Volume 4 (1669)

Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678)

68 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• Epistle Dedicatory
  Henry Oldenburg (3 pages)
• A Preface to This Fifth Year of the Transactions
  Anonymous (7 pages)
• The Description of an Instrument Invented Divers Years Ago by Dr. Christopher Wren, for Drawing the Out-Lines of Any Object in Perspective
  Christopher Wren (4 pages)
• An Observation of Saturne, Made at Paris, the 17th of August, 1668. at Hor. II 1/2 at Night, by M. Hugens and M. Picart; As 'tis Describ'd in the Journal Des Scavans of Febr.II, 1669
  M. Hugens, M. Picart (4 pages)
• An Extract of M. Dela Quintiny's Letter, Written to the Publisher in French Sometime Agoe, Concerning His Way of Ordering Melons; Now Communicated in English for the Satisfaction of Several Curious Melonists in England
  M. Dela Quintiny (5 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  Renati Franc. Slusii, Richardo Lower (11 pages)
• Promiscuous Additions, Made by Dr. Tong, to What Was Communicated by the Same in Numb. 43. and 44. Concerning Vegetation
  Dr. Tong (8 pages)
• Dr. John Beals Instances Promised in Numb. 42. and Intended to Shew the Correspondence of the Pith and Timber, with the Seed of the Plant; And That of the Bark or Sap in the Bark, with the Pulp of the Fruit, or Some Encompassing Coat, or Cod, Containing the Seed
  John Beals (5 pages)
• Extract of a Letter of M. Dela Quintinie, Giving Some Further Directions and Observations about Melons; Promised in a Manner in the Number Next Fore-Going
  M. Dela Quintinie (3 pages)
• A Summary Account of the Laws of Motion, Communicated by Mr. Christian Hugens in a Letter to the R. Society, and Since Printed in French in the Iournal Des Scavans of March 18, 1669. st. n.
  Christian Hugens (5 pages)
• An Account Concerning the Resolution of Equations in Numbers; Imparted Parted by Mr. John Collins
  John Collins (7 pages)
• An Account of Books
  Roberti Morison, Cl. Salmasii (4 pages)
• Instructions Concerning the Use of Pendulum-Watches, for Finding the Longitude at Sea
  Anonymous (20 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Written by Dr. Edward Brown from Vienna in Austria March 3. 1669. Concerning Two Parhelia's or Mocksuns, Lately Seen in Hungary
  Edward Brown (2 pages)
• A Relation of the Conferences Held at Paris in the Academy Royal for the Improvement of the Arts of Painting and Sculpture, as 'tis Found in the Iournal Des Scavans
  A. E. H. Love (5 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Rob. Anderson, Gulielm. Beveregium, William Holder (6 pages)
• Erratum
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Generatio Corporis Cylindroidis Hyperbolici, Elaborandis Lenti bus Hyperbolicis Accommodati, Auth. Christophoro Wren L L D. et Regiorum Aedisiciorum Praefecto, Nec non Soc. Regiae Sodali
  Christophoro Wren (4 pages)
• Experiments Concerning the Motion of the Sap in Trees, Made This Spring by Mr. Wiliugby, and Mr. Wray, Fellowes of the R. Society: And Communicated to the Publisher of the Inquiries Touching That Subject in Numb. 40
  Mr.Wray, Mr.Wiliugby (4 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Lately Written by Dr Edward Browne to the Publisher, Concerning Damps in the Mines of Hungary and Their Effects
  Edward Browne (4 pages)
• A Chronological Accompt of the Several Incendium's or Fires of Mount Aetna
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• An Account Concerning a Woman Having a Double Matrix; As the Publisher Hath Englished It Out of French, Lately Printed at Paris, Where the Body Was Opened
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Iohn Webb, Johanne Wallis, Balthezar Tellez (7 pages)
• Erratum
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Observations Concerning the Bath-Springs, Communicated by Mr. Joseph Glanvill, in a Letter to the Publisher Dated June 16. 1669: At the Bath
  Joseph Glanvill (7 pages)
• Extract of a Letter, Written by Mr. Muraltus of Zurich, to M. Haak, a Fellow of the R. Society, Concerning the Icy and Chrystallin Mountains of Helvetia, Call'd the Gletscher. English'd Out of Latin by the Publisher, as Follows
