Then Icaufed an Tncifion-knife to be tifecl ^ j?nd made rid Ipcr 
fion two inches and an halfe deep (fuppofiiig the Cauftick had 
noc wrought deep enough) but 'twas to no more purpofe ^ 
than the former, 
t CERTAIN PHlLOSOFBtCAZ ESSATn'Sy 
a^d other TRACTS^ Jy the MonorM'e R 0 BERT 
BOX LE ^ Fellhvoftk Sccistj. The Second Editi^ 
en J enlarged, L(\n<ion i printed for Henry Herringman 
mthc Nitv Exchat^gh J, 166^0 
WE could not bue ^ive the Curious Reader notice of this 
reprinted and iri divers places confiderably enriched 
Book • but chiefly inci eafed by the Addition of a very Philofo- 
phical Difcourfe about the Ahfohte Rep in Bodies 5 wherein the 
Noble Author ^ with his ufual modefty as well as acutenefs^, de- 
livers his Thoughts concerniag the Inteftin Motions of the Par- 
ticles of ^iefcent Solids , and in doing fo calls the AhfoluteRefi 
of Bodies in Queftion , by undertaking loprove. That fomeof 
thofe Bodiesjwhich we think have their parts mo^ at Reft, are 
not exempted from having internal Motions in them; to which 
proofhejudgeth 'twill be confequent, that it muft be proba- 
ble, that in other Bodies, whofe Solidity is confcffed infe- 
riour, the component Particles are not in a State of FerfeB 
Reft, 
U.BEL MOVIMENIO D E L L A C 0 MET A, 
spparfa ilmefe di Vicmhre 166^, da PIETRO M 
RIA MUroLI, inV'ihyin^;. 
THis 5 and the next following Traft , ( confifting each of 
a few flieets only ) fliould fooner have been taken notice 
of in thcfc Tranfactions ^ if they had foener come to our 
I iiii 2 hands 
