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nou: 25. 1680.
Many of the society met But there was none in
the Chair
m
r. Aston took the La
st Letter of M
r. Leuwenhoek and promi
sed to tran
late it into Engli
sh -
m
r. Hooke introduced Mr.
Mes Mee
ster who explaind his water Leuell
& Print & De
scription whereof was Presented by Mr. Haake for the
v
se of the Society.
D
r. Gale Deliuerd in
to from D
r. Wallis the two La
st Lectures he Read
before the Society concerning the Time of Ea
ster.
D
r. Gale was De
sired to Returne the Societys thanks to the S
d D
r. and al
so their earne
st De
sire to him to make it Publique
S
r. Cerill Wych de
sired to haue the Perusall thereof for
some
short time which was Grantd
m
r. Hooke produced & Read a Letter to himself from m
r Octau: Pullein Dated from Padua this nouember
D
r. Gale was De
sired to be mindfull of Writing to him when he
shall arriue at Madrid -
m
r. Hooke Gaue an account of the Particular obseruations of the Inner
mo
st Satellite of
Recommended to him to be obserued here in
Englad by our a
stronomers who might corre
spond w
th. the French
Astronomer. by Mon
r. Toinerd together w
th. an account of seue
rall obseruations of tho
se named made by m
r. Flamstead at
Greenwich which he De
signed to
send to Paris
Mr. Hooke gaue a Particular Relation concerning his Obseruations
made on munday morning & Tuesday morning La
st of a new
comet appearin in the beginning of the signe Scorpio a Little
to the Southward of the Ecliptick, that its motion was ea
st
ward & ha
sted towards the Sun that It could not be seen either
wensday & thur
sday morning becau
se of the thickne
sse of the
air.
Herevpon m
r Hill noted that he had been told by S
r. Robert Moray that
Mr. Marriot had In his Life time seen 9. And that of tho
se nine
he had predicted when 7 of them
should appear.
Mo
r. Auzout was sayd to be the first that had printed an Ephemerides
of the comet in 1664. Though Vpon grounds very improbable but
S
r. Chr: Wren was the fir
st that found out & demonstrated the true
way of making an Ephemerides of all the way of the comet from any
four ob
seruations.
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