( 42 9 ) Numbr^#* 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of April, May and June, 171 6« 
The CONTENTS. 
L A Defcription of the Phenomenon of the 6th of 
JLX. March lafl, as it ms [een on the Ocean , mar 
the Coafl of Spain. With an Account of the return of 
the fame fort of Appearance , on March 31, and April 1. 
and i. following. 
IT. An Account of feme Experiments of Light and Colours, 
formerly made ly Sir Ifaac Newton, and mention d in his 
Opticks, lately repeated before the Royal Society, by 
J. T. Defaguiliers, F. R. S. 
III. A plain and eafy Experiment to confirm Sir Ifeac 
Newton ’ j Dotfrine of the different Refrangilility of the 
Rays of Light . By the fame . 
IV. An Account of what appear'd on opening the big-belly ’d 
Woman near Haman in Shroplhire, who was fuppos’d to 
have continued many Tears with Child . Communicated 
by Dr . Hollings, M D. from Shrewsbury. 
V. Methodus fingularis qua Solis Parallaxis Jive diftantia 
a Terra, ope Veneris intra Solem cvnjpicienda, tuib 
determinari poterit : propofita coram Regia Societate ab 
Edm. Halleio, J. U. D. ejufdem S octet at is Secretario. 
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