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PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSACTIONS.
Monday, Novemb. 11. 1667
The Contents.
A description of an Instrument for Dividing a Foot into many thousand parts, and thereby measuring the Diameters of Planets to great exactness, &c. as it was formerly promised. An account of making a Dog draw his Breath just like a Wind-broken Horse. Diverse Anatomical Observations on Humane Bodies. Several Instances of Peculiarities of Nature, both in Men and Brutes. A Confirmation of the Experiments mentioned in Numb. 27. to have been made in Italy, by injecting Acid Liquors into Blood. An observation about the double Membrane called Epiploon, which covers the Entrails of Animals, and is filled with Fat. Some Hortulan Communications about the curious Engrafting of Oranges and Lemons, or Citrons, upon one anothers Trees, and of one Individual Fruit, half Orange and half Lemon, growing on such Trees. An imitation of a way of preserving, in the more Northern climates, Orange-trees all Winter long, without any Fire. Enquiries for Greenland. An Account of the Synopsis Novæ Philosophiæ & Medicinæ Fransisci Travagini, Medici Veneti.
A Description
Of an Instrument for dividing a Foot into many thousand parts, and thereby measuring the Diameters of Planets to a great exactness &c. as it was promised, Numb. 25.
If the residence of the worthy Promiser of this Instrument, Mr. Richard Townley, had not been so remote from London, nor
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