Volume 9 (1674)

Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678)

59 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (8 pages)
• Epistle Dedicatory
  Henry Oldenburg (5 pages)
• The Preface to the Tenth Year of These Tracts
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• A Letter, not Long Since Written to the Publisher by an Experienced Person Residing at Amsterdam, Containing a True Description of Nova Zembla, Together with an Intimation of the Advantage of Its Shape and Position
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• A Way of Extracting a Volatil Salt and Spirit Out of Vegetables; Intimated in Numb. 100. p. 7002; Experimented, and Imparted by the Learned and Intelligent Dr. Daniel Coxe, Fellow of the R. Society
  Daniel Coxe (6 pages)
• An Observation of Dr. Johnstons of Pomphret, Communicated by Him to Mr. Lister, and by Him Sent in a Letter to the Publisher, Concerning Some Stones of a Perfect Gold-Colour; Found in Animals
  Dr. Johnstons (3 pages)
• Extracts of Two Letters, Written to the Publisher from Hamborough by the Learned Christophorus Sandius, Concerning the Origin of Pearls
  Christophorus Sandius (3 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Robert Hook, Raymundus Mindererus (10 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Considerations of Mr. Leewenhoeck, Touching the Compression of the Air; Sent to the Publisher in His Letter of August 15. 1673
  Mr. Leewenhoeck (8 pages)
• More Microscopical Observations Made by the Same M. Leewenhoeck, and Promised in Numb. 97. of These Tracts; Communicated in His Letters of August 15. 1673 and of April 7. 1674
  M. Leewenhoeck (4 pages)
• Sir Samuel Morelands Undertaking for Raising of Water
  Samuel Morelands (2 pages)
• A Note about Some Unusual Diamonds
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Certain Phaenomenon, Seen by Monsieur Havelius, Feb. 5. 1674. St. No. not Far from Marienburg in Boroussia -about the Sun a Little before His Setting and the Moon's Conjunction, and the Sun's Eclipse, (Which Yet Was Not Seen by Him.)
  Monsieur Havelius (7 pages)
• An Extract of Monsieur Hevelius's Letter, Lately Written to the Publisher, Concerning the Famous Kepler's Manuscripts; Together with Some Considerations of His, about the Use of Telescopic Sights in Astronomical Observations: Delivered in the Same Language, Wherein 'Twas Written
  Anonymous (6 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Carew Reynel, John Smith, Johannis Schefferi (11 pages)
• An Advertisement about a New Size of Globes Rectified
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Some Observations and Experiments about Vitriol, Tending to Find Out the Nature of That Substance, and to Give Further Light in the Inquiry after the Principles and Properties of Other Minerals: Communicated by a Fellow of the R. Society, Who Maketh Use of Chymistry Chiefly as Subservient to Physiology
  Anonymous (8 pages)
• Some Inquiries and Suggestions Concerning Salt for Domestick Uses; and Concerning Sheep, to Preserve Them, and to Improve the Race of Sheep for Hardiness, and for the Finest Drapery. In a Letter from Doctor John Beal to the Publisher
  John Beal (7 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  John Smith, Davidis von der Beck, R. B. E. (13 pages)
• A Continuation of the Discourse Concerning Vitriol, Begun in Numb. 103. Shewing, that Vitriol is Usually Produced by Sulphur, Acting on, and Concoagulating with, a Metal; And Then Making Out, that Allom is Likewise the Result of the Said Sulphur; As Also Evincing, that Vitriol, Sulphur, and Allom, Do Agree in the Saline Principle; And Lastly, Declaring the Nature of the Salt in Brimstone, and Whence It is Derived
  Anonymous (9 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter of Monsieur Hevelius, Lately Written to the Publisher, Together with the Copy of a Letter of Dr. Wasmouth, Giving a Large Account of a New Astronomico-Chronological Work, Now by Him Preparing: Both Deliver'd in the Fame Language, Wherein They Were Written
  Monsieur Hevelius (5 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  J. Evelyn, Paulo Boccone, Nicholas Stevenson (12 pages)
• Extracts of Two Letters, the One from Monsieur Christian Hugens de Zulichem, Touching His Thoughts of Mr. Hook's Observations for Proving the Motion of the Earth; The Other from Seignior Cassini, Concerning the Same Argument
  Christian Hugens de Zulichem, Seignior Cassini (3 pages)
• Observations Concerning the Comet That Was Seen in Brasil, An. 1668. in March, by P. Valentin Estancel a Jesuit, and by Him Sent to Rome; Where They Were Printed in the 9th Italian Giornale de Letterati, Septemb. 31. 1673
  P. Valentin Estancel (4 pages)
• Brief Directions How to Tan Leather according to the New Invention of the Honourable Charles Howard of Norfolk, Experimented and Approved of by Divers of the Principal Tanners Using Leaden-Hall Market
  Charles Howard (6 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter of Mr. Martin Lister Concerning the First Part of His Tables of Snails, Together with Some Quaere's Relating to Those Insects, and the Tables Themselves; Sent to the Publisher from York, March 12. 1673
  Martin Lister (6 pages)
• A Relation Written to the Publisher from a Person of Great Veracity in Germany, Concerning an Aged Woman of 60 Years, Giving Suck to Her Grand-Child, &c
  Anonymous (3 pages)
• An Accompt of Two Books
  Joh. Mayow, Isbrando de Diemerbroeck (21 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Microscopical Observations from Mr. Leeuwenhoeck, about Blood, Milk, Bones, the Brain, Spitle, Cuticula, Sweat, Fatt, Teares; Communicated in Two Letters to the Publisher
