Note on the Five Essays.
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qu'on trove disadvantageuse au pays chocque les gens ou les rend suspects. il faut mettre qu'on a dit a Monsieur Auzout qu'il n'y avait que vingt quatre mil maisons sans nommer celuy qui luy a dit. Vous en pouuez deuiner la raison. J'attends ce plaisir la de votre bonte et suis Vostre tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur
Justel.
- For Mr Edmond Halley to be left
with Mr Henry Hunt at Gresham
College in bishopgatestreet
London.
[Endorsed by Southwell] Mr Justel's note read Jan. 26 16867[1].
Accordingly no extract from Auzout's letter was published with Petty's three papers.
The Five Essays were published in English and French on opposite pages, each version having its own pagination. The French, here omitted, is a fairly close translation of the English. They were reviewed in Leclerc's Bibliotheque universelle et historique, viii. Mars, 1688.
- ↑ Royal Society's Letter Book J1, letter 110.
