VOL. VIII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. IJQ 



in Humane Corpore: Auth. Tho. Willis, M. D. in Univ. Oxon. Prof. Sedleiano, 

 nee non Coll. Med. Lond. et Societ. Reg Socio. E. Theat. Shel. 1673, in 4to. 

 This book being in the possession of most physicians, an analysis of it is 

 deemed superfluous. 



II. Johannis Hevelii Machinae Celestis Pars prior, Organographiam Astrono- 

 micam plurimis Iconibus illustratam et exornatam exhibens, &c. Ged. 1673, 

 in fol. 



The famous author of this work, having given us in the preface a learned 

 account of the origin and progress of astronomy, and of the succession of the 

 chief astronomers from the beginning, among whom he accounts the most emi- 

 nent to have been Hipparchus, Ptolomy, Copernicus and Brahe ; and having 

 also taken notice of the advancement made of that science in our age, in Eng- 

 land, Germany, France, Italy, &c. and considered that without a due restitution 

 of the fixed stars to their places, nothing considerable and accurate could be per- 

 formed by astronomers, for establishing the motion of the planets, and for per- 

 fecting astronomy; he resolved to apply himself with all care and diligence to 

 that work: for the prosecution of which, a great apparatus of instruments being 

 requisite, he gives in this volume an ample description of them ; reserving the 

 observations themselves for another volume, already committed to the press. 



In this vol. then, he first treats in general of the instruments used both by 

 the ancients and moderns, and of what is chiefly, remarkable in them. Secondly, 

 describes in particular his own instruments, especially those that are made of 

 solid metal, his quadrants, sextants, octants, &c. Thirdly, as astronomy has 

 been greatly improved by telescopes, he takes occasion to mention what glasses 

 have been made, by himself and others, especially one that draws 140 feet, made 

 and presented to him out of Poland, by Signor Burattini. Lastly, he subjoins 

 a discourse on his skill and way of grinding glasses of a hyperbolical figure, 

 and of his actual performances therein. 



His thoughts on telescopical sights, and his exceptions against them, delivered 

 page 294 et seqq, we leave to the consideration of those, that prefer them to the 

 common ones. 



III. A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvage of the World, &c. By N. Fairfax, 

 M. D. London, l673. 



IV. Apologema pro Urinis Humanis; Auth. Antonio Eygel, M. D. et Prac 

 tico Amstelodamensi. Amstelod, 1672, in 8vo. 



On a Subterraneous Fungus, and a Mineral Juice. By M. Lister. N° 100, 



p. 6179. 

 The fungus subterraneus is found in a rocky lime-stone ground, on a com- 



