3. A Tract of the _Origine_ of the _Nile_, by Monsieur _Isaac Vossius_, opposed to that of Monsieur _de la Chambre_, who is maintaining, That _Niter_ is the principal cause of the Inundation of that River. 4. A Dissertation of _Vipers_, by _Signor Redi_, an _Italian_. 5. A Discourse of the _Anatomy_ of _a Lyon_, by the same. 6. Another, _De Figuris Salium_, by the same. 7. A Narration of the Establishment of the _Lyncei_, an _Italian_ Academy, and of their Design and Statutes: the Prince _Cesi_ being the Head of them, who did also intend to establish such Philosophical Societies in all parts of the World, and particularly in _Africa_ and _America_, to be by that means well informed of what considerable productions of Nature were to be found in those parts. The Author yet _Anonymus_. 8. To these I shall add, a Book newly Printed in _Oxford_ (and not yet dispersed) being, _A Catalogue of Fixed Stars_ with their _Longitudes, Latitudes, and Magnitudes_, according to the _Observations_ of _Uleg-Beig_ (a King, and famous Astronomer, who was _Great-Grand-childe_ to the famous {146} _Tamerlane_, and one of his Successors in some of his Kingdoms) made at _Samarcand_, his cheief seat, (for the year of the Hegira 841, for the year of Christ 1427), who not finding the _Tables_ of _Ptolemy_ to agree sufficiently with the Heavens, did with great diligence, and expense, make observations anew; as _Tycho Brahe_ hath since done. It is a small part of a larger _Astronomical Treatise_ of his, whereof there be divers _Persian_ Manuscript Copies in _Oxford_. Out of which this is Translated and Published, both in _Persian_ and _Latine_, by Mr. _Thomas Hyde_, now Library Keeper to the _Bodleyan_ Library in _Oxford_: (with Commentaries of his annexed:) Like as another part of it hath formerly been by Mr. _John Graves_. And it were a desirable work that the whole were Translated, that we might be the better acquainted with what was the Eastern Astronomy at that time. * * * * * _Published with License._ Oxford, Printed by _A: & L: Lichfield_, for _Ric: Davis_. 1666. {147} * * * * * _Num._ 9. PHILOSOPHICAL _TRANSACTIONS._ * * * * * _Munday_, _Feb._ 12. 1665/6. * * * * * The Contents. _An _Apendix_ to the _Directions_ for Seamen, bound for far voyages. Of the judgment of some of the _English_ Astronomers, touching the difference between two learned men, about an Observation made of the first of the two late _Comets_. Of a _Correspondency_, to be procured, for the finding out of the _True_ distance of the _Sun_ and _Moon_ from the Earth. Of an Observation not long since made in _England_ of _Saturn_. An Account of some _Mercurial_ Observations, made with a _Barometer_, and their Results. Some Observations of _Vipers_, made by an _Italian_ Philosopher._ * * * * *