An Alphabcthical Index of the Philofophical Tranfaftions 
for the year 1 684. 
A. 
AChmet KuprioH the great and 
wife Vizir at the fiege of Can- 
dia , to whom Panageotti a 
learned Greek interpreted many ancient 
books, p. 440. 
Acmftic ox Thonkal Sfhear ; the (c- 
miplane of it. p. 486. 
Equations (Cubic CarJamck^^ 6cc,) 
f^e Algebra, 
Aged Perfons fee Craven, 
Air j is thccaufe of the Growth of 
-fiones , metals &c. p. 496. 6cc. How- 
to eftimate the moifture and drynefl of 
it by the O)' oof Vitriol, p. 504. 5:05'. 
&c. 
Alcoran , not to be met with in the 
Turkifli Language , but among them 
always in Arabick. p. 435. Frequent 
copies amongft the Perfians in their 
own Language, p. 433- Opinions of 
the Turks conteiri'd in it concerning 
our B. Saviour and the Chriftian Reli- 
gion, p. 433. Many paffages of the 
Old T. perverted in it. P(eudo Chro- 
nifines committed, p. 440. Superfti- 
tion towards it. ^-^/S^^- 
Alga Manna a.nd other fea-plants ; 
fea- water made frcfh by them, p- 49 3. 
^ Algebra ; the dc{e6i:s of it in a Letter 
>c p. 575;. N. 159. 
Altar ; lee Infcription. , 
. Amulets ; fee Chamailt. 
Antiquities found at Kirkbythore 
in Weft-morland, Vix. a Strange Well. 
Earthen- Vellels of divers curious forms. 
Urns,' Sandals^ &c. from p- J^S". to 
p. 55:8. 
Aqua & Aquddu^^ts veteris Romae 
perRaphaelem Fabretti Urbinatcm in 
tribus Dilfertationibus. p. 466. 
AquA^uBus Ahxandrinm , treated 
of in the firfl: Diifertation. tbid. 
Aqua Marcia & Claudia , treated 
of in the (econd DilTcrtation , which is 
prefac'*r with the meafure of the old 
Roman foot > i. e. Pes CapitoHnus , and 
that compar d w.th (everal others, ibid> 
Aqua crabra or damnata , Trajana ^ 
Alexandria & Virgo ; fpoken of in the 
third Diflertation. And that they are all 
that are left of the 1 4, which Procopius 
bund at Rome in his time. p. 46 8. 
Arch-work ; a'peculiar Ibrt of ir in 
two Stone-Chimneys in Northamptori 
Shire. p» 800. 
Arch ( HorizcHtaL) p. 5 84 
Atmojphere ; the common receptacle 
of particles of all figures , from whence 
new weight , encreafe, &c« of bodies, 
p. 49 (^. 
Aurum potabile ; no defireabk Medc- 
cine. p^S^S' 
B 
BAjozid (firfl) y his (cpulcher. diffe* 
rent names, p. 43 9. 
Bajfa 'y who commonly railed to that 
power among the Turks, p. 436. 
Baths ( hot ) much frequented , at 
Checkerghe near Conftantinoplc» p. 
Bones ( in a man ) of a more clofe 
contexture then Calculus humanus, p. 
531. Hydroftatlcally weigh'd twice as 
heavy as their bulk of water. Hardly 
diffolv'd by Nitrous Acids, fee Calcuks 
humamts and the Index, p. 531. 
Bridge at Yont S. Efprit in France, 
p. 5*83. A farther Account of it toge- 
ther with a paralel Hifrory of fbme o- 
ther Bridges at Rome. p. 7 1 1- A De- 
fcription of a Bridge that may be built 
(eventy foot long without any Pillar 
under it. p. 7 1 4. 
Brimfione (or Sidphur)\ but one Spe- 
cies of it, at leaft in Engl, it comes from 
I the 
