TOL. XIII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TAAN8ACTION8, oHJ 



them, for want of which knowledge it is likely they are at present not to be 

 iound. 



j4 Lunar Eclipse observed at the Royal Observatory at Greemvkh, Feb. i-}-, l682^ 

 P. M, By Mr. John Flamsteedy Mathematician to the King. N° 145, p. 89. 

 Translated from the Latin. 



At Sh. Im. P. M. with a tube of 16 feet, I took the moon's diameter 6702 

 = 33' ^5"; then the distance of her nearest limb from the nearest limb of 

 Meraeotis 145 = O' 43''; but the distance of the limb of the same spot from the 

 moon's remoter limb was 6575 = 32' 48". Also by means of the same tube 

 I obtained the times, when the obscuration reached the moon's centre, and 

 when the radius subtended its arcs in the periphery that were either deficient or 

 after they were restored : from whence the middle may be deduced, perhaps 

 not less accurately, than from the compared observations of the beginning and 

 end, the immersion and emersion. 



The principal phases observed by Mr. Flamsteed and Mr. Halley at Green- 

 wich, and by Mr. Haines at London, were as follow : the times, by pendulum 

 clocks, corrected. 



Phases, by Mr. Flamsteed. Halley. Haines, 



h. m. s. h. m. s. h. m. s. 



TTlie beginning of eclipse r • • • 9 12 32 9 13 4 9 12 18 



Sixth part of the periphery obscured. .. . 9 18 10 



The moon's centre, or 6 digits 9 38 48 



Sixth part of the periphery bright 10 7 28 



Total immersion 10 10 14 10 10 11 10 948 



Beginning of emersion 1 1 47 38 1 1 47 9 1 1 47 48 



Sixth part of the periphery bright 11 50 2 1 1 50 7 



The moon's centre, or 6 digits 12 18 28 



Sixth part of the periphery obscure .... 12 39 6 



The end, doubtful 12 45 10 12 44 48 



Ended certainly 12 45 38 12 44 35 12 45 18 



Account of a Murrain in Stvitzerland, and its Care. By Dr. Winder* 



N° 145, p. 93. 



In l682, on the borders of Italy a murrain infected the cattle, which spread 

 into Switzerland, the territories of Wirtemberg, and other provinces, making 

 great destruction among the cattle. The contagion seemed to propagate itself 

 in the form of a blue mist, which fell upon those pastures where the cattle 



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