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Expand 1 - Classified papers: volume 1 concerning 'Arithmetick, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry'1 - Classified papers: volume 1 concerning 'Arithmetick, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry'
Expand 2 - Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'2 - Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'
Expand 3i - Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'3i - Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'
Expand 3ii - Classified papers: volume 3ii concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades'3ii - Classified papers: volume 3ii concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades'
Expand 4i - Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks' 4i - Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
Expand 4ii - Classified papers: volume 4ii concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'4ii - Classified papers: volume 4ii concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
Expand 5 - Classified papers: volume 5 concerning 'Weather'5 - Classified papers: volume 5 concerning 'Weather'
Collapse 6 - Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'6 - Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'
1 - Paper, regarding an experiment to show the weight of bodies increased by heat by unknown author
2 - Paper, 'A conjecture proposed to examination concerning a naturall standard for measures' by unknown author
3 - Paper, 'A small stone of the kinde called by some authors 'oculus mundi' being dry and clowdy, weighed' by unknown author
3a - Paper, 'To be added to the observations of the stone called oculus mundi' by unknown author
4 - Paper, regarding details of a carp and roach by William Croone
5 - Paper, 'Account of the sounding of the depth of the sea between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight with the wooden globe and lead' by William Brouncker and Robert Moray
Expand 6 - Paper, 'Experiments of weighing glasse canes with the cylinders of quicksylver in them according to the torricellian experiment' by Jonathan Goddard and 'William Brouncker's account of the third experiment made by Dr Goddard'6 - Paper, 'Experiments of weighing glasse canes with the cylinders of quicksylver in them according to the torricellian experiment' by Jonathan Goddard and 'William Brouncker's account of the third experiment made by Dr Goddard'
7 - Paper, 'Observables in the six branched figures frozen in urine' by Robert Hooke
Expand 8 - Paper, 'Dr Wallis's account of Dr Goddard's expt [experiment] made at Gresham College [London], about weighing of glass-canes with the cylinders of quicksilver standing in them, according to the Torricellian Experiments' by [John] Wallis8 - Paper, 'Dr Wallis's account of Dr Goddard's expt [experiment] made at Gresham College [London], about weighing of glass-canes with the cylinders of quicksilver standing in them, according to the Torricellian Experiments' by [John] Wallis
9 - Paper, 'An experiment of exhalation raised from water and returning to water again' by Dr [Jonathan] Goddard
10 - Paper, 'A discourse about water' by S W P [Sir William Petty]
11 - Paper, 'An account of the diversity of the parts of water' by unknown author
Expand 12 - Paper, regarding the difference in the weight of liquids by [Balthasar de] Monconis [Monconys]12 - Paper, regarding the difference in the weight of liquids by [Balthasar de] Monconis [Monconys]
12a - Paper, English translationg of 'A way of knowing exactly the difference of the weight of liquors' by [Balthasar de] Monconis [Monconys]
13 - Paper, regarding details of an unusual spring in Chertsey in Surrey [England] by Robert Moray
14 - Paper, 'An account of the tides at St Helena [South Atlantic Ocean]' by the Governor [Robert Stringer] in a letter to Mr [Daniel] Colwall
15 - Paper, 'Notes concerning dyving [diving] and working under water' by Mr Mawle
16 - Paper, 'Experiment of weighing a piece of brasse both above and underground' by Dr [Edward?] Cotton
16a - Paper, 'Observations upon the experiments of severall liquors in a tube of about 36 feet in length erected perpendicularly' by [Jonathan] Goddard
17 - Paper, 'Observations of Dr Robert Moray, Sir P [Paul] Neil and Dr [Christopher] Wren, made by them in their late excursion into the country' by Robert Moray
18 - Paper, 'Observations of tides' by Mr Powle
19 - Paper, regarding tides by S C [Samuel Colgreave]
20 - Paper, 'The art of salt making and refining of salt' by [Mr Collins]
21 - Paper, 'A narrative of the making of salt in Cheshire [England]' by [Mr Collins]
22 - Paper, regarding observations of the tides at Plymouth in 1667 by Samuel Colepresse
23 - Paper, 'The weight of mettals in the exactest scales of all' by unknown author
24 - Paper, regarding observations of the tides at Bristol [England] by Samuel Sturmy
25 - List, 'Writers of the weights of mettals and liquors' by Mr [John] Collins
26 - Paper, regarding experiments to show the weight of some metals, stones and liquids by Mr Reynolds
27 - Paper, 'Experiments concerning freezing' by unknown author
28 - Paper, 'A relation of M Rochford's going down under water at Gottenburg in Sweden' by unknown author
