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PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSACTIONS.
Monday, June 15. 1668
The Contents.
An Account of a Controversy betwixt Stephano de Angelis, and
John Baptista Riccioli, concerning the Motion of the Earth.An Enlargement of the Observations formerly publisht Numb. 27. imparted by a Curious Travellour to Jamaica; Where do occurr Discourses about the Steams of the Sea; the Colour of the Sea; various Plants and Animals in Jamaica, and other Islands of the Caribes; the qualities of Tobacco growing in Nitrous Ground; Hurricans; a way to make a Boat ride at Anchor in the main Sea; the effects of the Change of Climat on Human Bodies; a probable way of Preventing and Curing Sickness in Travellors to the West-Indies, &c.An Extract of a Printed Letter, addressed to the Publisher, touching a late difference, risen at Paris, about the Transfusion of Bloud.An Account of two Books: I. THE PROGRESS and ADVANCEMENT of KNOWLEDGE since the dayes of ARISTOTLE; by JOS. GLANVILL.II. ABRAH. COULEII Sex Libri PLANTARUM.
An Account
Of a Controversy betwixt Stephano de Angelis Professor of the Mathematicks in Padua, and Joh. Baptista Riccioli Jesuite; as it was communicated out of their lately Printed Books, by that Learned Mathematician Mr. Jacob Gregory, a Fellow of the R. Society.
RIccioli in his Almagestum Novum pretends to have found out several new demonstrative Arguments against the Motion of the Earth. Steph. de Angelis, conceiving his Arguments to
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