PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS 
For the Months Jamary^ February ^nd March^ 1687. 
The C O N T E N T S. 
I. \ N account of a Comet feen at lApCick //^ September 
1686. take/^ from the Lipfick A8:a Eruditorura 
for the Month of ]>iovQmhQ\: lafi : 2 ) Part of a Letter writ- 
ten to the Revd. Thomas Gale, S. T. D. Reg. Soc. Sqcv. from 
Carniola, Mr. John Weichard Valvafor liber Baro, con" 
taining the Method of Cafling Statues in Metal ; together with 
an Invention of his for making fuch Statues t^/^^j? extraordi- 
nary thinnefsj beyond any thing hitherto known or pracHfed,(l) 
The Anfver of Dr. Papin f ever al Objedf ions made by Mr. 
Nuis againfi his Engine for raijing Water by the Rarefaction of 
the Air ; whereof a defer ipt ion is given in Numb. 178. of thefe 
Tranfaciions .( An Anfwer of the fame to the Author of the 
Perpetual Motion. 5 ) Occultatio Saturni a Luna plena, 
Anno 1687. Martii \<^no. mane: oblervata a D. Ed. Haines 
R. S. S. ad Totteridg prope Londinum,fub Lat. 5 1 gr.i(jm, 
( 6) ^ Difcourfe concerning the meafure of the Airs Refijiance 
to Bodies moved in. it : By the Reverend John Wallis S. T. D. 
I and R. Soc. Soc. (7 ) Part of a Letter from Mr. William 
Cole Briftol to the Puhltfrjery about the Grains refembling 
i Wheats which fell lately in Wiltfhire. ( "^ ) An Extract of a 
Letter written by Mr. Veay Phyfitian at Tholoufe, to Mr. de 
St. \]i^2im^concerning a very extraordinary Hermaphrodite in 
that City. Communicated by Dr. Aglionby, R. S. SoC. Accounts 
fo Books, I. li 2 LHiJloria> 
