Description | ' Mr Newton's Experiment of glasse rubbed to cause various motions in bits of Paper underneath, was tryed, but succeeded not, in those circumstances with which it was tryed. This tryal waas made upon the reading of a letter of his, dated the 14th December 1675 at Cambridge, wherein he gives some more particular directions about that Experiment.
It was ordered, that the Secretary should again write to the said Mr Newton, and acquaint him with the want of Successe of his Experiment, and desire him, that he would send his own apparatus, wherewith he had made it, as also to enquire whether he had secured the papers being moved from the air, that might somewhere steal in.
Hereupon the Sequele of his Hypothesis, which was begun to be read the last day, was read to the end.
To which Mr Hook said, that the main of it was contained in his Micrography, without which Mr Newton in some particulars onely had carried further. '
The Society adjourned till December 30. |