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seueral times wth all possible care of exactnes
and that it should be expanded, whether the dial kept the same and
tht there
fore M
r Hook should meet S
r R. Moray again for
tht purpose
[In margin]A month
hence the
North star
will be in
the East at
10 o clock
It being
de thought desirable
tht the History of setting that
meridian
at in Whitehall garden might be procured in writing
viz. when. wth what care, and by what persons it had been
performed, Mr collins
suggested ^ /said/ that he thought, it was to be
found in ^ /one of/ Mr Wings books: whereupon he was desired to
find it out, and give
the Society an accompt of it.
The
Experim Society hauing formerly orderd
tht Experiments should
be made in tall Glasses, to obserue the
descent Acceleration
of
the descent of
heavy I bodies in water, and there being
two such glasses ready, it was consider'd, how
ther the
se try
als might be conueniently made therein, and
it was concluded
that it should be done by a glas body, hauing some weight
put into it, and
tht increased according to the ponderousness of
the seueral bodies, ^ /to be examined
upon this for this purpose/
whose tht are to be responsible It was order'd, that this apparatus should be made ready
for the next day.
It was al
so moued, that Experiments might be made of
weighing all sorts of Bodies in water; and
tht exact scales
be procured for
tht purpose
Some of
the Company mention'd,
tht
. . . /this/ had been attempted
by diuers persons, by Ghetaldus, Hederna, Casatus in
his terra madinis mota; and that there found great diversi
ty in their accounts of such Experiments.
Here it was obserud, that that diuersity might proceed
from the different
weight . . . ^ /weight of
bodies/ metals, stones, woods
in seueral places.
Mr Smethwick said,
tht he had
the MS. of Mr Reynolds, for
merly Essay-master
of in the Tower, concerning the Tryalls,
he had made of weighing bodies in water.
Mr Collins also mentiond,
tht something of this subiect was
found in Mr Salisbury translated Book ^ /of Gutitarii/ wch he was desired
to bring in
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