  Mr. Muraltus (3 pages)
• Some Observations Concerning Japan, Made by an Ingenious Person, That Hath Many Years Resided in That Country; as they Were Communicated in French by M. I; Whence they are Thus English'd by the Publisher; Who Some Months Agoe Accasion'd This Accompt by Some Queries, Sent to That Traveller
  M. I (5 pages)
• An Account from Paris Concerning a Great Metallin Burning Concave, and Some of the Most Considerable Effects of It: Communicated by Severall Persons upon the Place, Where Tryals Have Been Made of It
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Marc Malpigii, Robert Wittie, Johjac Ferguson (15 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Invention for Estimating the Weight of Water in Water with Ordinary Ballances and Weights
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Written by Mr. Joshua Childrey to the Publisher, Containing an Accompt of a Passage by Sea to the East-Indies, Communicated to Him by That Ingenious Travailor Mr. Richard Smithson Who Made Two Voyages into Those Parts
  Joshua Childrey, Richard Smithson (9 pages)
• Some Considerations Touching the Variety of Slate, together with a Computation of the Charges in Generall, for Covering Houses Therewith; By Mr. Sam. Coleprefs
  Sam Coleprefs (4 pages)
• Some Observations Concerning the Odd Turn of Some Shell-Snailes, and the Darting of Spiders, Made by an Ingenious Cantabrigian and by Way of Letter Communicated to Mr. I. Wray, Who Transmitted Them to the Publisher for the R. S.
  Anonymous (7 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Mart. Bogdani, Mich. Leyferi, Jac. Seidelii, Henr. a Moinichen, Th. Bartholini, P. Labbe (9 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Containing the Whole Process, Used in France for Making Sea-Salt by the Sun; Communicated to the Publisher in French, by an Ingenious Dr of Physick of That Nation, Residing Near the Chief Place, Where tis Practised; And Englished as Follows
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• An Answer to Some Inquiries Concerning the Eruptions of Mount Aetna, An. 1669. Communicated by Some Inquisitive English Merchants, Now Residing in Sicily
  Anonymous (8 pages)
• An Account of Two Books
  Dr Witties (8 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Particular Accompt of Divers Minerals, Cast up and Burned by the Late Fire of Mount Aetna; Mentioning the Several Specimina, Expected in Nu nb. 51, p. 1031. from Some Ingenious Marchants of England, Being upon th Place, and Since Come to the Hands of the Publisher, for the Repository of the R. Society
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• Some Observations Concerning the Organs of Generation, Made by Dr. Edmund King. a Fellow of the R. Society, and by Dr Regnerus De Grieff, Physitian in Holland; Which Later Occasioned the Publishing of the Former
  Edmund King, Regnerus de Grieff (8 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Written by the Learned Dr. William Darston, Physitian at Plimouth, to the Right Honorable the Lord Vice-Count Br Uncker as President of the R. Society; Concerning a Very Sudden and Excessive Swelling of a Womans Breasts
  William Darston, William Durston (6 pages)
• Some Reflexions Made on the Enlarged Accompt of Dr Witties Answer to Hydrologia Chymica in Numb 51. of these Tracts; Chiefly Concerning the Cause of the Sudden Loss of the Vertues of Mineral Waters
  Anonymous (7 pages)
• An Accompt of Two Books
  Michael Dary, M. Charas (5 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Description of Dr. Christopher Wren's Engin, Designed for Grinding Hyperbolical Glasses; As It Was in a Manner Promised Numb. 48. p. 962
  Christopher Wren (4 pages)
• Some Inquiries Concerning the Salt-Springs and the Way of Salt-Making at Nantwich in Cheshire; Answer'd by the Learned and Observing William Jackfon Dr. of Physick
