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ning, drying, oily, acid, embalming, tartarous, and every other sort of Steams and Vapours: And what every Mass effects upon the Confiners at what seasons, and at what distance, the Scales and other Implements may detect. The Ingenious Sanctorius hath not exhausted all the results of Statical Indications. They may serve to calculate or weigh all sorts of Transpirations, to discriminate Generative, Nutritive, Sanative, Restorative, and Benigne, from Maleficiate and Noxious Spirits; and may instruct us how to guard from what is hurtful, and how to retain that which is congenial. This Memorandum was due to those Worthies, who have contrived these Philosophical Tools; and who, in despight of Calumny and Raillery, have in these and many other respects deserv'd as great Names (I must say this softly) as they, who have adorn'd the best Records of foregoing Ages. But to return; Here in their first Volume were also dispatch'd Enquiries and Directions for all Travellers by Sea and Land, for our Correspondents and all ingenious persons residing in the more famous parts of the World; to revise and return a safe Testimony of all such Observables of Nature and Excellencies of Art, as carry the greatest fame, or seem most considerable for Use or Instrustion. We have farnisht particular Inquiries for Mines, for Seas, for Springs, and for the Effects of the late Invention of Transfusing Bloud, and Medicated Liquours into the Veins of Animals.
In the second Volume, containing the Transactions of the Year 1667. we spread somewhat more largely abroad the Inquiries proper for more places of principal note; and then we received from our Correspondents, and publish'd, many not un-instructive Answers. And here were added more Instruments of Art, some newly devised, as an Instrument for Measuring the Diameters of Planets to great exactness. We offered fuller Directions for Sea-voyages; collected divers Anomatical researches; related many odd effects of the Transfusion of Bloud, and of Medicins into the Veins of Animals, a deeper Investigation and further Accompts of Respiration; a dissected Animal preserv'd alive by the Wind of Bellows; the Influence of Air upon the Life and Growth of Vegetables, upon Luminous Bodies, and Burning Coal, &c.
In the third Volume, for the Year 1668. (besides a good store of Instructive Answers to the former Inquiries, and some further Progress in the disclosures of Nature) hath been introduc'd something of
