Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1

39 chapters

1. 1Miscellanea Curiosa.
2. 2TO THE READER.
3. 3A Translation of Part of Monsieur Fontenelle's Preface to the Memoirs of the Royal Academy at Paris, in the Year 1699. treating of the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning.
4. 4A TABLE OF THE Discourses contain'd in this Volume.
5. 5Miscellanea Curiosa.
6. 6An Estimate of the Quantity of the Vapours raised out of the Sea derived from Experiment: Together with an Account of the Circulation of the watry Vapours of the Sea, and of the Cause of Springs, presented to the Royal Society. By Mr. E. Halley, F. R. S.
7. 7The True Theory of the Tides, extracted from that admired Treatise of Mr. Isaac Newton, Intitled, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica; Being a Discourse presented with that Book to the late King James, by Mr. Edmund Halley.
8. 8A Theory of the Variation of the Magnetical Compass. By Mr. Ed. Halley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
9. 9An Account of the Cause of the Change of the Variation of the Magnetical Needle, with an Hypothesis of the Structure of the Internal Parts of the Earth; as it was proposed to the Royal Society in one of their late Meetings. By Mr. Edmund Halley.
10. 10An Historical Account of the Trade Winds and Monsoons, observable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks, with an attempt to assign the Physical Cause of the said Winds, by Mr. Ed. Halley.
11. 11A Discourse of the Rule of the Decrease of the height of the Mercury in the Barometer, according as Places are elevated above the Surface of the Earth; with an Attempt to discover the true Reason of the Rising and Falling of the Mercury, upon Change of Weather. By Edm. Halley.
12. 12A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge; containing his New Theory about Light and Colours: Sent by the Author to the Publisher from Cambridge, Feb. 6. 1671/2; in order to be communicated to the Royal Society.
13. 13A farther Explanation of the same Theory.
14. 14A Demonstration concerning the Motion of Light, communicated from Paris.
15. 15An introductory Essay to the Doctrine of Sounds, containing some Proposals for the improvement of Acousticks; As it was presented to the Dublin Society, Nov. 12. 1683, by the Right Reverend Father in God Narcissus Lord Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin.
16. 16A Discourse concerning the Modern Theory of Generation, by Dr. George Garden of Aberdeen, being part of a Letter to Dr. William Musgrave, L. L. D. Reg. Soc. S. and by him communicated the Royal Society.
17. 17A short Discourse concerning Concoction: Read at a Meeting of the Royal Society, May ... 1699, by Clopton Havers, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society.
18. 18A Discourse concerning some Influence of Respiration on the Motion of the Heart, hitherto unobserved. By J. Drake, M. D. F. R. S.

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