Details of a number of experiments by Robert Hooke 27 June 1683 - 'Of the swimming of unmelted in melted lead' and 'To shew how high water will rise in any Place' 4 July 1683 - 'A Rule for Calculating the Pressure for Water in a Pipe Experiment To shew a way to find the true and comparative Expansion of any Metal, when melted etc' [Figure] 11 July 1683 'The Module of a New sort of Wind-mill' and 'A Way to stay any great Weight, from Falling down to the Bottom; when the rope or Chain by which it is drawn chances to break' [Figure] 31 October 1683 - 'The making of a Glew or Transparent Substance for taking the Impression of Medalls' 14 November 1683 - 'An Instrument to measure the Velocity of the Air or Wind and shewd to find the strength thereof' 28 November 1683 - 'A Way-wiser for Sea' 5 December 1683 - 'An Instrument for the exact finding any desired part of any weight given whether commensurate or incommensurate' 12 December 1683 - Instrument for weighing 19 December 1683 - concerning weights and scales 5 March 1684 - three drills made of stell then fitted with pulleys - that Hooke had tried the expansion of water between a state ready to freeze and a state ready to boil Some figures in text January 1684