Volume 29 (1714)

Front Matter

Anonymous (19 pages)

The Preface

Anonymous (3 pages)

Logometria Auctore Rogero Cotes, Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Astr. & Ph. Exp. Professore Plumiano, & R. S. S.

Rogero Cotes (42 pages)

An Extract from the Acta Eruditorum for the Month of March, 1713. Pag. 111

Anonymous (5 pages)

A Recipe: Or the Ingredients of a Medicine for the Spreading Mortal Distemper Amongst Cows: Lately Sent Over from Holland, where a Like Distemper Raged amongst the Black Cattle

Anonymous (2 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

A New Method for Making Logarithms, and Vice Versâ, for Finding the Number Corresponding to a Logarithm Given, by Help of the Following Table. Communicated by Mr. John Long, S. Theol. Bacc. and Fellow of Corpus Christi Coll. Oxon

John Long, S. Theol. Bacc. (4 pages)

An Extract of a Letter from Mr. Anthony Van Leeuwenhoeck, F. R. S. Dated October the 12th. 1713. Concerning the Fibres of the Muscles, &c.

Anthony van Leeuwenhoeck (6 pages)

An Extract from the Journal Literaire, Publish'd at the Hague, for the Months of January and February, 1714. Pag. 238. Being, An Account of Several Observations concerning the Frame and Texture of the Muscles; By Mr Muys of Franequer

Mr. Muys (4 pages)

An Extract of Several Letters from Cotton Mather, D. D. to John Woodward, M. D. and Richard Waller, Esq; S. R. Secr.

Cotton Mather (12 pages)

An Account, or History, of the Procuring the Small Pox by Incision, or Inoculation; As It Has for Some Time Been Practised at Constantinople

Emanuel Timonius, John Woodward (12 pages)

Theoremata Quaedam Infinitam Materiae Divisibilitatem Spectantia, quae Ejusdem Raritatem & Tenuem Compositionem Demonstrant, Quorum ope Plurimae in Physica Tolluntur Difficultates

Johanne Keill (6 pages)

Observationes Occultationis Stellae τ in Origine Cornu Borei Tauri, Sub Disco Lunae, Simulque Eclipseos Lunae Statim Insecutae, Anno 1713. Novemb 21. Mane St. Vet. Romae Habitae, & à Praestantissimo Astronomo D. Francisco Blanchino. R. S. S. Communicatae. Cum Emersionibus Nonnullis Intimi Jovialium Ex Umbra Jovis, Ibidem Eodem Anno Observatis

Francisco Blanchino (4 pages)

Joannis Keill M. D. & in Academia Oxoniensi Astronomiae Professoris Saviliani, Observationes in ea quae Edidit Celeberrimus Geometra Johannes Bernoulli in Commentariis Physico Mathematicis Parisiensibus Anno 1710. de inverso Problemate Virium Centripetarum. Et ejusdem Problematis Solutio Nova

Joannis Keill, Saviliani, Johannes Bernoulli (23 pages)

Rules for Correcting the Usual Methods of Computing Amounts and Present Values, by Compound as well as Simple Interest; And of Stating Interest Accounts. Offer'd to Consideration, by Thomas Watkins, Gent. F. R. S.

Thomas Watkins (18 pages)

An Account of the Rain which Fell Every Year at Upminster in Essex, the Last Eighteen Years, with Remarks upon That of the Year 1714. By W. Derham, F. R S. Also a Comparison of What Has Been Observed of That Kind at Paris, by M. De La Hire

De La Hire, W. Derham (4 pages)

Solutio Generalis Problematis XV. Propositi à D. de Moivre, in tractatu de Mensura Sortis inserto Actis Philosophicis Anglicanis No 329. Pro Numero Quocunque Collusorum: per D. Nicolaum Bernoulli, Basiliensem, Reg. Soc. Sodalem

D. Nicolaum Bernoulli (13 pages)

Solutio Generalis Altera Praecedentis Problematis, ope Combinationum & Serierum Infinitarum, per D. Abr. De Moivre. Reg. Soc Sodalem

Abr. De Moivre (16 pages)

An Account of Several Extraordinary Meteors or Lights in the Sky. by Dr. Edmund Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxon, and Secretary to the Royal-Society

Edmund Halley (7 pages)

Some Remarks on the Variations of the Magnetical Compass Published in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences, with Regard to the General Chart of Those Variations Made by E. Halley; As Also concerning the True Longitude of the Magellan Streights

E. Halley (5 pages)

Observationes Quaedam Accurate Insignis Cometae Sub Finem Anni 1680 visi, Coburgi Saxoniae a Domino Gottfried Kirch Habitae; Decimo Tertio die Antequam a Quoquam Alio Observatus Sit

Coburgi Saxoniae (5 pages)

An Account of the Book

Anonymous (53 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

D. Gothofredi Kirchii Astronomi & Observatoris Praestantissimi, & Societatis Regiae Berolinensis Dum Vixit Socii, De Varia Apparentia Stellae Novae in Collo Cygni Narratio: è Miscellaneis Berolinensibus anno MDCCX Editis Desumpta. pag. 208

Gothofredi Kirchii (5 pages)

Botanicum Hortense IV. Giving an Account of Divers Rare Plants, Observed the Last Summer A. D. 1714. in Several Curious Gardens about London, and Particularly the Society of Apothecaries Physick-Garden at Chelsea. by James Petiver, F. R. S.

