135
Ian: 10th. 1677. Entred
S
r. Chr: Wren vice President -
The minutes of the La
st meeting were Read
vpon w
ch. a Di
scour
se aro
se concerning the Aether which m
r Hooke
affirmed to be the men
struum vehicle or fluide
st part of
the.
air into w
ch. the Exhalation or vapours that compo
se the
Atmo
sphere are Di
ssolued or take after the same man
ner as Salt, sugar or any other
Dissoluable /tinging/ body are Di
ssosolued or taken vp by water or other di
ssoluing liquor _
That the atmosphere or air that Grauitated on the quick
sil
uer in the Barometer was only that part w
ch. was thus Di
ssol
and taken vp and that the other part or aether Did readily
and freely peruade the parts of gla
sse whence gla
sse becom
as it were a
strainer to separate between the aether &
the Gro
sse air. that according to the quantity of the
se
vapours or exhalations Rai
sed vp & su
spended thus by
the aether in the atmosphere so was the pre
ssure of
it vpon the mercury in the Barometer, that the
Rarefaction and Conden
sation of the
se vapours did
not at all alter the pre
ssure prouided the same - -
quantity of the said vapours were in both the
said conditions
of the vap the same
The vice president Doubted whether there were any
such thing as that Aether which m
r. Hook had
hypothetically supposed and said that he would very
gladly see some experiment that would make it
euident that there is such a body mixt w
th. the air
To w
ch. m
r Hooke Replyd that he could by hundreds of
Experiments Euidence the reallity of such a body and
that from tho
se Exp
ts. he was able to collect the seue=
rall proprietys of that Body And How many &
how very con
siderable effects it produced in bodys.
Ref: CELL/RS/HF_137 © Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
