50 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1673. 



aware of ; since on the presence or absence thereof doth mainly depend the fall- 

 ing or not falling of bodies accounted heavy. But I am not willing, by inter- 

 posing my own conjectures, to prejudge the experiments. 



Account of Two Books, N^Ql, p.5170. 



I. Observations Topographical, Moral and Physiological, made in a Journey 

 through part of the Low Countries, Germany, Italy, and France, by John Ray, 

 Fellow of the Royal Society ; whereunto is added a Brief Account of F. Wil- 

 loughby, Esq.; his Voyage through a great part of Spain, l673, in 8vo. 



This Itinerary contains whatever is remarkable in those places, which the in- 

 genious and inquisitive Author travelled through. Let his reader be a States- 

 man, an ecclesiastic, a philosopher, an artist, a tradesman, a father of a family, 

 an husbandman, they will all of them find matter in this book very proper for 

 their respective genius, professions, and callings. Here is described the climate, 

 government, revenues, laws, customs, manners, tempers, abilities, studies, arts, 

 trades, and natural productions of the countries spoken of; and besides, divers 

 fabulous relations and ungrounded fancies refuted and rectified. 



II. Bernhardi Vareni* M. D. Geographia Generalis ; in qua affectiones gene- 

 rales Telluris explicantur, summa cura quamplurimis in locis emendata, aucta et 

 illustrata, ab Isaaco Newtono Mathes. Professore Lucasiano apud Cantabrigien- 

 ses e Societate Regia. Cantabrigiae 1672, in 8vo. 



* Bernard Varenius was a noted Dutch Physician, who died in 166O. The above ingenious 

 Treatise on Universal Geography, which was honoured with the attention of Sir Isaac Newton, in 

 his Lectures at Cambridge, has been also translated into English, in 2 vols. 8vo, with various notes 

 and emendations by Sir Isaac and Dr. Jurin, Varenius was also author of a curious description of 

 Japan, and the kingdom of Siam, in Latin j printed at Cambridge in l673. 



END OF VOLUME SEVENTH OF THE ORIGINAL. 



Discovery of Two New Planets about Saturn, and some Fixed Stars. By S. 



Cassini. N°92, p. 5178. (Fol. Fill.) 



About the end of Oct. 167I5 Saturn passed close by four small fixed stars, 

 visible only by a telescope, within the sinus of the water of Aquarius, disco- 

 vered in the same place within the space of 10 minutes, by a telescope of 17 feet, 

 made by Campani, eleven other smaller stars, one of which, by its particular 



