Philosophical Experiments and Observations.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Publisher's Note to the 1967 Edition -- Editor's Note to the 1967 Edition -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- To the Reader -- Of the Invention of the Barometer -- Kingkardine's Observations of Pendulum Clocks at Sea -- Hooke's Experiment of Weighing Air -- A Brief Account of the Experiments tried before the Royal Society, with Glass Balls -- The Pressures of Bodies on Different Mediums -- Hooke's Enquiries for Greenland -- Hooke's Enquiries for Iceland -- Hooke's Proposals on the Resistance of Air -- Hooke's Experiment on the Refraction of Ice and Crystal -- Hooke's Method of Making Experiments -- Oldenburg's Letter to Hooke, 23 August 1665 -- Powell's Letter to Daniell, 6 January 1665/66 -- Powell's Letter to Daniell, 27 September 1666 -- Brown's Account of Petrified Bone, &amp -- c -- Towneley's Observations of Water -- Fran's Letter on Earthquakes -- On Bees-Wax -- Carte on the Belland -- Hooke's Weather-Clock -- Hooke's Self-Emptying Vessel -- Toinard on Longitude -- Toinard on the Eclipses of Jupiter -- Hooke on Hailstones -- Paschall's Letter to Hooke, 4 January 1680 -- Leuwenhoek on Animalcules -- Reiselius' Letter to Grew, 6 March 1680 -- Pigot's Letter to Hooke, 26 November 1681 -- Leuwenhoek on the Structure of Hair, &amp -- c -- Hooke's Letter to Trapham, 18 February 1681/82 -- Leuwenhoek on the Fibres of Muscles -- Carte on Worms in the Stomach -- Yonge's Letter to Hooke -- Molyneux's Anatomical Observations -- Hooke on the Rule of False Position -- Hooke on Earths, Salts, &amp -- c -- Hooke's Experiments on Floating of Lead -- Hooke's Experiments on the Pressure of Water in Pipes -- Experiments on the Elasticity of the Air -- Experiments on Compression -- Observations of Sound -- Hooke's Windmill -- Hooke's Contrivance to Stop Great Weights Falling.

Hooke on Impressions of Medals -- Hooke on Reproducing Pictures -- Hooke on the Improvement of Scales, &amp -- c -- Japanese Scales -- Hooke on the Weight of Liquors -- Hooke on Magnetism in Drills -- Hooke on the Strength of Ice -- Hooke on the Expansion of Water by Freezing -- Hooke on the Specific Gravity of Ice -- Hooke on the Phaenomena of Ice -- Hooke on Long-Distance Communication -- Hooke's Discourse of Carriages -- Houses Paying Chimney-Money -- Hooke on the Barometer -- Bolognian Phosphorus -- Liquid Phosphorus -- Metallic Phosphorus -- Brandt on Phosphoros Elementaris -- Baldwyn on Phosphorus -- De Germinatione Metalli -- Baldwyn on Tin -- On Orvietano -- Ink for Printing -- Divers Curious Recepts, Collected by Hooke -- Caswell's Discourse on the Sun-Dial -- Hooke's Way of finding the true Meridian -- Hooke on Dimensions in the Mixture of Vitriol and Fair Water -- An Account of the Plant called Bangue -- Hooke on Gems -- Wallis' Account of Printing in Oxford -- Hooke on Instruments for Sounding the great Depths of the Sea -- Hooke's Observations on the Lake-Wetter in Swedeland -- Hooke's Discourse Concerning Telescopes and Microscopes -- Hooke's Invention of a Reflecting Telescope -- Waller's Observations on Hooke's Discourse on Telescopes and Microscopes -- Hooke's Account of an Earthquake at Deal -- Southwell's Contrivance for speedy Conveyance of Earth -- Hooke on the Quantity of Gold up the River Gambay -- Hooke's Experiments and Observations on Heated Iron -- Hooke's Account of De la Hire's Discourse of Frost -- Hooke on a Draughting Instrument -- Hooke on a Way to measure Heights and Distances -- Smith's Letter to Halley, 12 June 1695 -- Hooke on the Improvement of the Barometer -- Hooke's Conjectures on Shell-Fish -- Hooke's Discourses concerning Amber -- Lowthorp on Atmospheric Refraction -- Gray on a Solar Eclipse.

Geoffroy's Observations on the Nostock -- Waller on the Burning-Glasses of the Ancients -- Waller's Account of Mistichelli's Trattato dell' Apoplessia -- The Pores of Sensitive Plants -- Mechanical Ways of Drawing Conical Figures -- Cotton Mather's Letter to Waller, 1 December 1713 -- Waller's Relation of petrified Bodies of Men, &amp -- c -- Hooke's Answer to some Claims of Cassini -- Index.

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