FRANCIS WILLUGHBY. 
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also all the works on natural history, and many 
French and Italian works collected in his travels. 
These are now at Wollaton. 
Much of the year 1666 was passed at Middleton 
Hall. 
In the Philosophical Transactions, dated 
“ Munday, September 9, 1666,” may be found 
the observations that were made at London by 
Mr Willughby, Dr Pope, Mr Hook, and Mr 
Phillips, on the late eclipse of the sun, which 
happened on the 22d of July, 1666. This paper 
relates to observations made from the commence- 
ment of the eclipse, which was 1 hr. and 54 min. ; 
its greatest obscurity somewhat less than 7 digits. 
“ About the middle, between the perpendicular 
and westward horizontal radius of the sun, viewing 
it through Mr Boyle’s 60 foot telescope, there 
was perceived a little of the limb of the moon 
without the disk of the sun, which seemed to 
some of the observers to come from some shining 
atmosphere about the body either of the sun or 
moon.” 
They affirm to have observed the figure of this 
eclipse, and to have measured the digits, by 
casting the figure through a five foot telescope 
“ on an extended paper fix’t at a certain distance 
from the eyeglasse, and having a round figure ; 
all whose diameters were divided by six concen- 
trick circles into 12 digits.” “ These observations 
were made in conjunction with others made at 
Madrid and Paris, and exhibit those coincidences 
and differences to be expected from the several 
