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Iune. 28. 1682.

Sr. Iohn Hoskins tooke the chair -

the minutes of the preceding meeting being Read and Discorsed
there being seuerall persons present who were not here at the
Last meeting: as Sr. William Petty /Sr Iohn Hoskins/ Sr. Rob: Southwell mr Henshaw
mor. Iustell. Mor. Auzout and seuerall others who were not
present the Last Day at the Reading of the Discourse menti
ond It was Desired by them that mr. Hook should Read
the same againe, which he accordingly Did.


After which some obiected as if this Discourse had
tended to proue the soule mechanicall to which mr.
Hooke answered that there was noe such thing hinted
or in the Least Intended It being only intended to shew
that the soule did forme for its own vse certaine corpore
all Ideas which It stored vp in the Repository or organ of
memory, and that by its power of being Immediately sensible
of those Ideas wheneuer it exerted its power for that end
It thereby became sensible of those Ideas formerly made
as if they were made at that present but wth this Differ
rence that the farther they were remoued from the cen
ter or seat of its more Immediat momentary Resi=
dence the more faint were the Reflections or Reactions
from them, and that occasiond the notion of the Distance
of time.

mr. Hooke shewed a ^ /very plaine & easy/ way of plainly Demonstrating the
Problem of Archimedes whereby he proues that the
tangent of his spirall at the point of one Reuolution
from the Center will cutt a Ray Produced from the
center at Right angles to the ^ /ray/ from the toucht point
soe that the part between the point of Intersection and
the centrer shall be equall to the circumference of
the circle that passes through the point of the spirall
where the said tangent doth touch it, which was
performed wthout any /supporting/ praecognita in Geometry known.

Ref: CELL/RS/HF_553  © Centre for Editing Lives and Letters