Miscellanea Curiosa.
Reading edition
CONTAINING A
COLLECTION
Of some of the Principal
PHÆNOMENA IN NATURE
Accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age;
BEING THE
Most Valuable Discourses, Read and Delivered to the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Physical and Mathematical Knowledge.
As also a Collection of Curious Travels, Voyages, Antiquities, and Natural Histories of Countries; Presented to the same Society.
In Three VOLUMES.
The Second Edition; To which is added, A Discourse of the Influence of the Sun and Moon on Humane Bodies, &c. By R. MEAD, M. D. F. R. S. And also Fontenelle's Preface of the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
Printed by F. M. for R. Smith, at the Bible under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill. 1708.