  William Jackson (10 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Written to the Publisher from Plymouth Novem. 2. 1669. by William Durston Dr. of Physick; Concerning the Death of the Bigg-Breasted Woman (Discoursed of in Numb. 52.) Together with what Was thereupon Observed in Her Body
  William Darston, William Durston (3 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Erasmi Bartholini, Robert Boyle, John Evelyn (7 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Letter Written by an Intelligent and Worthy English Man from Paris, to a Considerable Member of the R. Society in London, Concerning Some Transactions there, Relating to the Experiment of the Transfusion of Blood
  William Darston, William Durston (4 pages)
• An Appendix to the Discourse Concerning the Salt-Work, Publisht in Numb. 53. Communicated by the Same Doctor Jackson, in a Letter of Novemb. 20. 1669
  Doctor Jackson (4 pages)
• A Relation Concerning the Quick-Silver Mines in Friuli; Communicated by Dr. Edward Brown; Co Firming as Well the Accompt Formerly Given of That Subject, in Numb. 2. of these Transactious, as Enlarging the Same with Some Additions
  Edward Brown (5 pages)
• An Accompt from the Same Dr. Brown Concerning an Vn-Common Lake, Called the Zirchnitzer-Sea, in Carniola
  Edward Brown (4 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Doct. Willis, Francois Bayle, Joh. Wallis, M. Charas (13 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Accompt of Such of the More Notable Celestial Phaenomena of the Year 1670, as Will be Conspicuous in the English Horizon; Written by the Learned and Industrious Mr. John Flamstead Novemb. 4 1669. and by Him Addressed and Recommended for Encouragement, to the Right Honorable, the Lord Viscount Brouncker, as President of the Royal Society
  John Flamstead (15 pages)
• Some Observations Concerning the Baroscope and Thermoscope, Made and Communicated by Doctor I. Wallis at Oxford, and Dr. I Beale at Yeovil in Somerset, Deliver'd Here according to the Several Dates, When they Were Imparted. Dr. Beale in Those Letters of His Dated Decemb.18. Decemb. 29. 1669. and Januar. 3. 16
  I Beale, I. Wallis (9 pages)
• An Accompt of a Small Tract, Entitaled, Thomaehobbes Quadratura Circuli, Cubatio Sphaera, Duplicatio Cubi, (Secundo Edita,) Denuo Refutata, Auth. Joh. Wallis. S. T. D. Geom, Prof. Saviltano. Oxoniae, 1669
  Joh Wallis (4 pages)
• Note
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Narrative of the Conjunction of the Two Seas, the Ocean and the Mediterranean, by a Channel, Cut out through Languedoc in France, by the Authority of the Most Christian King Louys XIV, and the Contrivance and Management of Monsicur Riquet: Englished by the Publisher Out of the French, Lately Sent to the Same from Paris, together with Printed Mapp of the Said Channel Here Contracted, and Explained
  Anonymous (13 pages)
• Some Confiderations Relating to D. Witties Defence of Scarborough Spaw (Abbreuiated in Numb. 51.) together with a Brief Accompt of a Less Considerable Salt-Spring in Somersetsh; And of a Medical Spring in Dorsetshire; By the Learned Dr. Highmore in a Letter to Dr J. Beale at Yeavil in Somersetsh
  Dr. Highmore (5 pages)
• The Causes of Mineral Springs Further Inquired: And the Strange and Secret Changes of Liquors Examined; By Dr. J. Beale, to the Publisher
  J. Beale (5 pages)
• Instances, Hints, and Applications, Relating to a Main Point, Solicited in the Preface to this 4th Vol; Concerning the Use May be Made of Vaults, Deep Wells, and Cold Conservatories, to Find out the Cause, or to Promote the Generation of Salt, Minerals, Metals, Christal; Gems, Stones of Divers Kinds; And Helps to Conserue Long; Or to Hasten Putrefaction, Fertility of Any Land, &c. by the Same D. Beale, in Another Letter to the Publisher
  D. Beale (8 pages)
• De Respirationis Usa Primario Diatriba, Auth. Malachia Thruston M. D. Cui Accedunt Animadversiones a Cl. Viro in Candem Conscripta, una Cum Responsionibus Authoris. Londini, Apud Joh. Martyn, Reg. Societ. Typographum ad Insigne Campane, 1670
  Malachia Thruston, Joh. Martyn (2 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (5 pages)