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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Encloses his views about John Wallis's theory on the flux and reflux of sea (see EL/I1/165)

25 June 1673 Sender: Francis Jessop Reference number: EL/I1/164

Concerning hypothesis about tides with answers to John Wallis's notes (in Latin)

01 January 1673 Sender: Francis Jessop Reference number: EL/I1/166

Concerning his theory about tides

15 September 1673 Sender: Francis Jessop Reference number: EL/I1/167

Concerning his objections to Wallis's theory on tides and that he would like his opinions to be published verbatim

13 October 1673 Sender: Francis Jessop Reference number: EL/I1/168

Discussing John Wallis's comments on a mathematical problem concerning straight and crooked lines

19 March 1674 Sender: Francis Jessop Reference number: EL/I1/171
1674

Concerning 'Fungus subterraneous' from Castleton and a white liquor resembling cream which was found at the bottom of a coal pit Read to the Royal Society on 22 January 1673

7 January 1674 Sender: Francis Jessop Reference number: EL/I1/169

Concerns whether 'crooked lines, which have been straightened, could be described geometrically, at least by points, and whether my laws were such as have been taken notice of by others...' ; believes that the white substance (mentioned in EL/I1/170) sent to the Royal Society was bitumen and that if Robert Boyle wished to carry out experiments with it or the 'fungus' (mentioned in EL/I1/170) then he could send some samples; discussing 'ignes fatuus' (fire flies); details about a man who rode into a bog and was surrounded by a blue flame Original letter was dated 3 February 1674

01 January 1674 Sender: Francis Jessop Reference number: EL/I1/170