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Octob: 31. 1678.
The Society met againe after their Adjourment
M
r. Henshaw the vice president tooke the chair -
The Iournall of the La
st meeting were read which gaue occa
sion
of Di
scour
se concerning the petrifaction of humane sub
stances.
D
r. ^ /Croon/ mentiond that there had Lately been a Di
scour
se Published con-
cerning that matter by
but that it had been answerd by _
mr. Henshaw vpon Discou M
r. Henshaw mentiond that he had
seen the arm of a man petrifyed at the hou
se of Cardinall
motalto calld Villa Perreti, it being part of
a man the body
of a man wholy petrifyed in the Alps.
vpon Reading that concerning freezing m
r. Henshaw added
that hauing ^ /in Denmark/ set brandy to freeze in cupps he found that
all the spirituous part thereof was wa
sted & the remaining
part w
ch. was conuerted into /a spongy/ Ice, was of a very Ill ta
st
and had Lo
st all its strength -
S
r. Iohn Hoskins Related that D
r. Merret had a
ssured him
that the stronge
st wine might be all frozen in the Flo=
rentine fla
skes-
which the Reason of w
ch was concei
ued to be the great thinne
sse of tho
se bottles- -
m
r. Hooke read a Letter Directed to the two secretarys of
this Society from m
r. Michaell Butterfeild a mathema
ticall In
strument maker at Paris, Propounding his De
sire
to Corre
spond w
th. them concerning Philosophicall
& ^ /mechanicall &/ mathema
ticall matters, and profering to communicate such things as
he should there meet w
th. of that kind, He communicates m
rhugens his way of making small globules of gla
sse for micros
copes by sticking /powderd glasse/
them on the point of a needle w
th spittle and
holding them in the flame of a Lamp
wherein of Sp
t. of wine
and after rubbing them w
th. a putty cloth. He mentions al
so a
Leuell of his Inuention publi
shed the La
st year in
the Iournall De
Scauans at Paris, and adds a further improuement of the
same by hanging it vpon one point, and mentions diuers
others inuented by Considerable Per
sons. farther that he was
making a large siluer planisphere he was making for the King
of the contriuance of mo
r. Ca
ssini. that he had made a Ring Diall
for Ca
ssini w
th. 3 rings
and besides the sliding ring w
th. 2 halidades &
4 sights of a foot Diameter. He mentions al
so a peice of clockwork
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