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it was want to take that very impetuous motion, and half a 
degree before it arrived thereto, we took it out. Then 
looking conftantly with a careful! eye upon the water in the 
Globe, which by reafon of the tranfpifenoy of the Chry- 
ftal was plainly feen to be yet altogether fluid and clear, 
the water, though now out of the Ice , did by the ope- 
ration of the introduced cold, (after it had attained to its 
due point with a fwiftnels imperceptible to the Eye, the 
tranfparency within the Globular part being loft , and it 
felf in an inftant, as 'twere, deprived of its motion) totally 
conglaciate* Which Experiment we tried over and over a* 
gain, and foundit al way esfucceed alike. 
An ExIyaB of a Letter of Monjieur Hevelius, concermng hk 
Ohfirvations of the Moon's Eclipfe, on Septemb^ 29.^ 
16 70» and the Conjqnftion Venus and the Moon , 
on the nth of O&oh, fi* n. 1670 , m alfi fgme re* 
marks about the New Star near the Beak of the Swan, 
and that other in the Neck of the Whale : together with 
fome other particulars of a Philof nature. Here deliver d in 
the fame tongue^ in which it was written. 
N On potui Refponftim tuum ad meas ultimas exfpeBare^ 
quin rurjiis ad Vos Jcriberem , deque recentioribus 
qnibufdam Ph(£nomeQis ^ Objervationibus, hie a me feliciter 
habitisy certiores redderem , inprimis cum videam^ meas quales 
quales Animadverftones Calefies ll/ufirijjim£ noJir£ Societal! 
Regime hailenus non omnino dijplicuijje, 
Primo, die 29. Septembris fi, nov. mane^ Eclipfin Lun^ 
Ccslo perquam fereno ^ ab initio ufqne ad finem^ ex votoob * 
fervavi. Initium ejus incidit hora 22^ , quanquam id ipjum 
^ix omnino accurate obfervari potuerit^ ob Vmbram Terr£ die 
lutijfim m: Siquidem^ durante Eclipfi, totaVmbra adeo tenuis 
erat atque diluta^ ut omnes pr£c}puas maculas per eam^ meo 
vjgintipedumTubo^quin d breviorihus^optime confpicerepotuerim. 
1 i Maxima 
