The Second Edition; To which is added, A Discourse of the Influence of the Sun and Moon on Humane Bodies, &c. By R. MEAD, M. D. F. R. S. And also Fontenelle's Preface of the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
Printed by F. M. for R. Smith, at the Bible under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill. 1708.
TO THE
READER.
SOME of the Principal Discoveries and Enquiries, both in Physical and Mathematical Learning, being register'd in the Voluminous Journals of the Royal Society, are amongst a multitude of less useful Matters, so Obscurely hid, that but very few inquisitive Gentlemen ever so much as heard of them.
The Design therefore of the ensuing Collection, is to digest in a convenient Method, all the most curious Philosophical and Mathematical Discoveries, as they are to be met with, which may any way tend to the Use of Life or Advancement of Arts and Sciences.