Hierarchy Browser

Skip Navigation Links.
Collapse RBO - Register Book Original of the Royal SocietyRBO - Register Book Original of the Royal Society
Expand 1 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 1, copies of papers communicated 1661-16621 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 1, copies of papers communicated 1661-1662
Expand 2i - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2i, copies of papers communicated 1662-16632i - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2i, copies of papers communicated 1662-1663
Expand 2ii - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2ii, copies of papers communicated 1662-16632ii - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2ii, copies of papers communicated 1662-1663
Expand 3 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 3, copies of papers communicated 1663-16683 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 3, copies of papers communicated 1663-1668
Collapse 4 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 4, copies of papers communicated 1668-16754 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 4, copies of papers communicated 1668-1675
0 - Index, listing the experiments, enquiries & discourses contained in Register Book 4
1 - 'Of Mr Mercator's Logarithmotechnia' by John Wallis
2 - Mr Mercator's Logarithmotechnia - the Demonstration Promised at the end of the foregoing discourse
3 - 'Additional Answers to the printed Quaeries of Mines' by Joseph Glanvill
4 - 'The Earle of Sandwich's Observations Of the Comet of 1668 and the Eclipse of the Moon of the 8th of May 1668'
5 - 'Captain Samuel Sturmey his Account of Tydes [tides]'
6 - 'Answers to some Quaeries formerly sent into the East Indies to Sir Philliberto Vernatti
7 - 'A Particular of the Present sent by Sir Philliberto Vernatti from Batavia [Jakarta, Indonesia] in Java Major to the Royal Society accompanying the foregoing account of the Quaeries'
8 - Dr Christopher Wren's hypothesis of motion
9 - 'De Motu Corporum ex mutuo impulsu Hyopothesis' by Christian Huygens
10 - 'Dr King's Account of the Testicles'
11 - 'Account of cutting the Kidney of a Dog' by Edmond King
12 - 'Hypothesis of Motion' by William Croone
13 - 'The Description of a Nubecula'
14 - A Cypher of Mons. Christian Huygens de Zulichem
15 - A Cypher by Dr Christopher Wren
16 - 'Inquiries for Barbary Recommended by the Royal Society To The favour and care of his Excellency the Lord Henry Howard, His Majesties Ambassadour Extraordinary to the Emperour of Marocco [Morocco]'
17 - 'Some Observations Concerning the odd Turn of some Shell-snailes, and the Darting of Spiders'
18 - 'Mr William Neile His Hypothesis of Motion'
19 - 'De Mercurio Quaestiones tres a Johanne Baptista Signi Medico Florentino per Johanne Baptista Gorniam propositae coram Societatis Regali, cum Responsionibus Medicorum Londinensium quorundum ex eadem Societate'
20 - 'The Generation of an Hyperbolical Cylindroid, accommodable to the Grinding of Hyperbolical Glasses Invented by Dr Christopher Wren'
21 - 'Animadversiones in novam Theoriam Motus' of Christopher Wren and Christian Huygens
22 - 'Experiments concerning the Motion of the sap in Trees made this Spring 1669' by Francis Willughby and John Ray
23 - 'Anagrammata Propositionum XIV quae quam primum licebit explicanda' by Christian Huygens
24 - 'Queries concerning the Salt-Springs and Salt-work of Nantwich Recommended by Mr Oldenburg to Dr William Jackson, Physician at Nantwich'
25 - 'An Experiment designed to shew whether the Muscles of an Animal in their action, are bigger or lesse in their total summe of Dimensions' brought in by Jonathan Goddard
26 - Solution by John Collins of a chorographical problem proposed by Richard Towneley
27 - 'A Description and Scheme of Dr Wren's Instrument for Drawing up Great Weights from Deep places'
28 - 'Experiments Of the weight of some Mettals, stones and liquors, formerly made by Mr Reynolds in the Tower of London'
29 - 'An Accompt of the Experiment for explicating the Thickning of the Air by Clouds and Fogs and the clearing of it in fair Weather' by Robert Hooke
30 - Observations of Moscovy by Sir Peter Wyche
31 - 'Observations On Insects [lodging themselves] in old Willow' by Edmond King
32 - 'Observations of the Spots appearing in the Sun' by Robert Hooke
33 - 'Observation of the Ecclipse of the Moon made September 3 1671' by Robert Hooke
34 - 'The manner of making at Norimberg [Nuremburg] in Germany the Foliers, which the Goldsmiths use to put under Preticous stones' brought in by Mons Schroter
35 - 'The Phaenomena of an Experiment about Freezing' brought in by Robert Boyle
36 - 'Mons Bullialdus's Calculation of the Lunar Eclipse of September 18 1671 from the Philolaic Tables'
37 - 'Mons Bullialdus his Calculation of the places of the Sun and Moon on April 22 1671 from the Philolaick Tables'
38 - 'Proposition for the perfecting of Telescopes, Microscopes etc' by Robert Hooke
39 - 'Isaaci Newtoni Matheseos in Acad. Cantab. professoris Inventum Novum quo Telescopia longa insigniter contrahuntur citra effecti fraudem'
40 - 'Concerning Glasse tinged' by Schroter
41 - 'An Experiment To Prove that the substance of a Candle Lamp is dissolved by the Air and the greatest part thereof reduced into a Fluid in the forme of Air' brought in by Robert Hooke
42 - 'An Account of an Experiment or Observation made upon a Buble of Water and soap which at the first Appearance seems very strange' by Robert Hooke
43 - 'Some Observations about Shining Flesh' by Robert Boyle
44 - 'A discourse Of Mr Isaac Newton containing his New Theory about Light and Colours, sent by him from Cambridge February 6 1672'
45 - Robert Hooke's considerations of Isaac Newton's discourse of light and colour
46 - 'Doctor Croon's Discourse of The conformation of a Chick in an Egge Produced at the Royal Society March 28 1672'