James Petiver (17 pages)

Observations of the Late Total Eclipse of the Sun on the 22d of April Last Past, Made before the Royal Society at Their House in Crane-Court in Fleet-Street, London. by Dr. Edmund Halley, Reg. Soc. Secr. with an Account of What Has Been Communicated from Abroad concerning the Same

Edmund Halley (19 pages)

An Account of a Book

Hippocrate, Harveium, Jacobi Douglas (3 pages)

Experimenta Barometrica pro Varia Diversi Aeris Elasticitate Exploranda, in Variis Helvetiae Locis, Occasione Excursionis Alpinoe, Mense Sept. Anni Proeteriti Susceptoe. Ope Tubi 32 Digit. Parisin. Longi, 2 Linn. Diametro. à Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero, M. D. Math. P. Tigurino. & R. S. S.

Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero (4 pages)

Botanicum Hortense IV. Giving an Account of Divers Rare Plants, Observed the Last Summer A. D. 1714. in Several Curious Gardens about London and Particularly the Society of Apothecaries Physick-Garden at Chelsea

James Petiver (17 pages)

Observationes Coelestes Britannicae, Grenovici in Observatorio Regio Habitae, anno MDCCXIII

Anonymous (11 pages)

An Account of an Experiment Made by Dr. Brook Taylor Assisted by Mr. Hawkesbee, in Order to Discover the Law of the Magnetical Attraction

Mr. Hawkesbee, Brook Taylor (3 pages)

A Short Account of the Cause of the Saltness of the Ocean, and of the Several Lakes That Emit no Rivers; With a Proposal, by Help Thereof, to Discover the Age of the World. Produced before the Royal-Society by Edmund Halley, R. S. Secr.

Edmund Halley (6 pages)

Accounts of Books

Brook Taylor, Ralph Thoresby (13 pages)

Anonymous (2 pages)

Some Accounts of the Late Great Solar Eclipse on April 22. 1715 Mane. Communicated to the Royal-Society from Abroad

Anonymous (4 pages)

An Account of a Journey from the Port of Oratava in the Island of Tenerife to the Top of the Pike in That Island, in August Last; With Observations Thereon by Mr. J. Edens

J. Edens (10 pages)

Ventriculus Cordis Sinister Stupendae Magnitudinis, Lately Communicated to the Royal-Society by James Douglass, M. D. and R. S. S.

James Douglass (5 pages)

A Ready Description and Quadrature of a Curve of the Third Order, Resembling That Commonly Call'd the Foliate. Communicated by Mr. Abr. De Moivre, F. R. S.

Abr. De Moivre (5 pages)

An Easy Mechanical Way to Divide the Nautical Meridian Line in Mercator's Projection; With an Account of the Relation of the Same Meridian Line to the Curva Catenaria. By J. Perks, M. A.

J. Perks, Mercator (11 pages)

An Account of a Book

Ludovici Ferdinandi Marsilii, Brook Taylor (15 pages)

A Short History of the Several New-Stars That Have Appear'd within These 150 Years; With an Account of the Return of That in Collo Cygni, and of Its Continuance Observed This Year 1715

Anonymous (4 pages)

Botanicum Hortense IV. Continued from No. 345. by James Petiver, F. R. S.

James Petiver (13 pages)

An Extract of a Letter from Dr. Helvetius at Paris, to Monsieur Duyvenvoorde Embassador Extraordinary from the States-General, and by him Communicated to the Royal-Society

Dr. Helvetius (4 pages)

A Letter of Mr. Francis Nevile to the Right Reverend St. George Lord Bishop of Clogher, R. S. S. Giving an Account of Some Large Teeth Lately Dugg up in the North of Ireland, and by His Lordship Communicated to the Royal-Society

Francis Nevile (5 pages)

Remarks Upon the Aforesaid Letter and Teeth, by Thomas Molyneux, M. D. and R. S. S. Physician to the State in Ireland: Address'd to His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin

Thomas Molyneux (18 pages)

An Account of a Book

Guilhelmi Musgrave (5 pages)

An Account of Several Nebulae or Lucid Spots Like Clouds, Lately Discovered among the Fixt Stars by Help of the Telescope

Anonymous (4 pages)

Nova & Tuta Variolas Excitandi per Transplantationem Methodus, Nuper Inventa & in Usum Tracta: Per Jacobum Pylarinum, Venetum, M. D. & Reipublicae Venetae Apud Smyrnenses Nuper Consulem

Jacobum Pylarinum (8 pages)

Problematis Mathematicis Anglis Nuper Propositi Solutio Generalis

Anonymous (3 pages)

Some Late Curious Astronomical Observations Communicated by the Reverend and Learned Mr. James Pound, Rector of Wansted, and R. Soc. Soc.

