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A24159 Essayes of natural experiments made in the Academie del cimento, under the protection of the Most Serene Prince Leopold of Tuscany / written in Italian by the secretary of that academy ; Englished by Richard Waller ... Accademia del cimento (Florence, Italy); Waller, Richard. 1684 (1684) Wing A161; ESTC R6541 101,627 224

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ESSAYS of NATVRAL EXPERIMENTS Made in the Academy Del Cimento Under the Protection of the most seren Prince Leopold of Tuscany Englished by Ric. Waller S.R.S. LONDON Printed for Benj Alsop at the Angell Bible in the Poultry 1684. ESSAYES O F Natural Experiments Made in the ACADEMIE DEL CIMENTO Under the Protection of the Most SERENE PRINCE LEOPOLD of TVSCANY Written in Italian by the Secretary of that ACADEMY Englished by RICHARD WALLER Fellow of the Royal Society LONDON Printed for Benjamin Alsop at the Angel and Bible in the Poultrey over-against the Church 1634. To Sir John Hoskyns Knight and Baronet President of the Royal Society c. SIR AS your Commands gave the first being to this Attempt so 't is but Justice to offer it to your Self and 't was but necessary to crave so advantagious a Protection to defend it against the Difficulties things of this Nature meet with in this Censorious Age. I shall wave as less grateful to you a large Description of the Happiness the Royal Society enjoys under such a President whose perspicacious Judgment is actuated by a true desire of promoting real Knowledge and shall rather give some account of the Work it self It was presented in a Publique Meeting of the Royal Society March 12. 166 ⅞ by Sig r. Lorenzo Magalotti and Sig r. Paulo Falconieri from the Most Serene Prince Leopold Brother to Ferdinand the Second Great Duke of Tuscany and has ever since layn in our Library expecting a more skilful Pen to perform what I have here aimed at The Experiments are many and curious made under the favour of that Prince by the Members of the Academy Del Cimento men of great ingenuity and related with much sincerity by the Secretary of that Academy which Society I hear is now scatter'd and the Hopes of those Benefits the Learned World might justly expect from them frustrated Many indeed of these Experiments have been made and shewn in several Meetings of the Royal Society before and since the Publication of this in the Italian in the Year 1667 by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq and other worthy Members thereof but for all this I hope it may not prove unacceptable to find the Ingenious in other Parts of the World have not thought their time mispent in these Endeavours what contrary Sentiments soever some may have nor will the agreement between the success of Experiments made there and what has been attempted here often with a differing Apparatus be less pleasing very many I dare undertake are New to most Persons except your self and upon that account will prove more diverting I need not add the great Expence of Care and Charge and Fatigues of the Academy in this Work nor the scarcity of this Piece in the Original no small Motive to this Undertaking that it might be obtained with more Ease and at a cheaper Rate which how performed I submit to your Self and the worthy Members of the most Illustrious Royal Society begging Pardon for this Presumption desiring onely to subscribe my self SIR Your most humble Servant Richard Waller To the Most SERENE Ferdinand II. GRAND DUKE of TVSCANY Most SERENE PRINCE THE Publishing of these First Essays of Natural Experiments which for many Years have been made in our Academy under the Protection and with the Indefatigable Assistance of the most Serene Prince Leopold your Highness's Brother will prove the happy occasion of giving fresh Testimonies of your Highness's great Liberality to all those parts of the World where Vertue is adorn'd with its deserved Lustre and will create a new sense of Gratitude and Respect in all true Lovers of the more curious Arts and Nobler Sciences Especially we ought to frame our thoughts to a more humble Acknowledgment as we are more nearly concerned and warmed by the cherishing Rays and invigorating Influence of your Highness's bounty Which with the favour of your Patronage the incouraging invitation of your Mind and proper Genius that way but above all with the Honour of your Presence sometimes stooping to our Academy sometimes commanding us to your Royal Apartments has bestowed upon it an Immortal Name Kindled Active Desires in our Breasts and given an happy encrease to our Studies These considerations easily demonstrate with what duty we are engaged to Consecrate the first Fruits of our Labours to your Highness's most Illustrious Name since nothing can proceed from us wherein you can have a greater share and by consequence more due to you nor any thing that may make fairer approaches to merit the happy Fate of your generous Acceptance 'T is certain that through the Excess of so large and signal Favours we can be sensible of no greater Resentments than to find our selves so much obliged to your Highness not that we refuse to bear the Weight of so endearing and inestimable an Obligation but onely because we would wish to be able to offer something not purely your own whence we might at least flatter our selves That we had made some small return which your Highness might impute in some degree to our choice and not wholy redewable to your Highness Self or Necessity· But we must rest satisfied with the bare desire of so just and deserved a Passion since these new Philosophical Speculations are so deeply Radicated in your Highness's Protection that not onely what is now produced by our Academy but what ever shall be brought to Maturity in the most Famous Schools of Europe or After Ages raise up shall be likewise due to your Highness as the gift of your Beneficence since as long as the Sun Planets and Stars retain their glory and Heaven endures there will remain a glorious Memory of one that contributes so much with his auspicious Influence to such new and strange Discoveries opening an unbeaten Path for the least fallacious Method of search after Truth Yet in so great a scarcity of Tributes some little thing presents it self to manifest our grateful observance which is the onely joy wherewith we support our Deficiency while all redounds in more resplendant Glory to your Highness who having already acted your full Proportion of what ever new good and great is at any time to be found in the Repository of Sciences has enervated and discouraged all thoughts of emulation in others This and this alone are we able to lay at your Highness Feet whose continual Protection we crave with Respect and Reverence begging from Heaven the height of Prosperity and Grandure to your Highness Highness's Most humble Servants Of the Academy Del Cimento Il Saggiato Segretario Florence July 14 th 1667. THE PREFACE TO THE READER AMong all the Creatures of Divine Wisdom the Birthright doubtless belongs to the Idea of Truth which the Eternal Artificer so exactly followed in the Vniversal Fabrick of Nature That no Being was made with the least irregular Bias of falshood But Man afterwards in the Contemplation of so high and perfect a Structure through an extravagant desire of Comprehending