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 THE

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS

OF

Two Years, 1665 and 1666, beginning March 6. 1665.

and ending with February 1666; abbreviated in an



And also afterwards Digested into a more

NATURAL METHOD.

In the, the first Figure signifies the Number of the Tracts: the second, the Page, as it is remarked in the same.

Griculture, Heads of Inquiries concerning it, num. 5. pag. 91.

Air. The weight of it in all changes, by wind, weather, or whatever other influence observable by a standing Mercurial Balance, call'd a Baroscope, hinted in reference to M. Hooks: Micrography, n. 2. p. 31. applied to particulars by Dr. Beale, 9. 153. with additions, 10. 163. described with observables relating to an Earth-quake about Oxford by Dr. Wallis, 10. 167. Mr. Boyle’s remarks on the same, 11. 181. The Wheel-Baroscope improved and delineated by M. Hook, 13. 213. Another Balance of the Air contriv'd by M. Boyle, and call'd Statical, by which the former may be exactly stated and examin'd for many particular applications, 14. 231.

Anatome, see Flesh, Blood, Animals, Lungs, Petrification, Taste; item, Steno, Graef, Bellinue, Redi, in the Liste of Books.

Animals; one may live by the blood of another, the whole mass of his own blood being drawn out, and the blood of another infus'd in the mean time, 20. 353. See Bloods Transfusion. The Generation and Functions of Animals deduced by Mechanical principles, without recourse to a substantial form, 18. 325. See ''Honor. Fabri. & n''. 20. p. 365. See also Guarini.

Artificial Instruments or Engins. To weigh Air, see Baroscope, or rather Air. To discern drought or moisture of the Air, see Hygroscope. n. 2. p. 31. appliable in the observation of Tydes, 17. 300. Thermometers, to measure degrees of heat and cold, 2. 31. described, 10. 166. applied in the examination of Tydes, 17. 300. An Instrument for graduating Thermometers, to make them Standards of heat and cold, 2. 31. A new Engine for grinding any Optick Glasses of a Sphærical figure. 2. 31. To measure the Refractions of Liquors of all kinds, for establishing the Laws of Refraction, 2. 32. To break the hardest Rocks in Mines, 5. 82. To try for fresh waters at the bottom of the Seas, 9. 147. To find the greatest depths in the Sea, 9. 147. The Engin for fetching up fresh water defended by Explication, 13. 228. Huge Wheels, and other Engins for Mines, 2. 23. By the fall of water to blow wind, as with Bellows, 2. 25. Rh