47 - 'Enquiries for Barbary Recommended to the Favour and Care of his Excellency The Lord Henry Howard, His Majesty's Ambassadour Extraordinary to the Emperor of Morocco May 28 1669'
48 - 'Some breife observations concerning the nature of Snow' by Nehemiah Grew
49 - 'Some observations of the Secondine or innermost cover of the seed of' by Nehemiah Grew
50 - 'Queries proposed to and Answered by Captain Guilliaum and Mr Baily concerning the voyage and Country of the Bottom of the East Hudsons-bay one of the chiefe places of the Beavor [beaver] trade' by Henry Oldenburg
51 - 'An Accompt of some Experiments about Refractions and colors made before the Royal Society' described by Robert Hooke
52 - 'Concerning Arithmetick Instruments' brought in by Robert Hooke
53 - 'A Discourse of Gravity and Gravitation Grounded on Experimental Observations' by John Wallis
54 - 'Experimental Notes of the Mechanical Origine or Production of Fixtness' by Robert Boyle
55 - 'A Discourse to the Royall Society' made by William Petty
56 - 'Concerning the Nature, Causes and Power of Mixture' by Nehemiah Grew
57 - 'Of the Seeds of Plants' by John Ray
58 - 'Of the specifick Differences of Plants' by John Ray
59 - 'A Discourse made by Sir Robert Southwell ... about water'
60 - 'A Generall & Comparative Description of the Stalk or Branch of a Plant' by Nehemiah Grew
61 - 'Of the Differences of Tastes' by Nehemiah Grew
62 - Index, for Register Book 4
Expand 5 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 5, copies of papers communicated 1675-16805 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 5, copies of papers communicated 1675-1680
Expand 6 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 6, copies of papers communicated 1685-16876 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 6, copies of papers communicated 1685-1687
Expand 7 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 7, copies of papers communicated 1687-16987 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 7, copies of papers communicated 1687-1698
Expand 8 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 8, copies of papers communicated 1695-17008 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 8, copies of papers communicated 1695-1700
Expand 9 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 9, copies of papers communicated 1699-17079 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 9, copies of papers communicated 1699-1707
10 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 10
Expand 11 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 11, copies of papers communicated 1720-172411 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 11, copies of papers communicated 1720-1724
Expand 12 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 12, copies of papers communicated 1724-172712 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 12, copies of papers communicated 1724-1727
Expand 13 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 13, copies of papers communicated 1727-172813 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 13, copies of papers communicated 1727-1728
Expand 14 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 14, copies of papers communicated 1728-173014 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 14, copies of papers communicated 1728-1730
Expand 15 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 15, copies of papers communicated 1730-173115 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 15, copies of papers communicated 1730-1731
Expand 16 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 16, copies of papers communicated 1731-173216 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 16, copies of papers communicated 1731-1732
Expand 17 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 17, copies of papers communicated 1731-173217 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 17, copies of papers communicated 1731-1732
Expand 18 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 18, copies of papers communicated 1732-173418 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 18, copies of papers communicated 1732-1734
Expand 19 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 19, copies of papers communicated 1734-173619 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 19, copies of papers communicated 1734-1736
Expand 20 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 20, copies of papers communicated 1736-173720 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 20, copies of papers communicated 1736-1737
Expand 21 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 20, copies of papers communicated 1737-173921 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 20, copies of papers communicated 1737-1739
22 - Volume 1 of index to the journal, register and letter books
23 - Volume 2 of index to the journal, register and letter books

Collection highlights

Browse the records of some of our collections, which cover all branches of science and date from the 12th century onwards. These include the published works of Fellows of the Royal Society, personal papers of eminent scientists, letters and manuscripts sent to the Society or presented at meetings, and administrative records documenting the Society's activities since our foundation in 1660.

The Royal Society

The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of
the world's most eminent scientists and is the
oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
Registered charity number 207043

Website design ©CalmView



CONTACT US

+ 44 207 451 2500
(Lines open Mon-Fri, 9:00-17:00. Excludes bank holidays)

6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG

Email Us →

SUBSCRIBE

Subscribe to our newsletters to be updated with the
latest news on innovation, events, articles and reports.

Subscribe →

© CalmView