Volume 26 (1708)

Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775)

80 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (18 pages)
• Experimenta & Observationes de Soni Motu, Aliisque ad id Attinentibus, Factae a Reverendo D. W. Derham Ecclesiae Upminsteriensis Rectore, & Societatis Regalis Londinensis Socio.
  Soni Motu, W. Derham (35 pages)
• A Relation of the Strange Effects of Thunder and Lighting, Which Happened at Mrs. Close's House at New-Forge, in the County of Down in Ireland, on the 9th of August, 1707. Communicated by Samuel Molyneux Esq; Secretary of the Philosophical Society at Dublin
  Samuel Molyneux (8 pages)
• Part of a Letter from Dr. Archibald Adams, to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr. concerning an Apoplectick Person, in Whom, from an Obstruction in the Left Ventricle of the Brain, the Nerves on the Opposite Side Were Affected
  Archibald Adams (2 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Ra. Calep, to Mr. William Cowper, F. R. S. concerning a Woman 62 Years of Age (Who is Still Living) That Lost Her Leg and Greatest Part of Her Thigh by a Gangrene
  Ra. Calep (4 pages)
• The Manner of Making Styrax Liquida, Alias Rosa Mallas. Communicated by Mr. James Petiver, F. R. S.
  James Petiver (2 pages)
• The Practice of Purging and Vomiting Medicines, according to Dr. Cockburn's Solution of His Problem; With Tables Shewing Their Doses in Particular Ages and Constitutions. Inscrib'd to the Learned Dr. Garth. F. R. S. by W. Cockburn, M. D.
  W. Cockburn (12 pages)
• Microscopical Observations on the Blood Vessels and Membranes of the Intestines. In a Letter to the Royal Society from Mr. Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S.
  Anthony van Leeuwenhoek (8 pages)
• An Account of the Manner of Manuring Lands by Sea-Shells, as Practised in the Counties of Londonderry and Donegall in Ireland. By His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin. Communicated by Samuel Molyneux Esq;
  Lord Archbishop of Dublin, Samuel Molyneux (7 pages)
• De Linearum Curvarum Longitudine Authore Jo. Craig
  Jo. Craig (4 pages)
• An Account of a New Island Raised Near Sant-Erini in the Archipelago; Being Part of a Letter to Mr. James Petiver, F. R. S. from Dr. W. Sherard, Consul at Smirna, &c.
  W. Sherard (3 pages)
• Experiments of the Luminous Qualities of Amber, Diamonds, and Gum Lac, by Dr. Wall, in a Letter to Dr. Sloane, R. S. Secr.
  Dr. Wall (9 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• An Account of the Repetition of an Experiment Touching Motion Given Bodies Included in a Glass, by the Approach of a Finger Near Its Outside: With Other Experiments on the Effluvia of Glass. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (6 pages)
• An Account of Some Experiments, Touching the Electricity and Light Producible on the Attrition of Several Bodies. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (7 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment Touching the Different Densities of the Air, from the Greatest Natural Heat, to the Greatest Natural Cold in This Climate. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (5 pages)
• Joannis Keill ex Aede Christi Oxon. A. M. Epistola ad Cl. Virum Gulielmum Cockburn, Medicinoe Doctorem. In qua Leges Attractiones Aliaque Physices Principia Traduntur
  Joannis Keill (15 pages)
• Microscopical Observations upon the Tongue; In a Letter to the Royal Society from Mr. Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S.
  Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek (17 pages)
• Part of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. W. Derham, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr. concerning the Migration of Birds
  W. Derham (3 pages)
• Microscopical Observations on Red Coral: In a Letter to the Royal Society from Mr. Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S.
  Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek (10 pages)
• Part of a Letter from Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr. concerning Some Roman Coins Found in Yorkshire
  Ralph Thoresby (5 pages)
• Part of a Letter from Orlando Bridgman Esq; F. R. S. to Capt. Wine, Giving an Account of a Storm of Thunder and Lightning That Happen'd at Ipswich, July 16, 1708
  Orlando Bridgman (4 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Jos. Nelson, concerning the Effects of the Abovementioned Storm of Thunder and Lightning at Colchester
  Jos. Nelson (4 pages)
• Part of a Letter from Dr. Arthur Bury, to the Reverend John Chamberlayne Esq; F.R.S. concerning the Manuring of Land in Devonshire by Sea-Sand
  Arthur Bury (3 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Edward Lhuyd, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, to Dr. R.R. in Yorkshire; Giving an Account of a Book
  Edward Lhuyd, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (26 pages)
• A Relation of an Idiot at Ostend; With Two Other Chirurgical Cases. By Mr. Claud. Amijand, in a Letter to Mr. Wilson: Communicated by Mr. de la Fage
  de la Fage, Claud Amijand (6 pages)
• Jo. Keill ex Aede Christi Oxoniensis, A. M. Epistola ad Clarissimum Virum Edmundum Halleium Geometriae Professorem Savilianum, de Legibus Virium Centripetarum
  Jo. Keill (16 pages)
• An Extract of Two Letters from the Missionary Jesuits, concerning the Discovery of the New Philippine-Islands, with a Map of the Same
  Paul Clain, <prefix>Father</prefix> Le Gobien (13 pages)
• A Relation of the New Island Thrown up Near the Island of Santerini; Sent to the Marquis of Ferriol, Ambassador Extraordinary of France at the Ottoman Port. Taken from the Memoirs of the History of Arts and Sciences at Trevoux, for the Month of July, 1708
  Bourguignon (10 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. Containing His Observations upon the White Matter on the Tongues of Feverish Persons, &c.
