104 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1704. 



time the other parts about these cavities were so firmly united, as to becotne 

 a hard and solid stone. 



Account of an Earthquake in the North of England. By Mr. Thoresby. 



N° 289, P- 1555. 



This earthquake was felt at Hull, on Tuesday, the 28th of December 1703, 

 about 3 or 4 minutes after 5 in the evening. It lifted up chairs and tables, 

 and made the jiewter-dishes and windows rattle, shook whole houses, and threw 

 down part of a chimney. The shock came and went suddenly, and was at- 

 tended with a noise like wind, though there was then a perfect calm. Much 

 in the same manner was it felt at Beverley and several other places, particularly 

 at South-Dalton. It was still more violent at Lincoln, where also it raised up 

 the chairs people sat on, &c. It was felt pretty much at Selby, as also near 

 Navenby; where the sudden noise seemed to be like the rumbling of two or 

 three coaches driving furiously, and shaking the chairs on which people sat; 

 and even the very stones were seen to move. A little before there was a violent 

 storm; and at Leeds there was a much greater storm the preceding night, and 

 next day, than was lately in the south parts of England, of which there is an 

 account in a former part of this N° of the Transactions. 



An Account of a Book, viz. Euclidis qu<e supersunt omnia Gr. hat. ex Recen- 

 sione Davidis Gregorii. M.D. AstronomiiB Professoris Savilianij el tl.S.S. 

 Oxon. 1703. Folio, N° 289, p. 1538. 



In this edition is published whatever is believed to be Euclid's, by any ma- 

 thematician of eminence. But as many things have been attributed to Euclid 

 that are not his, Dr. Gregory, in the preface, after a short summary of Euclid's 

 life, gives not only a description of every particular book, but also his opinion 

 whether it be truly Euclid's or not, with his reasons. Then come the elements, 

 which make two thirds of the whole volu!T>e. The first 1 3 books are certainly 

 Euclid's. The I4th and 15th are by most thought to be by Hypsicles of Alex- 

 andria. There are no scholia, no explications added to the elements, (being 

 thought needless to a book of elements, written with so much judgment as 

 this is) nor any notes, except in some very few places, where there are various 

 readings that are material, or where the text is manifestly corrupted. 



Next come the Data, which are undoubted Euclid's, even more undoubtedly 

 than the elements themselves. For it has been said that Theon quite changed 

 the elements, and supplied their demonstrations, but no one has ever questioned 

 whether the Data are Euclid's. Dr. Gregory, in the preface, compares this 



