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<p>J.B. iterum 8. New | <p>J.B. iterum 8. New METAL.</p> | ||
<p>Fordyce called on me yesterday & <sic>shewed</sic> me a piece of a<lb/> | <p>Fordyce called on me yesterday & <sic>shewed</sic> me a piece of a<lb/> | ||
new < | new <sic>Metalick</sic> Composition invented he says by Heir of<lb/> | ||
Birmingham who is in partnership I believe <gap/><lb/> | Birmingham who is in partnership I believe <gap/><lb/> | ||
some sort of engagement with Bolton, | some sort of engagement with Bolton, either he or his<lb/> | ||
Brother who reads Lectures in London is author of the<lb/> | Brother who reads Lectures in London is author of the<lb/> | ||
English Edition of Macquer's Dictionary; it is yellow<lb/> | English Edition of Macquer's Dictionary; it is yellow<lb/> | ||
but the beauty of it, as it was Candle-light when I saw<lb/> | |||
it I could not judge of; Fordyce says it is malleable<lb/> | it I could not judge of; Fordyce says it is malleable<lb/> | ||
both hot & cold; it possesses all the properties to be wished<lb/> | both hot & cold; it possesses all the properties to be wished<lb/> | ||
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that has yet appeared & it will come cheaper than Copper.<lb/> | that has yet appeared & it will come cheaper than Copper.<lb/> | ||
I had heard of it the same morning from Sweede who together<lb/> | I had heard of it the same morning from Sweede who together<lb/> | ||
with Fontana had either seen or heard of it at | with Fontana had either seen or heard of it at Ramsden's.<lb/> | ||
He spoke of it only as adapted to the arc of Mathematical<lb/> | He spoke of it only as adapted to the arc of Mathematical<lb/> | ||
Instrument Makers; Fordyce spoke of it as applicable<lb/> | Instrument Makers; Fordyce spoke of it as applicable<lb/> | ||
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Should be very sorry to have it known that he had let<lb/> | Should be very sorry to have it known that he had let<lb/> | ||
any go out of his hands; I shall hope however to be able<lb/> | any go out of his hands; I shall hope however to be able<lb/> | ||
to get a bit for you be | to get a bit for you be hook or crook since the piece which<lb/> | ||
would be too small to be analysed might serve very well<lb/> | would be too small to be analysed might serve very well<lb/> | ||
as a specimen.</p> | as a specimen.</p> | ||
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<p>9.<lb/> | <p>9.<lb/> | ||
Against FIRE</p> | Against FIRE</p> | ||
<p>A paper of L.<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> Mahon's containing an account of his method<lb/> | <p>A paper of L.<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> Mahon's containing an account of his method<lb/> | ||
of | of preserving Buildings against Fire is published in this<lb/> | ||
last Vol. of the Phil. Transactions & has been reprinted<lb/> | last Vol. of the Phil. Transactions & has been reprinted<lb/> | ||
in a news Paper. It exhibits the process, but the principles<lb/> | in a news Paper. It exhibits the process, but the principles<lb/> | ||
are to come afterwards; the principle as you may well imagine<lb/> | are to come afterwards; the principle as you may well imagine<lb/> | ||
consists in nothing but the covering the combustible <gap/><lb/> | consists in nothing but the covering the combustible <gap/><lb/> | ||
of the Building <sic>compleatly</sic> with such as are incombustible. | of the Building <sic>compleatly</sic> with such as are incombustible.</p> | ||
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<p>Airs Ingenhouse,</p> | |||
<p>Ingenhouse has come out with an 8vo. volume upon Airs. I have had it in my hand, and as you imagine have not read it yet. From the glance I could take of it and from Swede's account as far as I can collect it contains nothing but an account of the change undergone by respirable air in consequence of its having been absorbed or emitted by various plants, possibly I may send it you in the next Packet.</p> | |||
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<p>Scheel</p> | |||
<p>Sweede at the recommendation of Fontana has been translating out of German into French a Book of Scheel's a Swedish Chemist</p> | |||
<p>on Fire.</p> | |||
<p>Swede says it contains an account of a good many experiments but I believe it contains as much Metaphysical matter as Physical turning probably upon the question whether Fire be a real or fictitious entity. Swede in his precipitate and enthusiastic way went about to persuade himself that it contained prodigious discoveries and had exhibited the analysis of Fire into its constituent parts; but I believe these constitutive parts are no other than Light and Warmth which he seems to be for ranking alike under the class of real entities. I believe the Book touches likewise on some other subjects. it is but a moderate sized duodecimo. the original has been printed these five years. Sweede's translation is now printing at Paris. It may be worth your while perhaps to look out for it. I lost the opportunity of seeing the MSS by my blindness.</p> | |||
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<p>Eudiometer</p> | |||
<p>As to the method taken by Fontana to prevent the water from adhering to the Inside of a Glass Tube I believe it is no other than that of getting it ground with emery. this will at least prevent the water from adhering unequally that is collecting itself into drops. Sweede is getting a Tube prepared under the direction of Fontana.</p> | |||
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<p>Fontana</p> | |||
<p>Fontana is on the point of leaving England, he waits only for the ship which is expected to sail every day; he was to go to Holland; and in consequence of what I have told him by means of Sweede, for I have not yet been at leisure to see him myself, intends to visit Troestwick. I think Fontana's books have to go all of them to Murray, for whom you have his letter. He tells Murray, I suppose, whom to send them to.</p> | |||
<p>14</p> | |||
<p>Court Calendar</p> | |||
<p>Court Calendar you shall have by the next Packet cum notis Wilsoni, but as to news Wilson says it will be less trouble for you to look over News Papers than for him to be at the plague of copying them. I am of the same opinion.</p> | |||
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<p>Letters from S.B.</p> | |||
<p>What Letters I have received from you I can hardly reckon considering that there are some that I have not yet read with my own eyes, and that my Father has impounded the whole stock of them: From Hamburgh one dated October 9th; another Octob. 12th, and I believe a third without any date that any body has been able to find, this you deserve to be whipped for! In one of them half a sheet written at Groeningen; relative to your Journey over Land from thence to Hamburgh nothing but hiatus valde deflebilis, this you deserve to be whipped for also.</p> | |||
<p>16</p> | |||
<p>Parcel to S.B.</p> | |||
<p>About the latter end of September I sent you a Box to Hamburgh, the contents of it I believe I gave you an account of in the last of the two Letters you received there. I hope you have had the νους to establish an Entrepot at Hamburgh and to keep informing Hanbury of your motions that he may forward Boxes and Parcels to wheresoever fortune leads you. I should hope that by this means they might reach you at Petersburgh even during the Winter. Whether I put any thing of a Letter into this last Packet I cannot perfectly remember possibly not as I wrote you by the Post much about the time of sending it.</p> | |||
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S.B. Answers not full | |||
I doubt you did not make very exact answer to every Paragraph in my last, nothing about Mears's Mast Book nor about the Curvators from Mrs. Ramsden's. your letter to Lindegren was sent off by my Father the day it came: I did not see it: I was then at Thorpe; it was he who opened that as well as all the other Hamburgh Letters. I sent Lindegren his Curvators by Davis. I have neither seen nor heard from him. | |||
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J.B. iterum 8. New METAL.
