Volume 6 (1671)

Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678)

78 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (11 pages)
• Epistle Dedicatory
  Henry Oldenburg (3 pages)
• A Preface to This Seventh Years of These Transactions
  Anonymous (8 pages)
• A Solution, Given by Mr. John Collins of a Chorographical Probleme, Proposed by Richard Townley Esq. Who Doubtless Hath Solved the Same Otherwise
  John Collins (6 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Mineral Observations Touching the Mines of Cornwal and Devon; Wherein is Described the Art of Trayning a Load; The Art and Manner of Digging the Ore; And the Way of Dressing and of Blowing Tin: Communicated by an Inquisitive Person, That Was Much Conversant in Those Mines
  Anonymous (21 pages)
• An Accompt of Two Books
  Joh. Henr. Meibomii (6 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Extracts of Several Letters, Containing Sundry Inquiries and Experiments about the Bleeding of Trees, Especially by the Warmth of the Fire; The Circulation of Sap in Trees; The Consistence and Quantity of Sap in the Respective Parts of a Vegetable; And the Communication of One Part of a Plant with Another, In Relation to the Ascent and Descent of Sap, &c.
  Martin Lister, Francis Willoughby (11 pages)
• Some Communications, about an Early Swarm of Bees, as Also Concerning Cyder; Descent of Sap; The Season of Transplanting Vegetables: Sent to the Publisher Out of Herefordshire by That Intelligent Gentleman, Richard Reed Esq;, In a Letter Dated March 14. 1670/1 at Lugwardine
  Richard Reed (6 pages)
• Some Observations, Touching Colours, in Order to the Increase of Dyes, and the Eixation of Colours; Generously Imparted by the Author of the Four Above-Mention'd Letters, Who Annexed Them to That of Februar. 15. 1670
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Antonio le Grand, Theodori Kerckringii, Jaques Rohault, J. Martin (8 pages)
• Note
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Some Considerations upon Mr. Reeds Letter; Printed in N.70. Sheming, in what Sense the Sap May be Said to Descend, and to Circulate in Plants; and the Graft to Communicate with the Stock: At Also, what Choice of Apples for the Delicacy of the Liquor in Peculiar Seasons; and for Easie and Speedy Propagation: Pears for Some Lands Proper; Their Choice for Manisold Uses, Especially for Pleasant, or for Lasting Liquor; and How to be Planted, and Order'd for the Best Aduantage. The Best Season for Transplantation. An Apiary or Discipline of Bees, Recommended for Publick Benefit; All by Dr. John Beal in a Letter to the Publisher of May 13. 1671
  John Beal (7 pages)
• An Extract of a Latin Letter, Written by the Learned Signior Malpighi to the Publisher, Concerning Some Anatomical Observations, about the Structure of the Lungs of Froggs, Tortoises, & c. and Perfecter Animals; As Also the Texture of the Spleen, & c.
  Signior Malpighi (3 pages)
• A Narrative of Some Observations Lately Made by Certain Missionaries in the Upper Egypt; Communicated in a Letter Written from Cairo the Sixth of Januar. 1670
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• Extract of a French Letter, Written by F. Jaques Paul Babin, a Jessuit, to F. Ignatius Bardy of the Same Company, from Negropont, May 15.1670; And Lately Communicated by the Learned Jesuit Bertet to a Friend of His in London; Concerning the Flux of the Euripus
  Bertet, F. Jaques Paul Babin (4 pages)
• A Relation of Two Considerable Hurricans, Happened in Northampton-Shire, not above Four Miles Distance from One Another, within tho Compass of Less then Twelve Calendar-Months: Communicated by Mr. John Templer of Braybrook to a Friend of His in London
  John Templer (4 pages)
• A Narrative of Two Petrifications in Humane Bodies, Communicated by Mr. Christoph. Kirkby in a Letter from Dantzick, Dated April 8. 1671
  Christoph Kirkby, Dantzick (3 pages)
• An Accompt of Four Books
  Theod Kerckringii, Johanne Ott (9 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Curious Relation, Taken out the Third Venetian Journal de Letterati, of March 15. 1671; Of a Substance Found in Great Quantities in Some Mines of Italy; Out of Which is Made a Kind of Incombustible Both Skin, Paper, and Candle Week, together with the Experiments Made Therewith
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• Some Experiments of Signor Carolo Rinaldini, Philosopher and Mathematician in the University of Padoua; Shewing the Difference of Ice Made without Air, from That Which is Produced with Air: In the Same Venetian Journal
  Carolo Rinaldini (3 pages)
• Extracts of Three Letters, One, Concerning Some Philosophical Inquiries about Spiders, together with a Table of 33 Sorts of Spiders to be Found in England; as Also of a Kind of Viviparous Fly: The Second, about an Insect Feeding upon Henbain, and Thereby Qualifying in Its Body the Horrid Smell of That Plant, and Altering It to an Aromatical and Agreeable One: The Third, Containing Some Observations of Glow-Worms
