nhg^ drftnf^idlly, Mcidiemhatming , tArtama^ and every other fort of 
Steams and Fdf ours : And what ev£ry Ma f effects uf on the Con- 
finer s at whutfeafons^ and at what difiance, the Scales and other Jm- 
flememsntay deteEh, 7 he Ingemous S^n£toms hath not exhaufled 
all the refults (^/Statical Indications. They majferve to calculate or 
migh all (ons of Tranfprationst to difcriminate Generative-^ Nu- 
tritrue, Sana'ive^ Reflorative, and Benigne^from Maleficiate and 
Noxiot^ Sfiritst, and may inflru^t m how to guard from what is 
hurifuh and how to retain that which is congenial^ *lhis Memo- 
randum Wi^s duetothofe Worthies^ who have contrived thefe Philofo- 
phical Tools • and who^ in de [fight of Calumny and Raillery ^have 
i^ thefe and many other reffecis defervd as great N^mcs (/ mufl [ay 
tijis foftly ) as they^ who have adorn' d the be§: Records of foregoing 
Ages, But to return \ Here in this fii ft Volume were alfodijpatch'd 
f:n(\mi:ks and DireAions for all Travellers hy Sea and Land^fof 
cur Correfpondents and all Ingenious perjons refiding in the more 
famous parts ofthe World \ to review^and return a jafe T eflimony of 
dllfuchobfervablcs of Nature and Excellencies of Art ^ as carry the 
greAt! (I fame^ or fcem mo[l confiderahle for Ufe or Jn(fruIlion, 
havefnrnifht particular Inquiries for Mines^/^^r Seas, for Springs, 
and for the tffe^s of the late Invention of Transfuling Bloud,, 
a'-'d Medicated Liquors into the Feins of Animals. 
In the fecond Volume^ containing the Tranfadtions of the Tear 
i6$7. wejpread fomewbatmore largely abroad the Inquiries proper 
for more places of principal notet, and then we received from our 
Co refpondi^Sj and publi/h'dj many not un-inflru^ive Anfvvers. 
And hen were addtd more Inft;uments tf hn^fome newly dc- 
vifedj as an InHfumentfor Meafuring the Diameters of Planets fa - 
great cxdEincJ?. IVe offered fuller Dire^ ions for S^c-voyzoQ^ . col- 
lecled divers hmmn.Cd\rcfe^rches \ relate I m^nj odd effefis cf 
/i^Tra^funon of^\ond^andofMedicinsintothe Veins of AnimaU% 
a deeper Inveftigation and further Accompts <?/Refpirat ion • a dif- 
fered Animal prefervd alive by the Wind of Bellws ^ the In^ence - 
of Air upon the Life and Growth of Vegetables, /dpm Luminous Bo- 
dies-^ and Burning Co ils^ (jrc. 
In the third Volume, for the Teari66S. ( befjss a goodflore of^ 
In[lru£iive Ar/fwersto the former Inquiries, and fome further Fro- 
greflin t he. difclo[ures of Nature) hath been introducdfo^nethingof: 
Aigcbra^ . 
