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the Asinellj
D
r. Croon alledged that mo
r. De Schales in his Cursus had giuen
a Theory of the Re
si
stance of the Air to bodys moued through
it together w
th. a great number of Experiments to that
purpo
se
S
r. Ionas more Related that A hurricane blowing off the
ball from the top of the Steeple at Durham it had ac
quired soe great a velocity in its fall from soe great a
height that it sunk it self at Lea
st 4 foot into the
ground, w
ch. he supposd was occa
sioned by rea
son of its -
great bulk and the great height of the place from whence
It fell.
m
r. Hooke moued that for the examination of the De
scent
of Heauy bodys tryalls should be made w
th. granodos
shot Directly vpwards as neer as might be, at Black
heath, /in which tryalls/
and to obseruation ^ /should be made of/ the time of its a
scent & De
scent
which might be very easily done the same being very
easily /plainly/ vi
sible at a di
stance
m
r. Hill alledged that in Ricciolus there was an account of an
experiment of shooting a shell perpendicularly vpwards
and that It had always been found to fall to the we
stwards of
the place from whence it was shot
m
r. Hill further added that by many experiments tryd at douer
ca
stle It had been found that noe gunn in that place would
shoot aboue a mile & an half into the Sea -
The reason of w
ch. was shewn to be the proportion between
the velocity of the horizontall & perpendicular motions.
After this m
r Hooke shewd the
fibers micro
scopicall figure
of the fibers of
. . . a mu
scle and explained the Reason
of their motion by wreathed helicall gut and a straight
string whereby
the vpon the blowing vp the gutt & filling
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