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PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSACTIONS.
January 17. 1670.
The Contents.
An Accompt of such of the more notable Celestial Appearances of the Year 1670, as will be conspicuous in the English Horizon; and among them, an Eclipse of the Sun, in part visible here in England, though pretermitted, as such, by others; as also of divers Stellar Eclipses, to be caused by the Moon, covering several Fix'd Stars. Some Observations concerning the Barometer and Thermometer, made by Dr. Beale in Somerset; and others of the like nature, made by Dr. John Wallis in Oxford. An Accompt of a small Tract, entitled, THOMÆ HOBBES Quadratura Circuli, Cubatio Sphæræ, Duplicatio Cubi, {Secundo Edita,) Denuò Refutata, A. JOH. WALLIS, S. T. D. &c.
An Accompt
of such of the more notable Celestial Phænomena of the Year 1670, as will be conspicuous in the English Horizon; written by the Learned and Industrious Mr. John Flamstead Novemb. 4 1669. and by him addressed and recommended for encouragement, to the Right Honorable, the Lord Viscount Brouncker, as President of the Royal Society.
My Lord,
AMong those many Illustrious, Noble, and Generous Persons, who have the honour to be in the Lift of the R. Society, I find numbered some Astronomers, whom our Age accounts its Glory, and our Arts their Support: which induces meto
