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which he imparted to us ( as he is woot to do other In- 
ventions of his) in an Anagram; which he foon after, in a 
Letter of JRf^r. 20. i6f^ explained tousby a full defcriprion ; 
for which the K.5'(?^/W/ thought (it to return him thanks, yec 
fa as to intimate to han ^ that Mr. Hook had feme years ago in- 
vented a Watch of the like cooirivance- 
Not long after this there came over in the "jmrmldes Scavam 
sprinted Defcription of M. l/i^;g^/^/s Invention, together 
with a Delineation of the Figure of the fame, which the Au- 
thor of the Tranfaifions produced at the pablick Meeting of 
the RSocietj/j vfhcYc MMook notonly faw it, but took a Copy 
of the Figure it felf at the fame time, unwilling to let him, that 
prefented it there, take it home without permitting him firfl: 
to copy it.- Which done, M.lhgens's Explication of his owa 
way, together with the Figure thereof, was , at his defire, and 
after the perufalof the Nobie Prefident of the R.Societj^ print- 
ed.the 12th* of March ib]^^ , in Numb. 1 1 2. of thtJra^facfi- 
onsr theDefcriberof the Heliofcope well knowing, [bat ic was 
defigned to be publifhed in one of ihofe i rafls;. who, if he 
had given to the Author of them the ieaft intimation , ifflporc- 
ing ihac hedefir^d, notice might be raken at the fame cioie of 
his Invention of the like kind, it would have been certain'/ 
done, as hath been done upon other occafions, witnefs fc veral 
of the fame Tiaas, wherein divers Difcoverics of this Accnr^r 
have been' formerly both printed', and' vindicated fro ., ere 
llfurpation of others ; though indeed it was not nece farv c 
Ihould there be done now, fmce the faid Animadvei for cou^d 
fpeak for himfelf in print as foon as he pleafeo' , as hav i 
laudably made ufeof lateof the prefs for publifliing hiiDll' 
\m own Inventions, 
This is the very truth of the matter, in which whether there 
beany thing on the part of the Publiflierof the Tf anfaSionc, 
that deferves that mim of unhandfome froseedwgs^, he v^ ry 
willingly leaves to all Ingenuous Readers to judge 2 Belicies, 
it might juftly be confidered i that pregnane and in t^ent i ve 
Reads, well verfed in Mathematicks and Mechanicks, ? d 
furniiii^ 
