240
Lately made there to shew
the motion of
Iupiters satellites.
Al
so
tht quadrant he hath lately made a sliding half quadrant wth
gla
sses 8 inches semidiameter of great v
se for Cariage - -
Included in this Letter were two packetts -
one from mo
r. Gallet Provo
st of the church of S
t. Syphorian at Auignion
conteining a Letter to the Royall Society and 3
trea small tracts
the fir
st his account of the ob
seruation of mercury in the sun
The second his ob
seruation of an eclip
se of
the Moon may. 17. 1677
The 3
d. his ob
seruation of an eclip
se of
the Sun Iune 11. 1678.
all 3 ob
serued at Auignon .
The Letter of mo
r Gallet was read wherein after the profe
ssion
of the great Re
spect he hath for this Society, he addes his De
sire of
holding corre
spondence w
th. them in Astronomicall matters and
promi
ses to send such other ob
seruations as he hath hitherto made
w
ch. are not yet publi
shed, and Especially tho
se about the Di
ameters of
the sun & moon
of concerning which he giues -
some in
stances about the Diameters of the sun -
D
r. Croon
. . . affirmed that m
r. Rooke ^ /Long since/ v
sed the same way for
taking the Diameters of the sun w
th. that made v
se of by
Mo
r: Gallet namely by computing the time of the tran
situs of
its figure made by a 40 foot Gla
sse.
m
r. Hooke Read a
paper Relation of a great eruption of fire w
chLas hapned this last winter in the Ile of Palma of the Ca
narys giuen him by a person who had Long Re
sided in
the said Island. and who was there at the time of the said
eruption -
m
r. Henshaw was of opinion that Hot bathes were cau
sed
by subtarraneous fire, becau
se generally where are tho
se
subterraneous fire there are many hott bathes -
Ref: CELL/RS/HF_242 © Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
