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its Direction & Afford a new hypothesis of his owne. the same affirmed that noe interposd
body alterd the Attraction of the magnet
may 2. 1666. RH tryd Expt of the attraction of the magnet in water. also steel dust an
a plain about the terrella. . wallis of the flux & Reflux of the sea.
may. 9. RH made expt wth steel dust held ouer the pole of the terrella set perpendi
cularly. flying from the pole. the President Related RH chariot free from Iolting
Boyles Inquirys for the naturall History of a country Read.

stoln from me

may. 16. Philips Paper of magnetick variations producd by RH. Dr. wallis his hypothesis
to be printed approued. RH propounded to make out all the phenomena of the Heauens
by Pendules. RH Propounded for the Lord Sandwich to obserue in Spain the Distance of
the moons center from a fixt starr when south. order to take a paper of mr Rooke
Deliuerd by Sr R M to Oldenburg. & thence to deduce the periods of their Reuolu
tions. There was Read a paper of RH explicating the way of inflecting
of a direction into a curue by a superuening attractiue principle
wch was orderd to be registred and expt made thereupon -

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