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m
r Hill De
sired the De
scription of it might be fairly enterd in the regi
ster
that soe such as had occa
sion might there receiue in
structions how to prouide
it if they thought fit to v
se it.
And the vice president De
sired that an apparatus might be prepared in or
der to shew the experiment of it at some meeting of this Society.
Vpon a farther Di
scour
se about the penumbra in Eclipses the vice president said
that m
r Heuelius had Affirmed that penambra to ari
se from the Atmo
sphere
about the earth, But m
r Hooke affirmed that was his mi
stake for that the
penumbra vi
sible in Eclip
ses of
the moon proceeded from nothing els but
from the partile inlightning of such parts ^ /of the moon/ as were in the penumbra. by
the light of the sun for that tho
se parts which were in the middle of
the pen
umbra were enlightned but by one half of
the Sunn the other half being
shadowed by the body of the earth. which by an experiment w
th. the
candle and an explication of schemes was made soe plaine as that
there were noe further obiections made again
st it.
Then D
r. Allein Presented the Society for their Repo
sitory a Locu
sta Ma
=rina w
ch. had this Remarkable that the Hornes thereof were couerd w
th a
shell soe thickly sett w
th /very/ small
sha and exceeding sharp points that it mu
st
Readily defend and keep off all such creature as should come between them
to offend it. He Receiud the thanks of tho
se present & It was deliuerd to
m
r Hunt for the Repository.
m
r Henshaw also obserud that the cock lobster /s
r g Ent had shewd at Arundell house/ had a double in
strument of
of Generation as the femall also had a double Receptacle
He further noted that tho
se bony sub
stances in the stomack of the Lob
ster com
monly calld the Lady of the Lob
ster were nothing els but the teeth by
w
ch. the food was chewed & pre
ssed doing the office of the grinders or
Dentes molares
D
r. Grew added that there were mu
scles & other bones by w
ch. their motion was
commanded & Regulated
M
r. George Ent then presented the Society for their Library the life of m
r Thomas Hobbs
written /compo
sed/ by himself in Latine ver
se ^ /& written/ w
th his own hand.
Then m
r. Hooke attempted to shew a micro
scopicall Experiment of the exceed
=ing smallne
sse of the parts of the tendon of a mu
scle to wit that It was not
aboue a twentyeth part of the bigne
ss of a hair in Diameter and consequently
that a hair was four hundred times bigger then one of the
se
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