Effects of the Pneumatick Engine Exhausted, in Plants, Seeds, Eggs of Silkworms
  Dr. Beale (3 pages)
• Observations Concerning Emmets or Ants, Their Eggs, Production, Progress, Coming to Maturity, Use, &c
  Edmund King (5 pages)
• An Account of a Small Book
  Sr. Chapuzeau (5 pages)
• Directions for Observations and Experiments to Be Made by Masters of Ships, Pilots, and Other Fit Persons in Their Sea-Voyages
  Anonymous (19 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of an Easier and Safer Way of Transfusing Blood Out of One Animal into Another, viz. by the Veins, without Opening Any Artery of Either
  Edmond King (4 pages)
• An Account of Another Experiment of Transfusion, viz. of Bleeding a Mangy into a Sound Dog
  Thomas Coxe (3 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter of M. Denis Prof. of Philosophy and Mathematicks to M. * * * Touching the Transfusion of Blood, of April 2. 1667
  M. Denis (2 pages)
• Observations Concerning the Uniting of Barks of Trees Cut, to the Tree It Self; Made by Christopher Merret M. D. and Read before the Royal Society January 9. 1666
  Christopher Merret (3 pages)
• An Experiment of Making Cherry-Trees, That Have Withered Fruit, to Bear Full and Good Fruit; And of Recovering the Almost Withered Fruit
  Christopher Merret (2 pages)
• An Experiment on Aloe Americana Serrati-Folia Weighed; Seeming to Import a Circulation of the Sappe in Plants, by the Same Dr. Merret
  Dr. Merret (4 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written by Mr. Richard Towneley to Dr. Croon, Touching the Invention of Dividing a Foot into Many Thousand Parts, for Mathematical Purposes
  Richard Towneley (3 pages)
• More Wayes for the Same Purpose, Intimated by M. Hook
  M. Hook (2 pages)
• Observations of the Star, Called Nebulosa, in the Girdle of Andromeda; And of the Wondrous Star in the Neck of the Whale: Made and Communicated by Monsieur Bullialdus
  Monsieur Bullialdus (3 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter of M. Pecquet to M. Carcavi, Concerning a New Discovery of the Communication of the Ductus Thoracicus with the Emulgent Vein: Taken Out of the Journal des Scavans, N. VII. 1667
  M. Pecquet (5 pages)
• A Description of Several Kinds of Granaries, as Those of London, of Dantzick, and in Muscovy
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• Inquiries for Hungary and Transylvania
  Thomas Henshaw, Abraham Hill (7 pages)
• Experiments for Improving the Art of Gunnery
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• Answer to Some Magnetical Inquiries, Proposed Numb. 23. of These Transactions, Pag. 423, 424
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Extract of a Letter, Written from Paris, Containing an Account of Some Effects of the Transfusion of Bloud; And of Two Monstrous Births, &c
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Account of Two Monstrous Births, not Long since Produced in Devonshire; Communicated by M. Colepresse
  M. Colepresse (3 pages)
• Some Observations Made in Mines, and at Sea, Occasioning a Conjecture about the Origine of Wind: Imparted by the Same Mr. C.
  D. Nath. Fairfax, Mr. C. (3 pages)
• Account of a Great Number of Stones, Found in One Bladder, by the Same
  D. Nath. Fairfax, Mr. C. (2 pages)
• The Description of a Well, and Earth in Lanchashire, Taking Fire by a Candle Approached to It
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• Account of Athanasii Kircheri China Illustrata
  Athanasii Kircheri (7 pages)
• An Advertisement Concerning the Invention of the Transfusion of Bloud
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Account of Some Experiments of Injecting Liquors into the Veins of Animals, Lately Made in Italy by Signior Fracassati Professor of Anatomy at Pisa
  Signior Fracassati (3 pages)
• An Account of Some Discoveries Concerning the Brain, and the Tongue, Made by Signior Malpighi, Professor of Physick in Sicily
  Signior Malpighi (3 pages)
• An Experiment of Signior Fracassati upon Bloud Grown Cold
  Signior Fracassati (2 pages)
• Some Observations Communicated by Signior Manfredus Septalius from Milan, Concerning Quicksilver Found at the Roots of Plants, and Shels Found upon In-Land Mountains
  Manfredus Septalius (2 pages)
• Observations Made by a Curious and Learned Person, Sailing from England, to the Caribe-Islands
  Anonymous (9 pages)
• Extract of a Letter, Written by Mr. Sam. Colepress to the Publisher, Containing an Account of Some Magnetical Experiments; As Also of an Excellent Liquor Made of Cyder-Apples and Mulberries
  Sam. Colepress (3 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Nicolao Stenone, Tho. Sprat, Gualtero Needham (13 pages)
