Volume 3 (1668)

Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678)

73 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• An Introduction to the Fourth Year of These Tracts
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Account of the Invention of Grinding Optick and Burning-Glasses, of a Figure Not-Spherical, Produced before the Royal Society
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Account of Some Observations Made by Mr. Samuel Colepresse at and Nigh Plimouth, An. 1667. by Way of Answer to Some of the Quaeries Concerning Tides, Propos'd Numb. 17. and 18
  Samuel Colepresse (4 pages)
• Enquiries and Directions For the Ant-Iles, or Caribbe-Islands
  Anonymous (7 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  Gregorio Scoto (7 pages)
• The Squaring of the Hyperbola, by an Infinite Series of Rational Numbers, Together with Its Demonstration, by that Eminent Mathematician, the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Brouncker
  Viscount Brouncker (7 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written by the Honourable Consul of Danzick, the Heer Michael Behm, to the Excellent Johannes Heuelius, Consul of the Same City (by Whom It Was Communicated to the Publisher) Touching Some Chymical, Medicinal and Anatomical Particulars, Here Deliver'd in the Same Language It Was Written in
  Michael Behm (3 pages)
• Two Letters, Written by Dr. John Wallis to the Publisher; One, Concerning the Variety of the Annual High-Tides In Respect to Several Places: The Other, Concerning Some Mistakes of a Book Entitaled SPECIMINA MATHEMATICA Francisci Dulaurens, Especially Touching a Certain Probleme, Affirm'd to Have Been Proposed by Dr. Wallis to the Mathematicians of All Europe, for a Solution
  John Wallis (6 pages)
• A Letter Written to Dr. John Wallis by Mr. Henry Philips, Containing His Observations about the True Time of the Tides
  Henry Philips (6 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Regeneri de Graaf, W. Sengvverdius, Johannis van Horne (8 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of an Experiment, Concerning Deafness, Communicated to the R. Society, by That Worthy and Learned Divine Dr. William Holder, as Followeth
  William Holder (5 pages)
• A New Discovery Touching Vision
  Monsieur Justel (5 pages)
• A Letter, Written to the Publisher by the Learned and Experienced Dr Timothy Clarck One of His Majesties Physitians in Ordinary, Concerning Some Anatomical Inventions and Observations, Particularly the Origin of the Injection into Veins, the Transfusion of Bloud, and the Parts of Generation
  Timothy Clarck (14 pages)
• Some Observations Concerning the Comet, That Hath Lately Appear'd in Forain Parts, Communicated from Italy and Portugal
  Gio. Domen Cassini (3 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  John Wilkins, Jacobo Gregorio Scoto, Tho. Branker (9 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of a Controversy Betwixt Stephano de Angelis, Professor of the Mathematicks in Padua, and Joh. Baptista Riccioli Jesuite as It Was Communicated Out of Their Lately Printed Books, by That Learned Mathematician Mr. Jacob Gregory, a Fellow of the R. Society
  Jacob Gregory (7 pages)
• An Enlargement of the Observations, Formerly Publisht Numb. 27, Made and Generously Imparted by That Learn'd and Inquisitive Physitian, Dr. Stubbes
  Dr. Stubbes (12 pages)
• An Extract of a Printed Letter, Addressed to the Publisher, by M. Jean Denis, D. of Physick, and Prof. of the Mathematicks at Paris, Touching the Differences Risen about the Transfusion of Bloud
  M. Jean Denis (7 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  Jos. Glanvill, Abrahami Coulei Ancli (3 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• The Remainder of the Observations Made in the Formerly Mention'd Voyage to Jamaica, Publisht Numb. 36
  Anonymous (7 pages)
• A Curious and Exact Relation of a Sand-Floud, Which Hath Lately Overwhelmed a Great Tract of Land in the County of Suffolk; Together with an Account of the Check in Part Given to It; Communicated in an Obliging Letter to the Publisher, by That Worthy Gentleman Thomas Wright Esquire, Living upon the Place, and a Sufferer by That Deluge
  Thomas Wright (5 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written by D. B. to the Publisher, Concerning the Present Declination of the Magnetick Needle, and the Tydes, May 23. 1668
  D. B. (3 pages)
• Two Extracts of Letters, Concerning an Opticall Experiment, Conducive to a Decay'd Sight, Together with Some Notes, Referring to the Observations about a Blemish in Horse-Eyes, Publisht Numb. 32. A Remarque Touching the Greater
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• Of the Antiquity of the Transfusion of Bloud from One Animal to Another
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Mr. Gregories Answer to the Animadversions of Mr. Hugenius upon His Book, de Vera Circuli & Hyperbolae Quadratura; As They Were Publish'd in the Journal des Scavans of July 2. 1668
  Mr. Gregories (6 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  De Salnove, F. Stephano de Angelis, Michaelis Angeli Ricci, M de Cordemoy (6 pages)
• A Contrivance to Make the Picture of Any Thing Appear on a Wall, Cub-Board, or within a Picture-Frame, &c. in the Midst of a Light Room in the Day-Time; Or in the Night-Time in Any Room That is Enlightned with a Considerable Number of Candles; Devised and Communicated by the Ingenious Mr. Hook, as Follows
  Mr. Hook (4 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Lately Written by Mr. S. Colepresse, from Leiden, to the Publisher, about the Making of Counterfeited Opal, and the Recovery of the Art of Making Red-Glass
  S. Colepresse (3 pages)
• Some Animadversions, Written in a Letter by Dr. John Wallis, on a Printed Paper, Entitul'd Responsio Francisci du Laurens ad Epistolam D. Wallisii ad Cl. V. Oldenburgium Scriptam