  Martyn Lister, John Templer (10 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  C. G. Bacheti, Robert Boyle, H. M. Cantabrigiensem, Nicolaus Steno, Moses Pitt, Thoma Hobbes, D. P. de Fermat (13 pages)
• An Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Table Shewing, to What Degree Air is Compressible in Sea-Water, at the Depth of Any Number of Feet from 1. to 33. Feet or 5 1/2 Fathom, and Thence for Any Number of 5 1/2 Fathoms, or 33. Feet, to 324 1/2 Fathoms or 1947 Feet
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• Extracts of Two Letters from Mr, Martin Lister to the Publisher, of June 14. 1671. and July 5. 1671. Concerning the Kind of Insect, Batched of the English Kermes, Formerly Taken Notice of and Described by the Same in Numb. 71. p.2164; as Also the Use of these Purple Insect: Husks for Tinging, Together with a Comparison Made of This English Purple Kermes with the Scarlet-Kermes of the Shops
  Martin Lister (3 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written to the Publisher by the Excellent Johannes Hevelius, Concerning, His Further Observations of the New Star Near the Beak of the Swan; To be Compared with What Was Formerly Published of the Same Argument in Numb. 65. and Numb. 66
  Johannes Hevelius (3 pages)
• Another Accompt of the Same Subject, Englished Out of the French Journal Des Scavans, Printed at Paris the 22th of June 1671
  Johannes Hevelius (6 pages)
• An Answer of Dr. Wallis to Mr. Hobbes's Rosetum Geometricum in a Letter to a Friend in London, Dated July 16. 1671
  Johannes Wallis (9 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Caroli de la Font, Joh. Alphonsi Borelli, Edvardo Pocokio, Francisci de le Boe Sylvii, Richardo Lower, Joh. Martyn, Gothofredo Guilielmo Leibnitio (6 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Intimation of Divers Philosophical Particulars, Now Undertaken and Consider'd by Several Ingenious and Learned Men; Here Inserted to Excite Others to Joyn with Them in the Same or the Like Attempts and Observations
  Signior Cassini (5 pages)
• The Extract of a Letter Written by Mr. John Ray to the Publisher from Midleton, July 3. 1671. Concerning Spontaneous Generation; As Also Some Insects Smelling of Musk
  John Ray (3 pages)
• Another Extract of a Letter Written from Midleton in Warwickshire to the Publisher July 10th. by Francis Willughby Esquire; About the Hatching of a Kind of Bee, Lodged in Old Willows
  Francis Willughby (2 pages)
• A Further Accompt of the Stellar Fifth; Formerly Described in Numb. 57. p. 1153; With the Addition of Some Other Curiosities
  Stellar Fish (5 pages)
• An Extract Out of the 3d and 7th Venetian Giornale De Letterati, Concerning the Formation of Faetus's
  Venetian Giornale de Letterati (5 pages)
• Dr. Wallis's Opinion Concerning the Hypothesis Physica Nova of Dr. Leibnitius, Promised in Numb. 73. and Here Inserted in the Same Tongue, Wherein It Was Written to the Publisher, April. 7. 1671
  Johannes Wallis (6 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Matth. Tillingio, Joh. Joachimi Becheri, Joh. Michael Fehr, Theoph Gale (10 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Supplement to What Was Publish't N. 73. of the Compression of Air under Water
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• An Answer to Four Papers of Mr. Hobs, Lately Published in the Months of August, and This Present September, 1671
  Anonymous (12 pages)
• New Observations of Spots in the Sun; Made at the Royal Academy of Paris,the 11, 12 and 13th of August 1671; And English't Out of the French,as Follows
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• A Considerable Accompt Touching Vegetable Excrescencies, Given by That Learned and Observing Gentleman, Mr. Martin Lister, in a Letter to the Publisher, of July 17. 1671. from York
  Martin Lister (5 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Joh. Alph Borelli, Socio Trin, M. Bernier, Joh Dunsmore (13 pages)
• An Advertisement Necessary to be Given to the Readers of the Latin Version, Made by Mr. Sterpin at Copenhagen, of the Philosophical Tranfactions of A. 1669; Printed at Franckfurt on the Main by Dan. Pauli, A. 1671
  Mr. Sterpin (3 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Observations, Made by Several Astronomers, Domestic and Forrain, of the Late Eclipse of the Moon, on Septemb. 8. 1671; Here Delivered in the Languages, in Which they Were Communicated
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Account of the Dissection of a Porpess, Promised Numb. 74; Made, and Communicated in a Letter of Sept. 12 1671, by the Learned Mr. John Ray, Having therein Observ'd Some Things Omitted by Rondeletius
  John Ray (7 pages)
• A Letter of Francis Willoughby Esquire, of August 24, 1671, Containing Some Considerable Observations about That Kind of Wasps, Call'd Vespae Ichneumones; Especially Their Several Ways of Breeding, and among Them, That Odd Way of Laying Their Eggs in the Bodies of Caterpillars, & c.
