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In the mean time m
r. Horneck propounded S
r. Iames Langham for
a candidate
And m
r. vice president Declared that the President had Di
sired that
m
r. Kerckringius should also be propounded a candidate -
m
r. Hook acquainted the Society that he had mett w
th. a
new Di
scour
se
of Opticks newly publi
shed by Pere Cherubine containing De
scriptions
of seuerall sorts of binocular tele
scopes & micro
scopes, and al
so
the of
an in
strument for taking the figure of things at a Di
stance by the help
of a tele
scope. he was orderd to
the procure the same for the Society
Library.
m
r. Henshaw vpon this occa
sion Presented the Society for their Library
two bookes the one Intitled Olaj Wormij Hi
storia Maris
Noruagicj
The other: Simonis Paulj Epi
stola Paranetica ad Th: Bartholinaeum
both w
ch. were written on and Deliuerd to m
r. Hunt to putt into the Library
After this the epitomy of six papers sent from M
r. Heuelius to
the Secretary
of this Society was read. The fir
st marked A was a letter about seuerall
particulars. the 2
d marked B conteind an account of
the occultation of
by
the moon w
ch. he would haue obserued but the weather hindred -
C. was about the transit of
through
the sun vnobserud al
so. -
D. a catalogue of
the Di
stances and positions of Saturn to
the moon.
E a scheme or Draught of the same obserued through a 12. & a 20 /foot/ telescope
F. Further obseruations of the changes
observed in . . . of the
starr in collo Ceti. continued to the 6
th. of Decemb 1667. St. No.
Part al
so of a Letter from m
r Swammerdam was read conteining a
relation of a Di
scouery he had made of a sort of snailes which were
viuiparous.
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