134 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO l674, 



A71 Extract of a Letter from M. Hevelius, lately written to the Editor, with a Cohy 

 of a Letter of Dr. Wasmuth, giving a large Account of a New Astronomico- 

 Chronological Work, now by him preparing. N° 104^ p. 74. 



In this tedious advertisement, concerning a book on chronology, composed 

 by a German author, there is nothing that is worth preserving in this abridge- 

 ment. 



An Account of some Books. N° 104, p. 78* 



I. Observations touching the Torricellian Experiment, and the various Solu- 

 tions of the same, especially touching the Weight and Elasticity of the Air. 

 Lon. 1674, in 8vo. 



A strange and futile attempt of one of the philosophers of the old cast, to 

 confirm dame nature's abhorrence of a vacuum ; and to arraign the new doc- 

 trines of Mr. Boyle and others, concerning the weight and spring of the air, 

 the pressure of fluids on fluids, &c. 



II. A Mathematical Compendium, collected out of the Notes and Papers of 

 Sir Jonas Moore, by Nicholas Stevenson. Lon. 1674, in 12mo. 



This volume contains abundance of useful practices in arithmetic, geometry, 

 astronomy, geography, navigation, embattling and quartering of armies, for- 

 tification, gunnery, gauging and dialling ; explaining also the logarithms with 

 new indices ; Napier's rods ; making of movements, and the application of pen- 

 dulums ; with the projection of the sphere for a universal dial, &c. 



III. Icones et Descriptiones Rariorum Plantarum Sicilias, Melitae, Galliae, et 

 Italiae, Auth. Paulo Boccone, Panormitano Siculo, &c. E Theatro Shel- 

 doniano, 1674. 



This industrious and skilful botanist, having spent many years and much 

 labour in the search after rare plants through Sicily, Italy, and other countries, 

 thought fit to publish part of them in England, where he was himself not long 

 since, and very generously left his engraven plates and manuscripts concerning 

 the same, to be printed, as now they are, in the splendid Sheldonian theatre at 

 Oxford. 



IV. Navigation and Commerce, their Original and Progress : containing a 

 succinct Account of Traffic in general ; its Benefits and Improvements : of 

 Discoveries, Wars and Conflicts at Sea, from the Original of Navigation to 

 this day ; with special regard to the English Nation : their several Voyages and 

 Expeditions unto the beginning of our late differences with Holland ; in which 

 his Majesty's Title to the Dominion of the Sea is asserted against the novel and 

 late Pretenders. By J. Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S. printed 1674, in 8vo. 



