Jiqaes, tirees des Anciens Livres Chinois , on 
fades * nouvellement aux Indes , d la Chine & 
ailleurs , par les "Teres de la Compagnie de Jejus. 
It confifts of three Volumes, printed at gar is, 
1729, 1732. 
XIV. Part of a Letter from Mr. Tut- 
berville Needham to James ParfGns M. D. 
F.R.S. of a new Mirror, which burns at 6 6 
Feet Diftance , invented by M. de Buffon 
F.R.S. and Member of the Royal Academy 
of Sciences at Paris. 
Read April 30. OURS of December came fo late to 
this Occafion. **** I have been at the King’s Gar- 
den, and am juft returned : I there learned, that this 
Morning they have been trying fome Experiments 
with a new-conftrufted refle&ing Mirror or Mirrors 
with Succefs : I knew indeed fome time ago, that 
they had been upon the Defign; and M. de Buffon 
had acquainted me with the theoretical Part of the 
Whole. I had even feen a Part of it executed ; but 
as they had not then effaycd it, I would take no 
notice of it: In one Word, it is Archimedes re- 
vived, and the Credit of Antiquity, in this Point, is 
Dear Sir, 
hand, that I could not anfwer it till 
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