444 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I678. 



This glossary of M. du Cange is now completed, and posseses great merit. 

 The work contains above two thousand observables; with several learned dis- 

 sertations on divers curious and profitable subjects. 



IV. Explication Nouvelle et Mechanique des Actions Animales, ou il est traite' 

 des fonctions de I'Ame, &c. Par. M. Duncan, D. en Med. In 12mo. a Par. 

 1678. 



Because the knowledge of the functions of the soul, and animal motions, 

 depends much on that of the construction of the brain ; this author therefore 

 teaches the dissection hereof, after such a manner, as seems more natural than 

 that of Sylvius, Bartholine, or Willis, although they have all done excellently 

 well. 



j4n Eclipse of the Moon of Oct. 29, N. S. 1678, observed at Paris. By M. Cassmi. 



N° 141, p. 1015. 



h m s 



The beginning of the shadow was at 6 43 35 



The total immersion 7 40 20 



Beginning of the emersion 9 21 30 



End of the eclipse , 10 20 5 



Mons. Gallet's Observation of the Solar Eclipse on the Wth of June y N. S. I676, 



at Avignone. N° 141, p. 1020. 

 In observing this eclipse, the image of the sun, through the telescope, was 

 received on a whiter paper, and the appearances carefully noted. The times 

 were corrected by the altitudes of the sun, taken by the shadow of a gnomon^ 

 erected for the purpose. 



The following were the principal phases and times. 

 Digits eclipsed. 

 0° 27' at 7^ 50"^ 34^ 



8 44 44 the horns were vertical. 



9 42 3 the horns were horizontal. 

 10 25 12 western horn vertical to the sun*s centre. 



,10 28 50 end of the eclipse. 

 The proportion of the diameters appeared equal at the eclipse of 6 digits ; 

 for then the sun's vertical horns were distant on each side from his vertical 



1688, at 78 years of age. Besides the above Latin Glossary, which has been often printed, his. 

 Greek Glossary of the middle age, in 2 vol. fol. is also an esteemed work. He published also a 

 history of Constantinople, and various other books, showing extensive reading and deep con- 

 templation. 



