| Description | Dr Wallis's written account of the experiment of the previous day was brought in. Amanuensis ordered to draw the schemes annexed to the account in larger format, for everyone to look at with convenience.
Sir Robert Moray presented the Society with two manuscripts composed by two Scottish authors; one treating of Natural Philosophy by Mr Sinclair, and the other called 'Optica Britannica' by Mr Gregory. Two groups appointed to peruse a manuscript each.
Mr Hill and Mr Crown ordered to bring in an account of the 'Tenacity of Bodies; out of Galileo and Mersennius.
Mr Palmer ordered to speak to artist Mr Gregory about the new way of tinging stuffs
Mr Sinclair to receive copy of experiments sent by Mr Croone and Dr Power, about weighing things in great depthss underground, and he to make them in Scotland
Mr Boyle asked to prosecute the experiments about the velocity of sounds by great guns to be procured by Sir Robert Moray for this purpose
Dr Goddard, Mr Charleton, and Mr Croone were asked to make experiments about echoes
Dr Charelton asked to inquire of Dr Scarborow concerning his account of sounds which the Society had previously asked him to bring.
Mr Oldenburg to write to Mr Fowler to send to the Society an exact descriptionof the whispering place, that is in the Cathedral of Gloucester
Mr Boyle asked to remember his experiments concerning colours, and their various productions by mixtures
Amanuensis asked to translate Mr Zulichems letter of 18 August to Sir Robert Moray into English
Mr Evelyn asked to speak to Colonel Blunt concerning his observations about the mensuration of waves
Mr Oldenburg asked to peruse Ricciolo concerning mensuration of the Earth, and to compare what he has said of the several ways thereof in his 'Almagestum' with what he has said of the same in his 'Geographia' and 'Hydrographia'.
Mr Boyle asked to bring in his experiment about the duck in his 'pneumaticall engine' against the next day. |