  Francis Willoughby (4 pages)
• A Letter of Mr. Martin Lister, Written at York August 25 1671, Confirming the Observation in No 74. about Musk Sented Insects; Adding Some Notes upon D. Swammerdam's Book of Insects, and on That of M. Steno Concerning Petrify'd Shell
  Martin Lister (5 pages)
• Another Letter, Written of the Same Gentleman, from York Sept. 13, 1671. Enlarging His Former Communications in Numb. 75 about Vegetable Excrescencies, and Ichneumon-Worms
  Martin Lister (3 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Danielis Ludovici, Johannis Wallisii, Joh. Bapt. Sylvatici (10 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Observations Made by Mr. Hook, of Some Spots in the Sun, Return'd after they Had Passed Over the Upper Hemi Sphere of the Sun Which is Bid from Us; According as Was Predicted
  Mr. Hook (9 pages)
• Some Additions of Mr. Lyfter to His Former Communications about Vegetable Excrescencies, and Ichneumon Wasps; Together with an Inquiry Concerning Tarantula's, and a Discovery of Another Musk-Sented Insect: Transmitted to the Publisher from York in Two Letters, of Octob. 16. and 28. 1671
  Mr. Lyfter (5 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  D. Friderico Lachmund, Monsieur Bourdelot, N. Witsen, Rich Lower (14 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• The Observations of the Spots of the Sun, Made at the Royal Academy at Paris, Continued; And English't Out of French
  Anonymous (8 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written at Paris Novemb. 7. 1671. (St.n.) by Monsieur Christian Hugens de Zulichem to the Publisher; Concerning the Observations of Saturn Mentioned in the Next Foregoing Discourse: English't Out of French
  Hugens de Zulichem (2 pages)
• An Extract of Two Letters of M. Hevelius, of June 19. and of Octob. 7. 1671; Containing Some of His Late Celestial Observations, Touching Saturn Obscur'd by the Moon; A Lunar Eclipse; And an Occultation of the First of the Satellits of Jupiter by the Shadow of This Planet; a Transit of Jupiter and the Moon; And a Late Appearance of Saturn: All Here Delever'd in the Language, Wherein the Author Communicated It
  M. Hevelius (9 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter, Written from Hamburg Novemb. 1. 1671. by the Learned Doctor Fogelius to the Publisher, Concerning the Spots of the Sun Returned; And the Last Eclipse of the Moon; Here Communicated Also in the Same Language, in Which It Was Written
  Doctor Fogelius (3 pages)
• Extracts of Two Letters Written from Darby, Novemb. 21. and Decemb 2. 1671. by Mr. John Flamstead to the Publisher, Touching Some Late Appearances of Saturn
  John Flamstead (2 pages)
• Some Further Observations of Mr. John Templer, about the Shining of Glow-Worms
  John Templer (3 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Cherubin d' Orleans, mesme Autheur, Nehemiah Grew, Sieur Petit (15 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Letter of Mr. Martyn Lister, Written to the Publisher from York, Januar. 10. 1671/2, Containing an Ingenious Account of Veins by Him Observ'd in Plants, Analogous to Human Veins
  Martyn Lister (5 pages)
• An Account of the Speaking Trumpet, as It Hath Been Contrived and Published by Sir Sam. Moreland Knight and Baronet; Together with Its Uses Both at Sea and Land. Printed at London An. 1671
  Sam. Moreland (4 pages)
• An Observation and Experiment Concerning a Mineral Balsom, Found in a Mine of Italy by Signior Marc-Antonio Castagna; Inserted in the 7th. Giornale Veneto de Letterati of June 22. 1671, and Thence English'd as Follows
  Marc-Antonio Castagna (2 pages)
• Two Observations Made by P. Francesco Lana, the Author of the Prodromus Premised to Arte Maestra, Concerning Some of the Effects of the Burning Concave of Lions; And Also an Odd Salt Extracted out of a Metallic Substance: Taken Out of the Same Venetian Journal
  P. Francesco Lana (2 pages)
• De Lunae ad Pleiadas Reliquas Applicationibus, Anno 1672 Observandis, Promissa Appendicula Johannis Flamsteed
  Johannis Flamsteed (4 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Marci Meibomii, Regnerus de Graaf, Franc. Maria Grimaldo, P. Ignace Gaston Pardies (12 pages)
• A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge; Containing His New Theory about Light and Colors: Sent by the Author to the Publisher from Cambridge, Febr. 6. 1671/72; In Order to be Communicated to the R. Society
  Isaac Newton (14 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  Philippus Baldaeus, J. Martyn (9 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (4 pages)