Mifcellanea Curiofa. CONTAINING A COLLECTION Of fome of the Principal PHENOMENA IN NATURE, Accounted for by the Greatest Philofophers of this Age; BEING THE Most Valuable DISCOURSES, Read and Delivered to the ROYAL SOCIETY, for the Advancement of Phyfical and Mathematical Knowledge. As alfo a Collection of Curious Travels, Voyages, Antiquities, and Natural Hiftories of Countries; Prefented to the fame Society. In Three VOLUME S. The Second Edition; To which is added, A Difcourfe of the Influence of the Sun and Moon on Humane Bodies, &c. By R. MEAD, M. D. F. R. S. And alfo Fontenelle's Preface of the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed by 3. M. for R. Smith, at the Bible under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill. 1708. |