29 - Paper, 'The use of the tide-circle' by unknown author
30 - Paper, 'The new invented water-engine' by unknown author
31 - Paper, 'How strong the water is of salt?' by unknown author
32 - Paper, regarding an account of the current of the tides around Orcades [Orkney Islands] by Robert Moray
33 - Paper, 'De moventibus in fluido' by unknown author
Expand 34 - Paper 'Linea carolina mensura' by Georg Stiernhielm34 - Paper 'Linea carolina mensura' by Georg Stiernhielm
Expand 35 - Paper, details of a new way to raise water by unknown author35 - Paper, details of a new way to raise water by unknown author
36 - Paper, 'Tryalls made with the sea ice brought from Harwich Harbour [England] by Dr Stare
Expand 37 - Paper, regarding Denis Papin's experiment with forcing air out of a glass by Mr R A37 - Paper, regarding Denis Papin's experiment with forcing air out of a glass by Mr R A
38 - Paper, regarding calculations for determining the weight of a bullet by Geo [George] Tollet
Expand 39 - Paper, regarding the theory of water pressure in a vessel by Joshua Walker39 - Paper, regarding the theory of water pressure in a vessel by Joshua Walker
40 - Paper, 'Archimedes's problem of King Hiero's crown' by Lord Viscount Mountjoy
41 - Paper, regarding measuring cisterns in London by Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley
42 - Paper, 'A discourse on this problem why bodys, dissolved in menstrua specifically lighter then themselves, swim therein' by William Molyneux
43 - Paper, 'An account of the course of the tides at the port of Dublin in Ireland' by William Molineux [Molyneux]
44 - Table, regarding tides at Bristol [England] in 1687 by Richard Waller
45 - Paper, calculations of the weights of various parts of eggs by Mr Standard
Expand 46 - Paper, 'Concerning hydraulick engines' by [William] King46 - Paper, 'Concerning hydraulick engines' by [William] King
Expand 47 - Paper, regarding experiments with barometers and observations of the weather in 1686 by [John] Caswell47 - Paper, regarding experiments with barometers and observations of the weather in 1686 by [John] Caswell
48 - Paper, 'A table of the heights at which several liquids stood in a tube of an inch diameter' by Mr Waller
49 - Paper, regarding experiments to show the force of the pressure of water at great depths by Dudley North
50 - Paper, regarding a rivulet in Berkshire [England] by unknown author
51 - Paper, 'An account of R Boyle's way of examining waters as to freshnes and saltnes' by Robert Boyle
52 - Paper, 'Of salt' by John Byndlos
53 - Paper, regarding details of how to establish a salt work by unknown author
54 - Paper, 'An account of the production of this salt' by unknown author
55 - Paper, regarding wells that makes noise when there is a change in the weather by unknown author
56 - Paper, regarding the weights of liquids and gunpowder by unknown author
57 - Paper, regarding the weights of bladder stones by Henry Hunt
58 - Table, the conversion of china ware weights into troy by Henry Hunt
59 - Paper, 'Specifick gravity of stones taken out the stomach of a horse, weighed' by H [Henry] Hunt
60 - Letter, concerning the properties of mineral water and its medicinal cures from unknown author to unknown recipient
61 - Letter, 'Relateing to a pretended invention of Dr [Denis] Papin' by Thomas Savery to Dr John Harris
62 - Paper, 'An account of the papers, models, and figures which the Society received from Mr Hobbs of Weymouth in Dorsetshire [England]' by unknown author
63 - Paper, 'A phylosophical discourse concerning hydrostaticks' by Thomas Bates
64 - Paper, 'A description of an engine to raise water by the help of quicksilver, invented by the late Mr Joshua Haskins; and made practicable and usefull' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
65 - Paper, details of an extraordinary high tide observed at Shadwell [London] by Captain Thomas Jones
66 - Paper, James Jurin's defence of the paper 'De moto aquarum fluentium' [On the motion of flowing water] by Pietro Michelotti
67 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment, made to ascertain the proportion of the expansion of the liquor in the thermometer, with regard to the degrees of heat' by Brook Taylor
68 - Paper, 'Experimenta circa gradum caloris liquorum nonnullorum ebullientium instituta' [Experiments on boiling liquids] by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Expand 69a - Paper, 'Araeometri novi descriptio et usus' [Description of the new araeometer and its uses] by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit69a - Paper, 'Araeometri novi descriptio et usus' [Description of the new araeometer and its uses] by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
69b - Paper 'Materiarum quarundam gravitates specficæ' [Concerning the gravity of different substances] by D G [Daniel Gabriel] Fahrenheit
70 - Paper, 'Of the current of the strait's mouth' by Dr Hudson
71 - Paper, 'Account of the specifick gravities of three several pieces of tin ore' by Francis Hauksbee
72 - Extract, 'An account of several rocks of ice of an uncommon bigness found in the ocean, extracted from Freziers Journal of his Chili voyage' by W R [William Rutty]
