Volume 5 (1670)

Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678)

74 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• Epistle Dedicatory
  Henry Oldenburg (5 pages)
• A Preface To the Sixth Year of these Tracts
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written by John Winthrop Esq; Governour of Connecticut in New England, to the Publisher, Concerning Some Natural Curiosities of Those Parts, Especially a Very Strange and Very Curiously Contrived Fish, Sent for the Repository of the R. Society
  John Winthrop (5 pages)
• The Ingenious Reflexions Relating to Medical Springs Numb. 52, Considered. The Palpable Indications of Some Healing Springs Remarked; With an Account of Some Such Springs in England, Which do Confirm the Indications; And of Others Obiter; By Dr. J. Beale to the Publisher: Which Discourses Were in N. 56. Omitted for Want of Sufficient Room, not without Injury to the Author, Who Had Designed These Communications for Another Prop, Specifying by Manifest Observations, How Terrestrial Steames May be the Generative Cause, Both of Minerals and Metals, and of All the Peculiarities of Springs: And Should Have Immediately Followed p. 1134
  J. Beale (12 pages)
• Some Observations, Directions and Inquiries Concerning the Motion of Sap in Trees, in Pursuance of What Was Formerly Begun Therein, about the Latter End of 1668. and the Next Following Spring, by Dr Ezerel Tonge, and Francis Willoughby Esq
  Francis Willoughby, Ezerel Tonge (4 pages)
• Some Considerations of Mr. Nic. Mercator, Concerning the Geometrick and Direct Method of Signior Cassini for Finding the Apogees, Excentricities, and Anomalies of the Planets; As That was Printed in the Journal des Scavans of Septemb. 2. 1669: Which Considerations are Here Delivered in the Latine Tongue, Wherein they Were Written by the Author, as Chiefly Regarding the Learn'd in Astronomy, viz. Clarissimi Cassini Methodus Investigandi Apogea, Excentricitates & Anomalias Planetarum, Breviter Exposita & Demonstrata
  Nic. Mercator (10 pages)
• An Account of Three Books
  Francisco Redi, Tho. Willis, Joh Zwelfer (5 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Written by Monsieur de Martel of Montauban to the Publisher, Concerning a Way for the Prolongation of Humane Life, together with Some Observations Made in the Southern Parts of France, English'd as Follows
  Monsieur de Martel (7 pages)
• An Observation of M. Adrian Azout, a French Philosopher, Made in Rome (Where He Now is) about the Beginning of This Year 1670. Concerning the Declination of the Magnet: Out of an Italian Printed Paper, English'd by the Publisher, as Follows
  M. Adrian Azout (5 pages)
• An Extract of an Italian Letter Written from Venice by Signor Jacomo Grandi, to an Acquaintance of His in London, Concerning Some Anatomical Observations, and Two Odd Births: English'd by the Publisher, as Follows
  Jacomo Grandi (3 pages)
• Some Directions and Inquiries with Their Answers, Concerning the Mines, Minerals, Baths, &c. of Hungary, Transylvania, Austria, and Other Countries Neighbouring to Those
  Anonymous (12 pages)
• Some Inquiries Relating Particularly to the Bleeding of Walnuts; Suggested by Dr. Ezerel Tonge in a Letter of His to the Publisher, of March 22. 1670
  Ezerel Tonge (4 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter Written by Francis Willoughby Esquire to the Publisher, Containing Some Observations of His Made on Some Sycamore-Trees, the Black-Poplar, and the Walnut: As Also His Thoughts about the Dwarf-Oaks, and the Stellar Fish Described in Numb. 57
  Francis Willoughby (4 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Nicolai Hobokeni, Joh. Sig. Elsholtii, Joh. Ludov. Gansii (5 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• The Answer of Monsieur Mariotte to Monsieur Pecquet, about the Opinion, That the Choroeides is the Principal Organ of Sight; Communicated to the Publisher from Paris, and Englished as Follows
  Monsieur Mariotte (14 pages)
• An Accompt Given by Doctor Edward Brown, Concerning the Copper-Mine at Herrn-Ground in Hungary
  Edward Brown (4 pages)
• An Accompt Concerning the Baths of Austria and Hungary; as Also Some Stone-Quarrries, Talcum Rocks, &c. in Those Parts: By the Same Hand
  Edward Brown (9 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Ludov de Beaufort, Joh. Amerpoel (5 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Letter of John Evelyn Esq;, to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Brouncker, Chancellor to Her Majesty and President to the R. Society & c. Concerning the Spanish Sembrador or New Engin for Ploughing, and Equal Sowing all Sorts of Grain, and Harrowing, at Once; by Which a Great Quantity of Seed-Corn is Saved, and a Rich Increase Yearly Gained, together with a Description of the Contrivance and Uses of This Engin, English't Out of Spanish, and Lately Presented to the R. Society
