Lectiones Cutlerianæ, or, A collection of lectures, physical, mechanical, geographical, & astronomical made before the Royal Society on several occasions at Gresham Colledge : to which are added divers miscellaneous discourses / by Robert Hooke ...

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Lectiones Cutlerianæ, or, A collection of lectures, physical, mechanical, geographical, & astronomical made before the Royal Society on several occasions at Gresham Colledge : to which are added divers miscellaneous discourses / by Robert Hooke ...

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Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.

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London :: Printed for John Martyn ...,

1679.

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Contents

• title page
• The Titles of the several TRACTS.
• title page
• TO THE TRULY HONORABLE Sir John Cutler KNIGHT and BARONET, My Worthy PATRON.
• READER,
• AN ATTEMPT To prove the Motion of the EARTH BY OBSERVATIONS.
• colophon
• title page
• THE CONTENTS.
• SOME ANIMADVERSIONS On the first Part of HEVELIƲS His MACHINA COELESTIS, &c.
• Errata.
• title page
• A DESCRIPTION OF HELIOSCOPES, And some other INSTRUMENTS.
  • Appendix. Concerning the Eclipse of the Moon, observed in London.
  • Postscript.
  • illustration
• title page
• LAMPAS: OR, A DESCRIPTION OF SOME Mechanical Improvements OF LAMPS.
  • A description of a new sort of Clepsydra.
  • A New Principle for Watches.
  • An Observation about the Seed of Moss.
  • Maculae in Sole.
  • POSTSCRIPT.
• title page
• VIRO PERILLUSTRI Dno JOSEPHO WILLIAMSON EQUITI AURATO, Serenissimo CAROLO IIo. Mag. Britan. Fran. & Hibern. REGI, A Consiliis Secretioribus, et a Secretis Status, Nec non SOCIETATIS REGALIS LONDINENSIS, Ad Scientiam Naturalem promovendam PRAESIDI DIGNISSIMO.
• SYNOPSIS.
• COMETA, OR, Remarks about Comets.
  • A short Memorial of some Observations made upon an Artificial Substance, that shines without any precedent Illustra∣tion.
  • A Letter from Johannes Carolus Gal∣let, L. L. D. and Provost of the Church of St. Symphorean at Avignon, di∣rected thus.
  • Ʋpon this Observation I find in the twenty third Journal de Scavans of the Year 1677. Mr. Cassini made these Reflections.
  • St. Helenae, Latitudo Australis, 15.55. Anno 1677.
  • The Period of the Revolution of Jupiter upon it Axis; verified by new Observa∣tions made by Monsieur Cassini: Extracted out of the Journal de Scavans.
  • MICROSCOPIƲM: OR, Some new Discoveries made with and concerning Microscopes.
• ERRATA.

• Potentia Restitutiva, OR SPRING.
• Dr. Pappins Letter containing a Description of a Wind-Fountain, and his own particular contrivance about the forcer of its Syringe.
  • An account of a Journey made to the highest part of the earthby my Ingenious Friend Mr. G. T. as I collected it out of the Memorials which he writ at the time of making it; The particulars whereof were,
  • A true Relation of the Vulcanos which broke out in the Island of the Palma Novemb. 13. 1677.
• ERRATA.
• illustrations