Philosophical Collections of the Royal Society of London

Title Publication Date Language Citations
The true proportion of the circle to the square, circumscribed expressed in rational numbers, by Gothofredus Gulielmus Leebnitius, Englished from the Leipsick Acta Eruditorum Number II.English1
A short relation out of the journal of Captain Abel Jansen Tasman, upon the discovered of the South Terra incognita; not long since published in the Low Dutch by Dirk Rembrantse.English1
An account of several very curious discoveries about the internal texture of the flesh of muscles, of strange motions in the finns, and the manner of the production of the shells of oysters, &c. made by Mr. Anthony Leuwenhoek fellow of the Royal Society; sent in a letter to R. H. from Delft, and by him exhibited to the said Society.English1
A new theory of vision, communicated to the Royal Society, by W. B. M. D.English1
An hypothesis of the structure of a muscle, and the reason of its contraction; read in the surgeons theatre Anno 1674, 1675.English1
A letter from Dr. Lister of York, containing an account of several curious observations about Antiquities, &c.English1
A letter of Mr. Anthony Leuwenhook, dated from Delft, Nov. 4th 1681. Containing an account of several new discoveries made by him this last summer.English
An account of some very considerable observations made at Ballasore in India, serving to find the longitude of that place, and rectifying very great errours in some famous modern geographers; communicated by Mr. Edmund Hally, Fellow of the Royal Society.English
An account of an observation made at Dantzick by Mr. Hevelius , of the eclipse of the moon on the 19. of August 1681. whereof observations made at Paris and Greenwich are published in the third Collection p. 66 and 67.English
An additional observation concerning the growing of hair on a dead body.English
Figures 1 - 5 for issue 1English
A letter from M. Anthony Leeuwenhoeck, in answer to some former letters sent to him by R. H. containing some further observations made by him, about the fabrick and texture of the fibres of muscles-Communicated to the Royal Society.English
Idea mathesews Joannis Pellii S. Th. D. perscripts ad S. H.English
A correct tide-table: shewing the true time of the high-water at London Bridge ; with an explanation of it by Thomas Smith.English
His literis receptis, & ipso autori ideæ legendum exhibitis, ipse statim inde occasionem arripuit ad D. Mersennum scribendi, eiusque objectiones omnes eluendi, hac subsequente Epistola.English
A relation of the prodigious overflowing of some rivers in Gascoyne, with an inquiry after the cause of this inundation, translated out of the Journal des Scavans.English
A letter from Mr A. P. in Somersetshire, giving an account of a strange birth that in May last happened at Hilbrewers in that countryEnglish
A full account of divers strange symptoms, which happened to a patient at Berne , given by the physician to one of the chief magistrates, there to be communicated to the Royal Society by his son, and for him presented by Mr. Hook.English
Another occultation of the same Oct. 28. 1680. both made by Mr. Flamstead.English
Appendix. Consonant to the observations of Dr. Tyson, I have since the printing that sheet an account of an observation made by Dr. Samson, upon the dissection a morbid Body.English
An account of several experiments made with the shining substance of the liquid and of the solid Phosphorus, prepared and communicated to the collectorEnglish
Some microscopical observations made by Mr. Anthony Leuwenhoek, concerning the globulous particles in liquors, and the animal in semine masculino infectorum.English
Observations of the comet of 1680. and 1681. made at the Colledg of Clermont, P. J. de Fontaney, è S. J. professor of Mathematicks. Printed at Paris 1681English
An extract of a letter from the learned Johan. Christop. Sturmius, Professor of Mathematicks and Philosophy at Altdorf in Germany. Giving an account of the variation of the needle, lately made, of an experiment in the exhausting engine. And of the phosphores of Dr. Krunkel.English
Transmiser at Leydem quoque idem D. Theodorus Haak eandem Domini Pellii ideam una cum schedis quibusdam comenianis ad Dominum Elichman, M. D. cujus ope & procuratione Domini Hogheland nactus est subsequens fingulare Domini Cartefii responsorias, sibi à Domino Elichmanno, mense Febr. Ann. 1640. huc (Londini) transmissas.English
Another astronomical observation, viz. of the eclipse of the Moon, in the morning, August the 29th 1681. st. n. in the morning, made at the Royal Observatory at Paris.English
Historiola visionis cujusdam memorabilis observat & à D. Andrea Spole Astronomi & Professore in Academia Upsaliensi excerpta ex ejusdem Epistola quadam, Ann. 1681. d. 21. Julii scripta.English
A letter of Mr. Leeuwenhoeck to Dr. G., containing an account of his observations lately made of vast numbers of animals in <italic>Semine Animalium</italic>.English
An account of a very strange case in Physick, together with the description of a monstrous animal cast out of the stomach by vomit, and a discourse thereupon, made by Dr. Lister of York, Fellow of the Royal Society, and communicated to the said Society at one of their meetings.English
An account of the first volume of the English Atlas , containing a description of the Places next the North Pole; as also of Muscovy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and their several dependencies. Printed at the Theater of Oxford Moles Pitt, at the Angel in St.Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1680..English