  Anthony van Leeuwenhoek (6 pages)
• A Letter concerning a Colliery That Took Fire, and Was Blown up Near Newcastle, Killing 69 Persons, on August 18, 1708. Communicated by the Reverend Dr. Arthur Charlett, Master of University College in Oxford
  Arthur Charlett (4 pages)
• An Account of the Success of an Attempt to Continue Several Atmospheres of Air Condensed in the Space of One, for a Considerable Time. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (3 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment, Touching the Production of Light Within a Globe Glass, Whose Inward Surface is Lin'd with Sealing-Wax upon an Attrition of Its Outside. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee; F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (4 pages)
• An Account of Some Experiments, in Relation to the Weight of Common Water under Different Circumstances. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (3 pages)
• A Relation of Some Strange and Wonderful Effects of the Scurvey, Which Happened at Paris in the Year 1699. By Mr. Poupart. Taken from the Memoirs of the History of the Academy of Sciences
  Mr. Poupart (11 pages)
• An Extract of a Memoir, concerning the Discovery of a Passage by Land to California; With a Map and Description of That Country. Presented to the Royal Council of Guadalaxara in Mexico, by Francis Maria Picolo. Taken from the Letters of the Missionary Jesuits, Printed at Paris
  Francis Maria Picolo (10 pages)
• De Variis Animalibus Philippensibus, ex MSS. R. P. Geo. Jos Camelli. Communicavit D. Jac. Petiver, S. R. S.
  Geo. Jos. Camelli, D. Jac. Petiver (9 pages)
• A Letter from. Mr. Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. concerning the Circulation of the Blood in Fishes, &c.
  Anthony van Leeuwenhoek (10 pages)
• Several Experiments Touching the Seeming Spontaneous Ascent of Water. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (10 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment Touching the Different Densities of Common Water, from the Greatest Degree of Heat in our Climate, to the Freezing Point, Observ'd by a Thermometer. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (3 pages)
• An Account of Some Experiments, in Relation to the Weight of Common Water, under Different Circumstances. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee. F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (3 pages)
• Epistola D. Guidonis Grandi, Societatis Regalis Londin. Socii, ad Illust. Comitem D. Laurentium Magalotti, Dictae Societatis Socium, De Natura & Proprietatibus Soni
  Laurentium Magalotti, Guidonis Grandi (20 pages)
• Part of a Letter from Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, Reg. Soc. Secr. concerning Some Roman Antiquities Found in Yorkshire; And a Storm of Thunder, Lightning, and Rain, That Happen'd There, August 5, 1708
  Ralph Thoresby (4 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Microscopical Observations on the Palates of Oxen, &c. By Mr. Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S.
  Anthony van Leeuwenhoek (10 pages)
• An Experiment Touching the Freezing of Common Water, and Water Purg'd of Air. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (4 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment Touching the Freezing of Common Water, Ting'd with a Liquid Said to be Extracted from Shell-Lac. By Mr. Francis Hauksbee. F. R. S.
