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Ian. 19. 1680

Sr. Chr: Wren the President tooke the chair

The minutes of the 12 instant . . . were read. -
wherevpon there was occasioned was ga . . . a discourse about
Earthquakes. and mr. Hill related that he had been certainly Informed
that therein was an earthquake at marocco the same Day that there
was one at Malaga, and that it hapned at morocco Iust at 8
of the clock in the morning
The President propounded Dr. Wood a Candidate of this Society.
vpon occasion of Mr. Leibnitz Letter. Mr the President & Sr. Iohn Hoskins
Discoursed about the vniuersall algebra spoken of by him, and they supposed
It might be somewt. like the Ars Lulliana, but did not conceiue that it could
be of soe great vse as he seemed to suppose.
mr. Hill mentioned that Sturmius had writ an Euclides vniuersalis some
what to this Purpose and that he had the booke now by him.
Sr. Chr. Wren Acquainted the society wth the vndertaking of Mr. Iohn
Adams to suruey all england by the measuring taking of angles and also
of taking the Latitudes of Places. and in order to doe this of running
3 seuerall meridians cleer through england. that mr. newton of
Cambridge had promised to assist him, and that he Designed the next
week to wayte on the Soceity in order to craue their Direction &
assistance also.

Some discourses were occasioned about the coment & mr. Hill obserued
that Calphurneus the Poet who liued in the time of Carinus had men
tioned a comet not taken notice of in writers of Astronomy.

The President mentioned that the fire ball that had been formerly
seen in England might posibly be a sublunary p Comet

A Letter of Sr. Th: De Vaux was read giuing an account of some apparitio
that had been laterly seen in the air Tryall like armys fighting that
the fire was seen and noyse heard like the Dicharging of Guns and
afterwards great groanings were heard

The President sayd that he had formerly seen a very pretty scene
vpon the opening of the cloudes & Flashes of lightning running to & fro
between them

Sr. Theodore de Vaux said that Sr. Herbert Perrot had Lately seen 3
suns & two moones at swansey in Pembrokeshire.
mr. Hill related that A freind of mr moses had Lately giuen him an
account out of Somersetshire that there had been there seen fighting
in the air.
mr Haughton Propounded Dr. hugh Chamberlaine a Candidate of this Society
mr Thomas Hills paper of the comet sent by Dr. Tillotson was perused
and orderd to be Copied.

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