The History of the Royal Society of London/Part 2

by Thomas Sprat

THE

HISTORY

OF THE

ROYAL SOCIETY

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The Second Part.

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Contents of the Second Part (not listed in original)

• Sections I. to XXIX.

• Answers return'd by Sir Philiberto Vernaiti resident in Batavia in Java Major, to certain inquiries sent thither by order of the Royal Society, and recommended by Sir Robert Moray
• A Method for making a history of the weather. By Mr. Hook
• Directions for the observations of eclipses of the moon
• Mr. Rook’s Discourse concerning the observations of the eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter

• Section XXXI.

• A proposal for making wine. By Dr. Goddard.

• Section XXXII.

• A Relation of the Pico Teneriffe, receiv'd from some considerable Merchants and Men worthy of Credit, who went to the top of it

• Section XXXIII.

• Experiments of the Weight of Bodies increased in the Fire: Made at the Tower, and the account brought in by my Lord Brouncker
• Experiments of a stone called Oculus Mundi made by Dr. Goddard
• An account of a dog dissected. By Mr. Hook
• Experiments of the recoiling of guns. By the Lord Brouncker

• Section XXXIV. to XXXIX.

• The history of the making of salt-peter. By Mr. Henshaw
• The history of making gun-powder
• An apparatus to the history of the common practices of dying. By Sir William Petty.
• The History of the Generation and Ordering of Green Oysters, commonly called Colchester-Oysters

• Section XL.