Royal Society EL/A/36

From St George Ashe to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, 27th April 1686

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St George Ashe has reported the contents of a letter from the Royal Society of 27th March to the Dublin Society and in return sends information about the recent activities. These covered:

  1. a demonstration of the 2nd and 5th books of Euclid, using the method of Dr Pell in his Alegbra;
  2. the sundial (telescopic ?) designed by William Molyneux, which he was intending to publish shortly;
  3. Dr Mullen's experiments on dogs;
  4. a young female mathematical prodigy of George Tollet's, a full account of whose testing by the society was to be transmitted separately;
  5. a demonstration of Robert Hooke's level, which William Molyneux had investigated and demonstrated to the society;
  6. an account of 2 or 3 'monstrous productions' presented to the society were delayed to a subsequent communication.

In a postscript Ashe sent his and Molyneux's thanks for their admission to the Royal Society.

© AHRB Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, 2005  Reference: CELL/Early Letters of the Royal Society Catalogue EL.A.36