636
which he de
signed shortly to print he was de
sired to ha
sten the fini
shing of
soe noble & soe v
sefull an In
strument and to get it Ready again
st next Day
he was put in mind of preparing exp
ts. to answer his former sugge
stions.
society adjournd from Iune
the 18 to nou: 12. 1674. RH vpon di
scor
sing of air said that he had a theory of making a springy body out of a
body not springy. Dec 3. 74 RH Read his di
scour
se concerning
the structure & v
se his new quadrant Dec. 10. grew read. of mixture
Dec. 17. wrays di
scours of the seeds of plants RH produced his module
of Horizontall sayles affirming it the highe
st perfection of horizontall say[l]
for that the sayles are always placed in the mo
st aduantagious po
sture
RH was De
sired to obserue the Eclip
se of
the Sun Ian: 1
st. -
Ian. 7 1674/5. Ian: 14 RH Read his late ob
seruations of
the Eclip
se
of
the moon. he was de
sired to perfect it & then publi
sh it.
Ian: 21. Dan Cox read of
the Analysis of vegetables. RH his notion
of the nature of fire Debated, as al
so of making springy bodys
from bodys not springy he was de
sired to proue it as soon as he
could. Ian: 28. RH read his Di
scour
se concerning Helio
scopes &
Diuers other v
sefull In
struments. the helio
scope was for ob
seruing the sun
w
thout offending the tendere
st Eye by Dimini
shing the strength of
the Rays by
many reflections. Helio
scope orderd to be made - hugens his anagr
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Feb: 4 D
r. King Read of ve
ssells. RH affirmd he had Di
scouerd the texture
of a mu
scle by a micro
scope.
RH w
ch. was that the mu
scle con
si
sted of
thea great number of small pipes Lying one by an other. -
Feb: 11. D
r. Croon Read of the flying of Birds ^ /concluding flying for a man impo
ssible/ herevpon RH sugge
sted
that what nature Did not supply art and Rea
son could. and that he knew
a way to produce strength soe as to giue to one man the strength of
10 . 20 or more men and to contriue mu
scle for him of equiualent
strength to tho
se in Birds. the same hinted al
so that a contriuance
might be made of something more proper for the feet of men
to tread the air then for his armes to beat the air
Feb: 18. m
r Hen
shaw read his nat ob
seruations in his voyage - Hugens
his 2
d Letter of watch. axis circuli mobilis affixus in centro volutae ferre
RH said he had diuers years agoe had such an inuention and that actually watches
had been made according to the same for w
ch. he appeald to the Iournall books
to the Hi
story of the Society and to seuerall members of
the Society. -
It was orderd that m
r Hugens notw
thstanding should be thankd for this
communication and to Let him know what had been done here and
what were the cau
ses of its want of succe
sse - -
Feb: 25. Grew read of wood &c Gr. thankd
RH shewd Dwights china lead. -
march 4. RH Di
scour
sed Long on Vo
ssius his papers -
for almo
st an howr. RH vpon D
r. cox his Di
scour
se of sea sand intimated it to be made o[ut] /of water/
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