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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666
Various and Henry, 1615?-1677 Oldenburg
Peer into the very first years of published science. This 1666 volume of the Royal Society's Transactions gathers reports on improving optic glasses and the earliest experiments of a new age of inquiry. Read the founding record of how discoveries began to be shared, tested, and believed. Open the notebook where modern science first started keeping its minutes.
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230 chapters
- 1ACCOMPT
- 2INGENIOUS
- 3WORLD
- 4Vol I. For Anno 1665, and 1666.
- 5TO THE
- 6Royal Society.
- 7PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS.
- 8The Contents.
- 9The Introduction.
- 10An Accompt of the improvement of Optick Glasses.
- 11A Spot in one of the Belts of Jupiter.
- 12The Motion of the late Comet prædicted.
- 13An Experimental History of Cold.
- 14An Account of a very odd Monstrous Calf.
- 15Of a peculiar Lead-Ore of Germany, and the Use thereof.
- 16Of an Hungarian Bolus, of the same Effect with the Bolus Armenus.
- 17Of the New American Whale-fishing about the Bermudas.
- 18A Narrative concerning the success of Pendulum-Watches at Sea for the Longitudes.
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