VOL. X.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. iSQ 



The cherries looked fair, but they had lost much of their taste, and afterwards 

 they were spoiled in less than an hour. 



Having inclosed three pears of that sort called rouselet, in a like-figured 

 glass, which could hold no more, they lifted up the glass at the end of five 

 days; but they were not changed, only one of them was a little softer. 



A peach was inclosed in such a glass emptied of air, with a gauge to it ; and 

 the first six hours the quicksilver in the gauge was risen about an inch ; yet it was 

 not till the 13th day-that the glass was lifted up; and the peach appeared to 

 have kept very well till then ; but after that it rotted in a very little time. In- 

 closed bread yielded no air in a whole month. 



Roasted mutton included, with a gauge, in four days had yielded no air ; but 

 after six weeks the mercury was risen to the middle of the gauge, and having 

 taken out the meat it smelt rank. Raw beef being inclosed, with a gauge ; in two 

 days the quicksilver was risen an inch in the gauge ; and after six weeks the 

 mercury was got almost to the top of the gauge, and this meat had con- 

 tracted a much worse smell than that which had been roasted. Keeping for 15 

 days a piece of fresh butter in vacuo, it smelt stronger than when first put in : 

 yet it could still be eaten on bread ; whereas another piece of butter kept in 

 the air the same time was altogether unfit to be used. 



Extract from a Letter of Mr. Flamsteed, Regius Professor of Astronomy at 

 Greenwich, to Sir Jonas Moor, Knight, &c. containing his Observations of the 

 late Lunar Eclipse, Dec. 2], l675. N° 121, p. 405. Tramla ted from the 

 Latin, 



Correct time of clock. The Phases. 



14^ 29"^ 3(f. . . . Between the cusps, 2085 = 17' 16''. 

 45 ... . The shadow nearly touched Haemus. 

 30 .... It had certainly touched Hasmus. 



30 The right cusp from Meraeotis 1235 = lO' 14'^. 



O The lucid parts about 2800 = 23' 1 1'''. 



30... .. The shadow near Macra. 

 45 ... . Between the cusps about 2288 = 18' 57". 

 15.... The end: for the limb appeared, and the moon round. 

 O . . . . The limb very plainly seen through the tube. 

 30 ... . The penumbra, which to the naked eye resembled an eclipse. 

 30 ... . Diameter of the moon taken about 3757 = 3l' 5^^ 

 0.... Still, and afterwards, the limb, after the eclipse, seemed 

 rather obscure. 

 I observed besides, that the shadow always appeared much more distinct at 



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