  John Evelyn (13 pages)
• An Account of the Observation, Made by the Philosophical Academy at Paris, May 12 1667 about 9. of the Clock in the Morning, of an Halo or Circle about the Sun; together with a Discourse of M Hugens de Zulechem, Concerning the Cause of these Meteors, as Also That of Parelia's or Mock Sums. Englished Out of French by the Publisher, to Whom It Was Sent but Lately from the Worthy Author of the Said Discourse
  M. Hugens de Zulechem (13 pages)
• A Discourse of Dr R. Wittie, Relating to the Notes of Dr Foot in Numb. 52. and to Those of Dr. Highmore in Numb. 56. of These Tracts; Concerning Mineral Waters, and Extracts Made Out of Them: Communicated to the Publisher, by Way of Letter
  R. Wittie (10 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Hermanni Grube, Franc. Travagini, Johannis Danielis Majoris, R. P. Michaele Seneschallo (5 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Letter of Dr. John Wallis to Robert Boyle Esq, Concerning the Said Doctor's Essay of Teaching a Person Dumb and Deaf to Speak, and to Understand a Language; together with the Success Thereof: Which Letter though Written Many Years Since, Was but Lately Obtain'd to be Inserted Here, It Being Esteemed Very Well Worth to be Preserv'd and Communicated for Publick Use
  John Wallis (14 pages)
• A Relation, Concerning the Sal-Gemme-Mines in Poland; Communicated by a Curious Gentleman of Germany, Who, Some Years since, Descended Himself into Those Mines, to the Depth of 200 Fathoms, and Was Led about in Them for the Space of Three Hours
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• The Way of Making Vinegar in France, Communicated to the Publisher, by an Ingenious Physitian of That Nation, Living at a Place, Where Much of It is Made
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• So Far the First Communication Concerning This Matter: In Which Occurring Several Particulars, Requiring Further Information, and they Being Sent to the Author, He Was Pleased to Return What Follows
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Alexandri Marchetti, Johanne Wallis, William Clarke (7 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• New Pneumatical Experiments about Respiration. These Experiments, Made by That Indefatigable Benefactour to Philosophy, the Honourable Robert Boyle in Order to Bring Some More Light to the Doctrine of Respiration, as Well as to Minister Occasion to Inquisitive Naturalists to Make Farther Researches into the Same, Were by Their Noble Author Communicated to the Publisher of these Papers; Who Esteem'd It More Convenient to Make Them a Part of these Tracts (They Taking up the Room but of a Few Sheets) than to Publish Them Any Other Way
  Anonymous (22 pages)
• An Accompt of Three Books
  William Sympson, M. Des Fourneillis, Rob. Sheringhamo, Francis Bayle (4 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• [New Pneumatical Experiments about Respiration. Continued]
  Anonymous (23 pages)
• An Accompt of Two Books
  Robert Boyle, Johannis Raji (3 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written by Monsteur Hevelius to the Publisher, from Dantzick, Ju'y 5.1670. Containing Chiefly a Late Observation of the Variation of the Magnetick Needle; together with an Account of Some Other Curiosities in Those Parts:Englished, as Follows
  Monsieur Hevelius (4 pages)
• A Letter of Mr. Joseph Childrey to the Right Reverend Seth Lord Bishop of Sarum, Containing Some Animaversions upon the Reverend Dr. John Wallis's Hypothesis about the Flux and Reflux of the Sea, Publish't No. 16. of These Tracts
  Joseph Childrey (9 pages)
• Dr. Wallis's Answer to the Foregoing Animadversions, Directed in a Letter to the Publisher, March 19. 1662/70
  Dr. Wallis (8 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Johannis Swammerdani, Francisco Bayle, M. Tenison, Francisci Josephi Burrhi (10 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written to the Publisher Out of France, Octob. 29. 1670. Intimating Two New Anatomical Discoveries
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• A Narrative of Divers Odd Effects of a Dreadful Thunder-Clap, at Stralfund in Pomerania, 19/29 June 1670;Taken Out of a Relation,There Printed by Authority in High Dutch
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter of M Hevelius, Written to the Publisher from Dantzick, August 17/27 1670. Concerning a New Star, Lately Discover'd in the Constellation of the Swan, together with the Present Appearance of the Planet Saturn
  M. Hevelius (7 pages)
• An Accompt from Paris,in Two Letters to the Publisher, Dated July 5. and July 19. 1670. Concerning the Earlier Discovery of the Same New Star, Which is Described in the Precedent Letter
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Some Communications, Confirming the Present Appearance of the Ring about Saturn, by M. Hugens de Zulechem and Mr. Hook
