The lives of the professors of Gresham College: to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. With an appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, written by the professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives / By John Ward.

  • John Ward
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1740
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Credit: The lives of the professors of Gresham College: to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. With an appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, written by the professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives / By John Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1. An account of the ufe of the grain of Kermes for coloration: Sent in French^ by MonJ. Verny^ an apothecary at Montpelier, and tranfated into Englif by Mr. Oldenburg. N. xx, p. 362, December 1666. 2. An extraSi of a letter writen by Mr. Richard Fowneley to the do- Bor, touching the invention of dividing a foot into many thoufand parti for mathematicalpurpofes. N. xxv, p. 457, May 1667. 3. An extraB of a Latin letter from Sign. Ciampini, concerninff a late comet feen at Rome. N. clxix, p. 920, March 1685, There are fome other papers of the dodlor’s own, which are entered in the Books of the fociety, but not printed. As, 1. An experimental account of the raifing up of a weight, hung at the bottom of an empty bladder. Read to the fociety November 6 1661 Regijl. Vol. I, p. 109. ’ * This difcourfe, tranflated afterwards into Latin, is entered in Vol. viii p. 177, under the following title: Enarratio experimenti cufifdam de pondere quodam elevato, quod ad extremam veficae vaciiae 'partem appen- fum erat. 2. An account of a carp weighed in air and water. Read January 15, 1661, RegiJi.Yol. i, p. 141. This carp weighed in the air two pounds and one fcruple; but in water, no more than half an ounce and half a penny weight. 3. Experiments of the various efeBs of eggs put in wine: Of wine in the ventricle of a man, who had been hanged: Of a carp attempted to be fed with bread and fack, without fuccefs. Read April 22, 1663, ReAfl. Vol. II, p. 218. ’ ‘ 4. An account of an experiment made upon a tench, in the exhaifting engin. Read April 29, and May 20, 1663 ; Regift. Vol. ii, p. 224. Upon opening the_ fiih when dead, the bladders were found flat; but upon being put into the engin again, and the air exhaufted, they were difl:ended. Hence it was thought, that while the fifli was livino-, the air was drawn out thro fome duSt, by which it received itj whicli was doled up, when the filh expired. 5. An hypothefts of motion. Read 21 January 1668, Regi/l. Vol iv P* 44*. This is in Latin, and very Ihort, confining only of fix propofitions which are followed by feveralfchemes. ^ ^ ’ 6. A difcourfe of the conformation of a chick in the egg before incuba¬ tion. Read March 28, 1672, Regift. Vol. iv, p. 157. Of this difcourfe, which is in Latin, tho the title be Enelilh more has been faid already ’ 7. ^ Dr. Croone, Needham, and King to the royal fociety, Auguft ly, 1673, concerning their fenfe upon Swammerdam and De Graef s books, the authors whereof had deftred the fenfe of the fociety about the dift'erence] therein contained. Read before the council Odober 10, 167?, Letter book VI, p. 241. ' ^ _ 8. Fo Hevelius, April 3, 1679, recommending to him, as from the fo¬ ciety, Mr. Edmund Halley. Read to the fociety April -2 1670 Letter bookyiii, ^ * See above, p. 321; 9- 0/