James Pound (6 pages)

An Account of the Late Surprizing Appearance of the Lights Seen in the Air, on the Sixth of March Last; With an Attempt to Explain the Principal Phaenomena thereof; As It Was Laid before the Royal Society by Edmund Halley, J. V. D. Savilian Professor of Geom. Oxon, and Reg. Soc. Secr

Edmund Halley (27 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

A Description of the Phaenomenon of March 6. Last, as It Was Seen on the Ocean, Near the Coast of Spain. With an Account of the Return of the Same Sort of Appearance, on March 31, and April I. and 2. Following

Anonymous (4 pages)

An Account of Some Experiments of Light and Colours, Formerly Made by Sir Isaac Newton, and Mention'd in His Opticks, Lately Repeated before the Royal Society by J. T. Desaguliers, F. R. S.

Isaac Newton, J. T. Desaguliers (18 pages)

A Plain and Easy Experiment to Confirm Sir Isaac Newton's Doctrine of the Different Refrangibility of the Rays of Light. By the Same

J. T. Desaguliers (8 pages)

An Account of What Appear'd on Opening the Big-Belly'd Woman near Haman in Shropshire, Who Was Suppos'd to Have Continued Many Years with Child. Communicated by Dr. Hollings M.D. from Shrewsbury

Dr. Hollings (6 pages)

Methodus Singularis Quâ Solis Parallaxis Sive Distantia à Terra, ope Veneris intra Solem Conspiciendoe, Tuto Determinari Poterit: Proposita Coram Regia Societate ab Edm. Halleio J. U. D. Ejusdem Societatis Secretario

Edm. Halleio (15 pages)

An Account of the Cause of the Late Remarkable Appearance of the Planet Venus, Seen This Summer, for Many Days Together, in the Day Time. By Edm. Halley, R. S. Secr.

Edm. Halley (4 pages)

A Letter of the Reverend Mr. John Sackette, A. M. to Dr. Brook Taylor, Reg. Soc. Secr. Giving an Account of a Very Uncommon Sinking of the Earth, Near Folkestone in Kent

John Sackette (6 pages)

Miscellaneous Observations Made about Rome, Naples and Some Other Countries, in the Year 1683 and 1684; and Communicated to the Publisher by Tancred Robinson M. D. R. S. S.

Tancred Robinson (12 pages)

An Account of the Mischiefs Ensuing the Swallowing of the Stones of Bullace and Sloes. By the Reverend William Derham, Prebend of Windsor, and F. R. S.

William Derham (4 pages)

Observations and Experiments Relating to the Motion of the Sap in Vegetables. By Mr. Richard Bradley, R. S. S.

Richard Bradley (7 pages)

Some Microscopical Observations, and Curious Remarks on the Vegetation, and Exceeding Quick Propagation of Moldiness, on the Substance of a Melon. Communicated by the Same

Richard Bradley (5 pages)

The Art of Living under Water: Or, a Discourse concerning the Means of Furnishing Air at the Bottom of the Sea, in Any Ordinary Depths. By Edm. Halley, LL. D. Secretary to the Royal Society

Edm. Halley (9 pages)

Observations on the Glands in the Human Spleen; And on a Fracture in the upper Part of the Thigh-Bone. By J. Douglass, M.D. and R. S. S.

J. Douglass (5 pages)

An Account of a Book

Guilhelmo Musgrave (4 pages)

Observationes Nonnulloe Planetarum Primariorum, ac Speciatim Stelloe Cujusdam Fixoe Corporis Jovis Interpositu Occultatoe; A R. D. Jacobo Pound, R. S. Soc. Nuper Habitoe, & ab Eodem Cum Regia Societate Communicatae

R. D. Jacobo Pound (4 pages)

A Description of That Curious Natural Machine, the Wood-Peckers Tongue, etc. By Richard Waller Esq; Late Secretary to the Royal Society

Richard Waller (18 pages)

The Natural History and Description of the Phoenicopterus or Flamingo; With Two Views of the Head, and Three of the Tongue, of That Beautiful and Uncommon Bird. By James Douglass, M. D. Reg. Soc. S.

James Douglass (21 pages)

Anonymous (2 pages)

Back Matter

Anonymous (4 pages)

Articles