72a - Letter, account of boring a well at Queensborough by Frost, Young, Oxley, Roswell, Stacey, Hayward, Ward, Hogg, Dod, Finch, Devert, and Jones
Expand 73 - Paper, 'Conjectures upon the nature of intermitting and reciprocating springs' by Joseph Atwell73 - Paper, 'Conjectures upon the nature of intermitting and reciprocating springs' by Joseph Atwell
Expand 74 - Paper, regarding the water works at London Bridge by Henry Beighton74 - Paper, regarding the water works at London Bridge by Henry Beighton
75 - Paper, 'An account of a new engine for raising water' by Walter Churchman
Expand 7i - Classified papers: volume 7i concerning 'Architecture, ship-building, geography, navigation, voyages, travels'7i - Classified papers: volume 7i concerning 'Architecture, ship-building, geography, navigation, voyages, travels'
Expand 7ii - Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels'7ii - Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels'
Expand 8i - Classified papers: volume 8i concerning 'Astronomy'8i - Classified papers: volume 8i concerning 'Astronomy'
Expand 8ii - Classified papers: volume 8ii concerning 'Astronomy'8ii - Classified papers: volume 8ii concerning 'Astronomy'
Expand 9i - Classified papers: volume 9i concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'9i - Classified papers: volume 9i concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'
Expand 9ii - Classified papers: volume 9ii concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'9ii - Classified papers: volume 9ii concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'
Expand 10i - Classified papers: volume 10i concerning 'Botany'10i - Classified papers: volume 10i concerning 'Botany'
Expand 10ii - Classified papers: volume 10ii concerning 'Botany'10ii - Classified papers: volume 10ii concerning 'Botany'
Expand 10iii - Classified papers: volume 10iii concerning 'Agriculture'10iii - Classified papers: volume 10iii concerning 'Agriculture'
Expand 11i - Classified papers: volume 11i concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'11i - Classified papers: volume 11i concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
Expand 11ii - Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'11ii - Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
Expand 12i - Classified papers: volume 12i concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'12i - Classified papers: volume 12i concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'
Expand 12ii - Classified papers: volume 12ii concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'12ii - Classified papers: volume 12ii concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'
Expand 13 - Classified papers: volume 13 concerning 'Monsters, Longevity'13 - Classified papers: volume 13 concerning 'Monsters, Longevity'
Expand 14i - Classified papers: volume 14i concerning 'Physick'14i - Classified papers: volume 14i concerning 'Physick'
Expand 14ii - Classified papers: volume 14ii concerning 'Physick'14ii - Classified papers: volume 14ii concerning 'Physick'
Expand 15i - Classified papers: volume 15i concerning 'Zoology'15i - Classified papers: volume 15i concerning 'Zoology'
Expand 15ii - Classified papers: volume 15ii concerning 'Zoology'15ii - Classified papers: volume 15ii concerning 'Zoology'
Expand 16 - Classified papers: volume 16 concerning 'Grammar, Chronology, History, Antiquities'16 - Classified papers: volume 16 concerning 'Grammar, Chronology, History, Antiquities'
Expand 17 - Classified papers: volume 17 concerning 'Miscellaneous Papers'17 - Classified papers: volume 17 concerning 'Miscellaneous Papers'
Expand 18i - Classified papers: volume 18i of classified papers concering 'Papin and Hauksbee papers'18i - Classified papers: volume 18i of classified papers concering 'Papin and Hauksbee papers'
Expand 18ii - Classified papers: volume 18ii concerning 'Desaguliers papers'18ii - Classified papers: volume 18ii concerning 'Desaguliers papers'
Expand 19 - Classified papers: volume 19, questions and answers19 - Classified papers: volume 19, questions and answers
Expand 20 - Classified papers: volume 20, Robert Hooke's papers20 - Classified papers: volume 20, Robert Hooke's papers
Expand 21 - Classified papers: volume 21, Edmond Halley's papers21 - Classified papers: volume 21, Edmond Halley's papers
Expand 22i - Classified papers: volume 22i , accounts of books22i - Classified papers: volume 22i , accounts of books
Expand 22ii - Classified papers: volume 22ii, accounts and books22ii - Classified papers: volume 22ii, accounts and books
Expand 23i - Classified papers: volume 23i, inoculations23i - Classified papers: volume 23i, inoculations
Expand 23ii - Classified papers: volume 23ii, inoculations23ii - Classified papers: volume 23ii, inoculations
Expand 24 - Classified papers: volume 24, papers of  John Collins, Henry Oldenburg, Robert Hooke, mathematics24 - Classified papers: volume 24, papers of John Collins, Henry Oldenburg, Robert Hooke, mathematics
Expand 25 - Classified papers: volume 25 concerning politics and trades25 - Classified papers: volume 25 concerning politics and trades

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