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Ap. 25. 1678. -

Sr. Christ Wren the vice president tooke the chair
The minutes of the Last Day being read gaue occasion
to Discourse concerning the resistance of the air to bodys moued
through them and particuarly concerning the figure in wch
a Granado is moued, how neer it approaches to a Parabola
and in wt It varys from it, that in the motion of . . .
Lesser bodys in Lesser spaces the figure is soe neer a true
parabola that tis not possible by any instrument yet
known certainely & truly to Describe one neerer to the
truth.
Sr. Christ: Wren, alledged that he had by many tryalls wth found
that he was able by binding and fixing fast his barrell to shoot
3 shotts in 5 into the same hole
Sr. Io: Hoskins . . . mentiond that Sr. Ionas more had affirmed
to haue done much the same thing wth. a crosse bow fixed
fast to a rest and shooting an arrow.

It was alledged that those gunns carryed truest and surest
which were exactly bored & polished wthin & that had
a bullet exactly fitted into it or that was forced through
it by the strength of the powder -

After this A Discourse was occasioned of the motion &
fabrick of Muscles. And mr. Hooke shewd an Experimt
in order to the Explanation thereof, which was a chaine
of small bladders fastned together soe as that by one
pipe the whole ^ /series/ might be filled wch. they would be suc=
cessiuely one after another. that wch. was next the wou
pipe being first filld and then the next successiuely.
now It was supposd that the globules of the fibres of
the muscles which seemd like a necklace of Pearle
might be some such fabrick as this . . . of bladders
in wch. might be inclosed a certaine portion of Air or other

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