PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
^ ' OBober 20. 1^83. 
The CONTENTS. 
1. Hiftorical Ohfervations relating to Con^^ntmo^lt by theT^ve--' 
rend and learned Thomas Smith D. D. Fellovp (?/ Magdalen 
Colledge Oxon : andofthe ^oy^XSociQiY* 
2. abjiraU of a Letter from Mr. Anthony Leeuwenhoeck 
of Delft, about Generation by an Animalcule of the male Seed. 
Animals in the Seed of <^ Frog. Some other obfervables in the 
parts of a Frog. Dig^ejiion & the motion of the blood in a Feavor. 
3. 'B^la':^one del ^trivamento delt vova delle Chocciole di 
F,M* in una litter a al Sign, Marcello Malpighi //2 Bologna 
1(^83. 
Hiflorical Obfervations relating Conftantinople. By the 'Reve-^ 
rend and Learned Tho. Smith D. £>. Fellow of Magd. Coll. 
Oxon, and of the Royal Society. 
COnfantinople^ iorm^vXy Byzantium, was ^ by Gonfantine the 
great called fo after his own name, who being mightily 
pleafed with the beautiful and advantagious fituation of the 
place between two Seas, and defended by narrow ftreights on 
both fides, removed the Seat of the Empire hither, and laid 
the foundation of its future fplendor and greatnefs. It was 
alfo by a ^ fpecial EdicSor law of the fame Em perour, which 
lie caufed to be engraven on a marble pillar, placed near his 
own ftatue on horfe-back , in one of the Piazza's of his new 
built City called Strategium , where the Souldiers ufed to Mu- 
a KssTos 77JV iTrnvvfAs^ TTBAiv. Sothe Etnperour Coiiftanrine in a Letter toEufebius. de 
v!ta Conllantim lib. IV. cap. 56. 8^ apud Theodoritum Hiaar. Ecclef: lib. i. cap. \6, v. 
etiam Socrat. Scholaft. Hift. Ecclef. lib. i cap. 16. 
V. Socratem sMdera. Et Iheopharieni in Chronographia XXV. anno Comlanrini. 
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