  Mr. Leeuwenhoeck (12 pages)
• An Account of a Notable Case of a Dropsy Mistaken For Gravidation in a Young Woman; Communicated by a Learned and Inquifitive Physitian in Holland, Confiderably Enlarging the Observation Made of the Same Case by the Famous Dr. Tulpius, lib. 4. Obs. c. 48
  Dr. Tulpius (4 pages)
• An Account of Three Books
  Erasmi Bartholini, Joh. Martyn, Guil. Cole (12 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Observation Made by the Learned Dr. Sampson of a Man Anatomised, Whose Bowels Were Found Inverted
  Dr. Sampson (3 pages)
• An Account of the Two Sorts of the Helmontian Laudanum, Communicated to the Publisher by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Together with the Way of the Noble Baron F. M. van Helmont (Son to the Famous Johannes Baptista,) of Preparing His Laudanum
  Robert Boyle (4 pages)
• A Discourse Denying the Prae-Existence of Alcalizate or Fixed Salt in Any Subject, before It Were Exposed to the Action of the Fire: To Which is Added a Confirmation of an Assertion, Deliver'd in Numb. 101. p. 5. Section 6. of These Tracts, viz. That Alcalizate or Fixed Salts Extracted out of the Ashes of Vegetables, Do Not Differ from Each Other: The Same Likewise Affirmed of Volatil Salts and Vinous Spirits; by the Learned Dr. Daniel Coxe
  Daniel Coxe (10 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Erasmi Bartholini, Thomae Bartholini, Charles Drelincourt (11 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• AContinuation of Dr. Daniel Coxe's Discourse, Begunin Numb. 107. Touching the Identity of All Volatil Salts, and Vinous Spirits; Together with Two Surprizing Experiments Concerning Vegetable Salts, Perfectly Resembling the Shape of the Plants, Whence They Bad Been Obtained
  Daniel Coxe (15 pages)
• An Accompt of Some Books
  N. Stevenson, Alonso Barba, Willhelm Johan Muller, R. H. Edward (12 pages)
• Advertisement
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Relation Sent Novemb. 16. 1674. from a Very Credible and Ingenious Person, Mr. Samuel du Gard, Rector of Forton in Shropshire, to Dr. Ra. Bathurst Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and by Him Communicated to a Friend of His in London; Concerning a Strange Kind of Bleeding in a Little Child
  Samuel du Gard (3 pages)
• Some Queries and Answers, Relating to an Account Given in Numb. 54. by Dr. Edw. Brown, of a Strange Lake in Carniola, Call'd the Zirchnitz-Sea: The Queries Were Made by a Curious Person in France; The Answers Given by the Author of the Said Accompt
  Edw. Brown (5 pages)
• A Narrative of Some Observations Made upon Several Voyages, Undertaken to Find a Way for Sailing about the North to the East-Indies, and for Returning the Same Way from Hence Hither: Together with Instructions Given by the Dutch East-India Company For the Discovery of the Famous Land of Jesso Near Japan. To Which is Added a Relation of Sailing through the Northern America to the East-Indies. Englished by the Publisher Out of Dutch, Which Had Been Compos'd by Dirick Rembrantz van Nierop, and Printed at Amsterdam. 1674. in 4 degrees
  Dirick Rembrantz van Nierop (13 pages)
• An Accompt of Three Books
  Robert Hook, Alonfo Barba, William Petty, Edward Earl of Sandwich (9 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• A Letter of the Learned Franc. Linus, to a Friend of His in London, Animadverting upon Mr. Isaac Newton's Theory of Light and Colours, Formerly Printed in These Tracts
  Franc Linus (4 pages)
• Extracts of Two Letters, Written by Mr. Flamsteed to Mr. Collins; The One of Novemb. 25. 1624, Concerning an Instrument to Shew the Moon's True Place to a Minute or Two; as Also the Writer's Design of Correcting the Hitherto Assign'd Motions of the Sun: The Other, of Decemb. 14. 1674. Touching the Necessity of Making New Solar Numbers, Together With An Expedient for Making Trial, Whether the Refractions in Signor Cassini's Tables are Just
  Mr. Flamsteed (4 pages)
• Some Observations and Experiments Made, and in a Letter Communicated to the Publisher, for the R. Society, by the Learned and Inquisitive Mr. Martin Lister
  Martin Lister (8 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  R. P. Claudii Franc, Robert Boyle, Edward Sherburn, Mr. Lewis (12 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of What Bath Been Observed Here in London and Derby, by Mr. Hook, Mr. Flamstead, and Others, Concerning the Late Eclipse of the Moon, of Jan. 1. 164/5
  Mr. Flamstead, Mr. Hook, Bullialdus (3 pages)
• An Accompt of D. Paulus Biornonius, Residing in Iceland, Given to Some Philosophical Inquiries Concerning That Country, Formerly Recommended to Him from Hence: The Narrative being in Latine, 'tis Thus English'd by the Publisher
  D. Paulus Biornonius (4 pages)
• Divers Rural and Oeconomical Inquiries, Recommended to Observation and Tryal
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• An Extract of a Letter of Dr. J. Wallis, to M. Hevelius, from Oxford, Decemb. 31. 1673. Gratulatory for His Organographia; And Particularly Concerning Divisions by Diagonals, Lately Inserted in Mr. Hook's Animadversions on the First Part of the Machina Coelestis of the Honourable Joh. Hevelius; But so Faultly Printed, That It Was Thought Fit, at the Author's Desire, in His Letter to the Publisher, of Januar. 4. 1674/5 to be here Done More Correctedly
  J. Wallis (5 pages)
• An Account of Some Books
  Rich. Haynes, Robert Boyle, Abraham Munting (9 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (3 pages)