456 THE CENTUKY, 



Fellow of the Royal Society at the time, and therefore 

 not likely to participate in any matter which the 

 scientific world of his day repudiated. But learned 

 men of his time rather approved of all wonder-working 

 automata than otherwise. Evelyn says in his Diary, 

 under the date of 14th July, 1668, that during an inter 

 view with the King : &quot; I showed his Majesty the 

 perpetual motion sent to me by Dr. Stokes from 

 Cologne/ Vol. ii. p. 37, ed. 1859. 



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An ebbing and flowing Water- 

 work in two Veffels, into either of 

 which the water Handing at a level, 

 if a Globe be caft in, inftead of rifing 

 it prefently ebbeth, and fo remaineth 

 untill a like Globe be caft into the 

 other Veffel, which the water is no 

 fooner fenfible of, but 9 that 1 Veffel 

 prefently ebbeth, and the other 

 floweth, and fo continueth ebbing 

 and flowing untill one or both of 2 

 the Globes be taken out, working 

 fome little effel befides its own 

 motion, without the help of any 

 man within fight or hearing : But if 

 either of the Globes be taken out 

 with ever fo fwift or eafie a motion, 

 at 3 the very inftant the ebbing and 

 flowing ceafeth ; for if during the 4 



9 but that the. P. l the for that. 2 of omitted. MS. and P. 



3 at that instant. P. 4 that for the. 