• An Account of More Tryals of Transfusion, Accompanied with Some Considerations Thereon, Chiefly in Reference to Its Circumspect Practise on Man; Together with a Farther Vindication of This Invention from Usurpers
  Anonymous (10 pages)
• Answers to Some of the Iuquires Formerly Publish'd Concerning Mines
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Sent from Paris, about the Load-Stone; Where Chiefly the Suggestion of Gilbert Touching the Circumvolution of a Globous Magnet, Call'd Terrella; And the Variation on of the Variation, is Examined
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Robert Boyle, Joh. Swammerdam, Justo Klobio (8 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment Made by Mr. Hook, of Preserving Animals Alive by Blowing through Their Lungs with Bellows
  Mr. Hook (3 pages)
• A Description of an Instrument for Dividing a Foot into Many Thousand Parts, and Thereby Measuring the Diameters of Planets to a Great Exactness, &c. as It Was Promised, Numb. 25
  Anonymous (7 pages)
• An Account of Making a Dog Draw His Breath Exactly Like a Wind-Broken Horse, as It Was Devised and Experimented by Dr. Richard Lower; With Some of His Instructive Observations Thereon
  Richard Lower (4 pages)
• Anatomical Observations on a Humane Body, Dead of Odd Diseases; As They Were Communicated by Dr. Nathanael Fairfax
  Nathanael Fairfax (5 pages)
• Divers Instances of Peculiarities of Nature, Both in Men and Brutes; Communicated by the Same
  Nathanael Fairfax (4 pages)
• A Confirmation of the Experiments Mentioned in Numb. 27. to Have Been Made by Signor Fracassati in Italy, by Injecting Acid Liquors into Blood
  Signor Fracassati (3 pages)
• An Observation about the Epiploon, or the Double Membrane, Which Covers the Entrails of Animals, and is Filled with Fat
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Some Hortulan Communications about the Curious Engrafting of Oranges and Lemons, or Citrons, upon One Anothers Trees, and of One Individual Fruit, Half Orange and Half Lemon Growing on Such Trees, &c
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Enquiries for Greenland
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Account of the Synopsis Novae Philosophiae & Medicinae Francisci Travagini Medici Veneti
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Account of the Experiment of Transfusion, Practised upon a Man in London
  Arthur Coga (4 pages)
• A Relation of Some Trials of the Same Operation, Lately Made in France
  Anonymous (7 pages)
• Some New Experiments of Injecting Medicated Liquors into Veins, Together with the Considerable Cures Perform'd Thereby
  Dr.Fabritius (3 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written from the Bermudas, Giving an Account of the Course of the Tides There; Of Wells Both Salt and Sweet, Digg'd Near the Sea; Of the Whale-Fishing There Practised Anew, and of Such Whales as Have the Sperma Ceti in Them
  Richard Norwood (4 pages)
• A Method for Finding the Number of the Julian Period for Any Year Assign'd, the Number of the Cycle of the Sun, the Cycle of the Moon, and of the Indictions for the Same Year,being Given; Together with the Demonstration of That Method
  Anonymous (9 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Francisci du Laurens, du Sieur de Launay, Petri Lambecii, Thomae Cornelii (7 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• New Experiments Concerning the Relation between Light and Air (in Shining Wood and Fish); Made by the Honourable Robert Boyle, and by Him Addressed from Oxford to the Publisher, and So Communicated to the Royal Society
  Robert Boyle (21 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  F. M. B. V. Helmont, Thomae Willis (6 pages)
• Observations and Tryals about the Resemblances and Differences between a Burning Coal and Shining Wood
  Anonymous (9 pages)
• An Observation Concerning a Blemish in an Horses Eye, Not Hitherto Discover'd by Any Author, Which May be of Great Use in the Choice of an Horse to Those Who are Curious; Made by Dr. Richard Lower at the Royal Society, January 23. 1667/8
  Richard Lower (3 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Written by Signor Cassini Professor of Astronomy in Bononia, to Monsieur Petit at Paris, and Englished out of the Journal Des Scavans, Concerning Several Spots Lately Discover'd There in the Planet Venus
  Signor Cassini (4 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written by J. DENIS, Doctor of Physick, and Professor of Philosophy and the Mathematicks at Paris, Touching a Late Cure of an Inveterate Phrenfy by the Transfusion of Blood
  J. Denis (8 pages)
• An Exact Narrative of an Hermaphrodite Now in London
  Tho. Allen (3 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Joh. Alphons. Borelli, Honorato Fabri (5 pages)
• An Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)