Philosophical Transactions/Volume 29/Number 347

Numb. 347.

PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSACTIONS.

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For the Months of Jan. Febr. and March, 1716

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The CONTENTS.

I. An Account of ſeveral Nebulæ or lucid Spots like Clouds lately diſcovered among the Fixt Stars by help of the Teleſcope.

II. Nova & tuta Variolas excitandi per Tranſplantationem Methodus, nuper inventa & in uſum traéta: Per Jacobum Pylarinum, Venetum, M. D. & Reipublicæ Venctæ apud Smyrnenſes nuper Conſulem.

III. Problematis olim in Actis Eruditorum Lipſiæ propoſiti Solutio Generalis.

IV. Some late curious Aſtronomical Obſervations communicated by the Reverend and Learned Mr James Pound, Rector of Wanſted, and R. Soc. Soc.

V. An Account of the late ſurprizing Appearance of the Lights ſeen in the Air, on the ſixth of March laſt with an Attempt to explain the Principal Phænomena thereof; As it was laid before the Royal Society by Edmund Halley, J. V. D. Savilian Profeſſor of Geom, Oxon, and Reg. Soc. Sect.