  M. Hugens de Zulechem, Mr. Hook (3 pages)
• An Extract Out of a Lately Printed Epistolary Address, Made to the G. Duke of Toscany Touching Some Anatomical Engagements, of Laur. Bellini, Ord. Anat. Prof. at Pisa
  Laur. Bellini (4 pages)
• A Narrative of a Monstrous Birth in Plymouth, Octob. 22. 1670; Together with the Anatomical Observations, Taken thereupon by William Durfton Doctor in Physick, and Communicated to Dr. Tim. Clerk
  William Durfton (5 pages)
• Observations on Insects, Lodging Themselves in Old Willows, Produced Before the Royal Society by Dr. Edmund King, July 14. 1670
  Edmund King (3 pages)
• Extracts of Two Letters, Written by Francis Willoughby Esquire, to the Publisher, from Astrop, August 19th and from Midleton, Sept. 2d. 1670 Containing His Observations on the Insects and Cartrages, Described in the Precedent Accompt
  Francis Willoughby (5 pages)
• A Confirmation of What Was Formerly Printed in Numb. 50. of these Tracts, about the Manner of Spiders Projecting Their Threds; Communicated by Mr. John Wray, to the Publisher
  John Wray (5 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  J. B. du Hamel, Francisco Wilhelmo, Pietro M. Cavina, Donato Rosetti (12 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Extracts of Two Letters, Written by the Ingenious Mr. Adam Martindale to the Publisher from Rotherton in Cheshire, Novemb. 12. and Nov. 26. 1670. Concerning the Discovery of a Rock of Natural Salt in That Country
  Adam Martindale (4 pages)
• An Accompt Given by a Florentin Patrician, Call'd Jo. Battista Donius, Concerning a Way of Restoring the Salubrity of the Country about Rome: Extracted Out of the Ninth Italian Giornale de Letterati; And English't as Follows
  Jo. Battista Donius (4 pages)
• An Experiment Concerning the Progress of Artificial Conglaciation, and the Remarkable Accidents, therein Observed by the Florentin Philosophers, and Publish't in Their Saggi di Naturali Esperienzep. 147; Now English't for the Further Tryal and Observation of the Curious Here
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter of Monsieur Hevelius, Concerning His Observations of the Moon's Eclipse, on Septemb. 29. st.n. 1670. and the Conjunction of Venus and the Moon, on the 11th of Octob. st. n. 1670; as Also Some Remarks about the New Star Near the Beak of the Swan, and That Other in the Neck of the Whale: Together with Some Other Particulars of a Philos. Nature. Here Deliver'd in the Same Tongue, in Which It Was Written
  Monsieur Hevelius (13 pages)
• Accompt of Three Books
  Francesco Redi, Roberto Boyle, John Webster (6 pages)
• A Note
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Accompt of Sundry Experiments Made and Communicated by That Learn'd Mathematician, Dr. Erasmus Bartholin, upon a Chrystal-Like Body, Sent to Him Out of Island
  Erasmus Bartholin (11 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter from a Learned French Gentleman, Concerning a Way of Making Sea-Water Sweet
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Extract of Another Letter Written by the Same, Concerning Two Experiments Made for Finding Another Passage of the Urine, Besides the Known One; as Also Some Circumstances Relating to the Precedent Invention of Making Sea-Water Potable
  Monsieur Hauton (3 pages)
• A Relation of the Abundance of Wood, Found under Ground in Lincolnshire; Communicated by a Friend, Well Acquainted with That Country
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• A Description of the Stone- Quarry Near Maestrich; Communicated by an Observing Person, Conversant in That Country
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Robert Boyle, Aegidio Francisco, Antonii Molinetti, Honor. Fabry (12 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Extract of a Letter, Written by Mr. John Wray to the Publisher January 13. 1670. Concerning Some Un-Common Observations and Experiments Made with an Acid Juyce to be Found in Ants
  John Wray (5 pages)
• Letter Written by Mr. Martin Lister to the Publisher, Jannuar. 25. 1670/71, Relating Partly to the Same Argument with That of the Former Letter, and Directing to Another Insect, That is Like to Yield an Acid Liquor; Partly to the Bleeding of the Sycamore
  Martin Lister (4 pages)
• An Extract of Another Letter Written by the Same Gentleman, Mr. Wray, to the Publisher, of Febr. 8th. 1670/71 Containing Some Experiments about the Bleeding of the Sycamore, and Other Trees; As Also, a Considerable Note of Pliny about the Mulberry Tree
  <prefix>Mr.</prefix> Wray, Jun. (3 pages)
• Some Observations Concerning the Variety of the Running of Sapin Trees, Compared with a Weather Glass; Made in April, 1670. together with Some Ways of Ordering Birch Water: By Dr. Ez. Tonge
  Ez. Tonge (9 pages)
• An Accompt of Two Books
  Academiae Naturae Curiosorum, Honorato Fabri (8 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (4 pages)