  Francis Hauksbee (3 pages)
• An Experiment Touching the Weighing of Bodies of the Same Species, but of Very Unequal Surfaces, in Common Water, Being of an Equal Weight in Common Air. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (4 pages)
• A Letter from the Reverend Mr. W. Derham, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr. Giving an Account of Some Inundations; Monstrous Births, Appearances in the Heavens, and Other Observables He Received from Ireland. With His Observations on the Eclipse of the Sun, Sept. 3. and of the Moon, Sept. 18, 1708
  W. Derham (7 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr. concerning Some Roman Antiquities Observed in Yorkshire
  Ralph Thoresby (3 pages)
• Part of a Letter from William Burnet Esq; F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr. concerning the Icy Mountains of Switzerland
  William Burnet (3 pages)
• A Brief Narrative of the Shot of Dr. Robert Fielding with a Musket-Bullet, and Its Strange Manner of Coming out of His Head, Where It Had Lam Near Thirty Years. Written by Himself
  Robert Fielding (4 pages)
• An Account of Books
  James Keill, Johanne Freind (14 pages)
• Tables of the Barometical Altitudes at Zurich in Switzerland in the Year 1708. Observed by Dr. Joh. Ja. Scheuchzer, F. R. S. and at Upminster in England, Observed at the Same Time by Mr. W. Derham, F. R. S. as Also the Rain at Pisa in Italy in 1707. and 1708. Observed There by Dr. Michael Angelo Tilli, F. R. S. and at Zurich in 1708. And at Upminster in All That Time: With Remarks on the Same Tables, as Also on the Winds, Heat and Cold, and Divers Other Matters Occurring in Those Three Different Parts of Europe. By Mr. W. Derham, Rector of Upminster
  W. Derham, Michael Angelo Tilli, Joh. Ja. Scheuchzer (34 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment, Shewing That Actual Sound is Not to be Transmitted through a Vacuum. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (3 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment, Touching the Propagation of Sound, Passing from the Sonorous Body into the Common Air, in One Direction Only. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (3 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment Touching the Propagation of Sound through Water. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (3 pages)
• An Explanation of the Figures of a Pagan Temple and Unknown Characters at Cannara in Salset. By Mr. Alexander Stuart
  Alexander Stuart (4 pages)
• Experiments upon Metals, Made with the Burning-Glass of the Duke of Orleans. By Monsieur Geoffroy, F. R. S.
  Monsieur Geoffroy (14 pages)
• Observations upon Incisions of the Cornea. By Monsieur Gandolphe, Doctor of Physick at Dunkirk. April 1709
  Monsieur Gandolphe (5 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment, Shewing That an Object May Become Visible through Such an Opake Body as Pitch in the Dark, While It is under the Ctrucumstances of Attrition and a Vacuum. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (3 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Sec. concerning Some Ancient Brass Instruments Found in Yorkshire
  Ralph Thoresby (4 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Tho. Hearne, M. A. of Oxford, to Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. Occasion'd by Some Antiquities Lately Discover'd Near Bramham-Moor in Yorkshire
  Tho. Hearne (19 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. James Yonge, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, S. R. Sec. concerning a Bunch of Hair Voided by Urine
  James Yonge (3 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Ant. Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. Containing His Observations upon the Hair Mentioned in the Foregoing Letter, &c.
  Antony van Leeuwenhoek (5 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. James Yonge, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr. concerning Several Solid Bodies Voided by Urine
  James Yonge (5 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. James Yonge, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr. Containing an Account of an Unusual Blackness of the Face; And of Several Extra-Uterine Foetus's
  James Yonge (9 pages)
• An Extract of an Other Letter from Mr. James Yonge, upon the Same Subjects as the Former
  James Yonge (2 pages)
• An Account of Three Cases of the Hydrophobia. By R. Mead, M. D. F. R. S.
  R. Mead (7 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment, Touching an Attempt to Produce Light on the Inside of a Globe-Glass Lin'd with Melted Flowers of Sulphur, as in the Experiments of Sealing-Wax and Pitch. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S.
  Fr. Hauksbee (6 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Anth. Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. Containing Some Microscopical Observations on the Particles of Chrystalliz'd Sugar, &c. and His Manner of Observing the Circulation of the Blood in an Eel
  Antony van Leeuwenhoek (8 pages)
• Part of a Letter from Mr. B. Sherman to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Sec. concerning the Bones of a Dead Foetus, Taken out of the Uterus of a Cow; And of a Callus That Supplied the Loss of Part of the Os Femoris
  B. Sherman (4 pages)
• The History of the Great Frost in the Last Winter 1703 and 1708/9 By the Reverend Mr. W. Derham, Rector of Upminster, F. R. S.
  W. Derham (26 pages)
• Microscopical Observations upon the Configuration of Diamonds: In a Letter from Mr. Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S.
  Antony Van Leeuwenhoek (8 pages)
• Part of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. W. Derham, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Sec. Giving an Account of a Child's Crying in the Womb
  W. Derham (3 pages)
• A Short Dissertation concerning the Child's Crying in the Womb. By the Reverend Mr. W. Derham, F. R. S.
  W. Derham (7 pages)
• A Letter from Mr. Antony Van Leeuenhoek, F. R. S. to John Chamberlayne, Esq; F. R. S. Containing His Observations upon the Edge of Razors, &c.
  Antony Van Leeuenhoek (7 pages)
• A Second Letter from Mr. Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. to John Chamberlayne, Esq; F. R. S. upon the Same Subject as the Former
  Antony Van Leeuwenhoek (5 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (7 pages)