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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Monday, January 6. i66\ 
The Contents, . 
NEW Experiments ^ to the number of 1 <5, concerning the Relation 
Set&een\ Light and Air (in Shining Wood and FLh- ) ' 
ingNhat the withdrawing of the Air from thofs and the like Bo - 
dies, extinguif!) s their Light\ and the Re- a dm if ton of Air re - 
fores it. An Account of two Books : I. PATHOLOGIC CE- 
REBRI d* NERVOSI GENERIS SPECIMEN : in quo 
agiturde MORBIS CONVULSIVIS & SCORBUlO, 
Radio THOMC WILLIS M. D. II. ALPHABETVM 
NATVRC. Auchore F. M. B. V. BELMONT. 
New Experiments 
Concerning the Relation between Light and Air (in Shining Wood 
and Eifh -J made by- the Honourable ROBERT BOYLE , and 
by Him addreffed from Oxford to the Pabliiher. and [0 commu- 
nicated to the ROYAL SOCIETY, 
SIR 
perform noW the promt fe I made you the other day, I mufi acquaint you 
”, will W ha P s f ome ^hatfurpnfi you, by giving you an Account 
° L , J !tn ¥ m Euefday night lafi (Oftob. 2 9. i 66 7 .) and the two or three 
following nights, about the Relation between Air and Light, as this is to be 
found in feme Bodies. 
r Th f° cca fi°. n °f the fc Trials was this. Having, as you know, long fine e made 
!f m f Notes chiefly Hifioricaf upon particular Qualities, and finding Light to 
be (howjufily /now difpute not) reckon’d by the generality of Rhilofopkrs among 
Qualities, ihudled together what Obfervations J had either made my f elf or 
receive f torn jome Ingenious Travellers (to whom I recommended my Inquiries ) 
a out ming Bodies ■ And had alfo prepared feveral Trials about them to 
be maae IV hen jjhould have opportunity andrequifite Infiruments to -put them in 
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