compare their Obfervations therewith,either to verifie thefe Ere- 
diUions^ or to (hew wherein they differ 5 which is (as was alio 
hinted above) the defign of this Thilofophical Prophet in difperfing 
his Conceptions, who declareth himfelf ready, in cafe he be mife 
taken in his reckoning, to learn another Hypothecs 9 to explicate 
thefe admirable appearances by 
An Experimental Hiftory of Cold. 
ThereisinthePrefs, a New Treatife, entituled, New Obferva - 
tions and Experiments in order to an Experimental Hi for j of Cold 
begun by that Noble Philofopher, Mr. Robert Boyle , and in great 
part already Printed 5 He did lately very obligingly prefent fe- 
veral Copies of fo much as was Printed, to the Royal Society^ with 
a defire that fomeof the Members thereof might be engaged to 
perufe the Book, and feleft out of it for trial, the hints of fuch 
Experiments, as the Authonr there wifheth might be either yet 
made or profecuted. The Heads thereof are, 
1 . Experiments touching Bodies capable of Freezing others. 
2. Experiments and Obfervations touching Bodies Difpofed 
to be Frozen. 
3* Experiments touching Bodies, Indifpofed to be Frozen. 
4. Experiments and Obfervations touching the Degrees of 
Cold in fe veral Bodies. 
5. Experiments touching the Tendency of Cold Upwards or 
Downwards. 
6 . Experiments and Obfervations touching the Prefervation 
and Deftru&ion of (Eggs, Apples, and other) Bodies by Cold. 
7. Experiments touching the Expanfion of Water and Aque- 
ous Liquors by Freezing. 
8 . Experiments touching the Contra€tion of Liquors by Cold. 
9. Experiments in Confort, touching the Bubbles, from which 
the Levity of Ice is fuppofed to proceed. 
10. Experiments about the Meafure of the Expanfion and the 
Contraction of Liquors by Cold. 
11. Experiments touching the Expanfive Force ©f Freezing 
Water. 
1 2 .Experiments touching a New way of eftimating the Expan- 
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