compare their Obfervations thercwithjeither to verifie thefe Pre- 
diUions^ or to fhew wherein they differ 5 which is (as was alio 
hinted above)the dcfign o( thisPhilofophkal Prophet in dilperfing^ 
his Conceptions, whodcclarcth himfelf ready, in cafe he bemif- 
taken in his reckoning, to learn another Bypothep^ to explicate 
thefc admirable appearances by 
An Experimental Hiftorji of Cold. 
There is in the Prefs, a New Treatife^ entituledj New Obferva- 
thns and Experiments in order to an Experimental Hijiorj ofCold^ 
begun by that Noble Philofopherj Mr. Robert Boyle^md in great 
part already Printed, He did lately very obligingly prefent fe- 
veral Copies of fo much as was Printed, to the Royal Society^ with 
a defire that fomeof the Members thereof might be engaged to 
perufe the Book, and feled out of it for trial, the hints of fuch 
Experiments, as the Authonr there wiftieth might be either yet 
madeor profecuted . The Heads thereof are, . 
1. Experiments touching Bodies capable of Freezing otherf. 
2. Experiments and Obfervations touching Bodies Difpofed 
to be Frozen. 
3. Experiments touching Bodies, Indilpoied to be Frozen, 
4. Experiments and Obfervations touching the Degrees of 
Cold in feveral Bodies. 
5. Experiments touching the Tendency of Cold Upwards or 
Downwards. 
6. Experiments and Obftrvations touching the Prcfervation 
and Deftrudion of (Eggs, Apples, and other) Bodies by Cold. 
7. Experiments touching the Expanfionof Water and Aque- 
ous Liquors by Freezing. 
8. Experiments touching the Contraftion of Liquors by Cold. 
9. Experiments in Confort, touching the Bubbles, from which 
the Levity of Ice is fuppofed to proceed. 
10. Experiments about the Meafure of thc Expanfion and the 
Contraftion of Liquors by Cold. 
11. Experiments touching the Expanfive Force of Freezing 
Water. 
1 2. Experiments touching a New way of eftiifiating the Expan- 
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