  John Wallis (8 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  I. Wallis, R. de Graaf (16 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Note, Relating to the Formerly Publisht Narrative about Empty Tubes, Serving for a Decay'd Sight; Imparted by the Same Author in a Letter of August 10. 1668
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written from Dantzick to the Honourable R. Boyle, Containing the Success of Some Experiments of Infusing Medicines into Humane Veines
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Additional Answers to the Queries of Mines
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• Extracts of Two Letters; Whereof the One Written from Franckford on the Oder Concerning Osteocolla, and Some Other Observables in Those Parts: The Other Written by an Ingenious Person in England, about Some Effects of Antimony
  Johannes Christophorus Beckman (5 pages)
• A Second Letter of Dr. John Wallis on the Same Printed Paper of Francisus Du Laurens, Mention'd in the Next Foregoing Transactions
  John Wallis (6 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Rob. Anderson, Monsieur Cordemoy, Joh. Andrea Graba, J. Evelyn, Olai Borrichii, Roland Freart (11 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• The Variations of the Magnetick Needle Predicted for Many Yeares Following
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Extracts of Three Letters; One, Lately written by Monsieur De Bills, Touching the True Use of the Lymphatick Vessels; The Second, written by Mr. Stafford from the Bermudas, Concerning Tydes, Whales, Spermaceti, Strange Spiders-Webbs; Some Vegetables, and the Longevity of the Inhabitants of That Island; The Third, Written from Paris, about the Polishing of Telescopical Glasses by a Turn-Lathe; As Also the Making of an Extraordinary Burning-Glass at Milan
  Richard Stafford, Louys de Bills (7 pages)
• Observations Concerning Cochineel, Accompanied with Some Suggestions for Finding out and Preparing Such like Substances Out of Other Vegetables
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• Queries Concerning Vegetation, Especially the Motion of the Juyces of Vegetables, Communicated by Some Curious Persons
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• A Suggestion for Taking More Notice, Than Hath Been Done Formerly, of the Juyces of Trees, by Tapping Them
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• A Note about the Small Empty Tubes, Formerly Described
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written by Dr. Nathan. Fairfax to the Publisher, about a Bullet Voided by Urine
  Nathan Fairfax (4 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Francisci de le Boe Sylvii, Renati Des Cartes, Joh. Hevelii, Joh. Georgio Trumphio (9 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of Some Observations, Made This Present Year by Capt. Samuel Sturmy in Hong-Road within Four Miles of Bristol, in Answer to Some of the Queries Concerning the Tydes, in No. 17 & No. 18
  Samuel Sturmy (6 pages)
• En Extract of a Narrative, Made by an Ingenious English Gentleman, Now Residing at Sevill, Concerning His Voyage from Spain to Mexico, and of the Minerals of That Kingdom
  Anonymous (10 pages)
• An Account of Some Particulars, Referring to Those of Jamaica, Numb. 27. and 36, Communicated by Mr. Norwood the Younger, an Eye-Witness
  Mr. Norwood (3 pages)
• A Continuation of Dr. Wallis His Second Letter, Publish't in Numb. 39, to the Printed Paper of Mr. Du Laurens
  Dr. Wallis (9 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  A. Joh. Mayow (5 pages)
• The Description of a Way, Said to be New and Universal for Working Convex Spherical Glasses upon a Plain, for All Practicable Lengths, without Other Dishes or Concavc Moulds
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• Two Extracts out of the Italian Giornale de Letterati; The One, about Two Experiments of the Transfusion of Blood, made in Italy, the Other, Concerning a Microscope of a New Fashion, Discovering Animals Lesser Than Any Seen Hitherto
  Giornale de Letterati (4 pages)
• Testis Examinatus
  Vadlius Dathirius Bonglarus (4 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  Robert Boyle, W. Sympson (9 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Some Communications, Relating to the Queries about Vegetation, Publish'd in Numb. 40 of These Tracts
  Anonymous (11 pages)
• Answers To Some of the Queries, Which Were Recommended by Sir R. Moray to Sir Phil. Vernatti, President in Java Major, were Lift Un-Answered of Those That are Found in the History of the R. Society, p. 158, &c
  R. Moray (2 pages)
• A Summary Account of the General Laws of Motion by Dr. John Wallis, and Dr. Christopher Wren.
  Christopher Wren, John Wallis (6 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  R. P. Andreae Tacquet (10 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Continuation of the Answers to the Queries about Vegetation, Formerly Publisht
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• Additional Answers of Dr. Tonge to Some of the Queries about Vegetables, Printed in Numb. 43
  Dr. Tonge (3 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter of Mr. James Gregory to the Publisher, Containing Some Considerations of His, upon M. Hugens His Letter, Printed in Vindication of His Examen of the Book, Entitled Vera Circuli & Hyperbola Quadratura
  James Gregory (6 pages)
• An Extract of the Anatomical Account, Written and Left by the Famous Dr. Harvey, Concerning Thomas Parre, Who Died in London at the Age of 152 Years and 9 Moneths
  Dr. Harvey (4 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  Marcelli Malpighii, Joh. Dom. Cassini (7 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (7 pages)