Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666: Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the WorldVarious
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666: Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World
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6. What kind of Grass is fittest to be preserved for Winter feeding? And
what Grass is best for Sheep, for Cows, Oxen, Horses, Goats, &c.
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_Numb._ 6.
PHILOSOPHICAL
_TRANSACTIONS._
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Monday, _November_ 6. 1665.
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The Contents.
_An Account of a not ordinary _Burning Concave_, lately made at
_Lyons_, and compared with several others made formerly. Of Monsieur
_Hevelius_ his promise of communicating to the World his Invention of
making _Optick Glasses_; and of the hopes, given by Monsieur _Christian
Hugens_ of _Zulichem_, to perform something of the like nature; as also
of the Expectations, conceived of some Persons in _England_, to improve
_Telescopes_. An intimation of a way of making more lively Counterfeits
of Nature in _Wax_, then are extant in _Painting_; and of a new kind of
_Maps_ in a low _Relievo_, or _Sculpture_, both practised in _France_.
Some _Anatomical_ Observations of Milk found in Veins instead of Blood;
and of Grass found in the Wind-pipes of some Animals. Of a place in
_England_, where, without Petrifying Water, Wood is turned into Stone.
Of the nature of a certain Stone, found in the _Indies_ in the head of
a _Serpent_. Of the way, used in the _Mogol's_ Dominions, to make
_Salt-petre_. An Account of _Hevelius_ his _Prodromus Cometicus_, and
of some Animadversions made upon it by a _French_ Philosopher; as also
of the Jesuit _Kircher_'s _Mundus Subterraneus_._
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_An Account of a not ordinary _Burning Concave_, lately made at _Lyons_,
and compared with several others made formerly._
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