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* In the firft Column of this Table are the 

 feveral Degrees of Heat, going on in art 

 Arithmetical Progreffion, beginning with 

 that Degree of He3t, which there is in the 

 Air in Frofty Weather, when Water makes 

 the firfi Advances towards Freezing - 7 beginning 

 the Account from this, as the loweft Degree 

 of Heat, or common Terminus of Heat and 

 Cold) and fuppoflng the external Heat of 

 a Humane Body to be rated at 12 parts. In 

 the fecond Column are the Degrees of Heat 

 in a Geometrical Proportion, fo that the 

 fecond Degree is double the firft, the third 

 double the fecond, and fo on *, the firft De- 

 gree being that external Heat of a Humane, 

 Body, proportioned to the Senfe. But now 

 'tis manifeft from this Table that the Heat 

 of Boiling Water is almoft 3 times greater 

 than that of a Humane Body • and that the 

 Heat of melted Tin is 6 times, of melted 

 Lead 8 times, of melted Regulus 12 times, 

 and of ordinary Culinary Fire 16 or 17 times 

 greater than the foremention'd Heat of a 

 Humane Body. 



This Table was made by the help of a 

 Thermometer and Red-hot Iron. By the 

 Thermometer I found the Meafure of all 

 the Degrees of Heat as far as that by which 

 Tin is melted \ and by the hot Iron I found 

 the Meafure of the reft. For the. Heat 

 which hot Iron does communicate to cold 

 Bodies contiguous to it in a given time, 

 (that is the Heat which the Iron it felf 

 lofes) is as the whole Heat of the Iron. And 

 therefore if the Times of Refrigeration are 

 P 4 taken 