Fordyce called on me yesterday & shewed me a piece of a
new Metalick Composition invented he says by Heir of
Birmingham who is in partnership I believe
some sort of engagement with Bolton, either he or his
Brother who reads Lectures in London is author of the
English Edition of Macquer's Dictionary; it is yellow
but the beauty of it, as it was Candle-light when I saw
it I could not judge of; Fordyce says it is malleable
both hot & cold; it possesses all the properties to be wished
for in the yellow metals in greater perfection than any
that has yet appeared & it will come cheaper than Copper.
I had heard of it the same morning from Sweede who together
with Fontana had either seen or heard of it at Ramsden's.
He spoke of it only as adapted to the arc of Mathematical
Instrument Makers; Fordyce spoke of it as applicable
with particular advantage to Ships Parts; it is so on
to come into use. Heir had thoughts of getting a patent
for it, but doubts whether a Patent will serve effectually
to secure the property of the invention; I tried to beg a
piece of Fordyce to send you as a specimen, but he excused
himself saying that if it should come to be analysed he
Should be very sorry to have it known that he had let
any go out of his hands; I shall hope however to be able
to get a bit for you be hook or crook since the piece which
would be too small to be analysed might serve very well
as a specimen.
9.
Against FIRE
A paper of L.d Mahon's containing an account of his method
of preserving Buildings against Fire is published in this
last Vol. of the Phil. Transactions & has been reprinted
in a news Paper. It exhibits the process, but the principles
are to come afterwards; the principle as you may well imagine
consists in nothing but the covering the combustible
of the Building compleatly with such as are incombustible.
10
Airs Ingenhouse,
Ingenhouse has come out with an 8vo. volume upon Airs. I have had it in my hand, and as you imagine have not read it yet. From the glance I could take of it and from Swede's account as far as I can collect it contains nothing but an account of the change undergone by respirable air in consequence of its having been absorbed or emitted by various plants, possibly I may send it you in the next Packet.
11
Scheel
Sweede at the recommendation of Fontana has been translating out of German into French a Book of Scheel's a Swedish Chemist
on Fire.
Swede says it contains an account of a good many experiments but I believe it contains as much Metaphysical matter as Physical turning probably upon the question whether Fire be a real or fictitious entity. Swede in his precipitate and enthusiastic way went about to persuade himself that it contained prodigious discoveries and had exhibited the analysis of Fire into its constituent parts; but I believe these constitutive parts are no other than Light and Warmth which he seems to be for ranking alike under the class of real entities. I believe the Book touches likewise on some other subjects. it is but a moderate sized duodecimo. the original has been printed these five years. Sweede's translation is now printing at Paris. It may be worth your while perhaps to look out for it. I lost the opportunity of seeing the MSS by my blindness.
12
Eudiometer
As to the method taken by Fontana to prevent the water from adhering to the Inside of a Glass Tube I believe it is no other than that of getting it ground with emery. this will at least prevent the water from adhering unequally that is collecting itself into drops. Sweede is getting a Tube prepared under the direction of Fontana.
13
Fontana
Fontana is on the point of leaving England, he waits only for the ship which is expected to sail every day; he was to go to Holland; and in consequence of what I have told him by means of Sweede, for I have not yet been at leisure to see him myself, intends to visit Troestwick. I think Fontana's books have to go all of them to Murray, for whom you have his letter. He tells Murray, I suppose, whom to send them to.
14
Court Calendar
Court Calendar you shall have by the next Packet cum notis Wilsoni, but as to news Wilson says it will be less trouble for you to look over News Papers than for him to be at the plague of copying them. I am of the same opinion.
15
Letters from S.B.
What Letters I have received from you I can hardly reckon considering that there are some that I have not yet read with my own eyes, and that my Father has impounded the whole stock of them: From Hamburgh one dated October 9th; another Octob. 12th, and I believe a third without any date that any body has been able to find, this you deserve to be whipped for! In one of them half a sheet written at Groeningen; relative to your Journey over Land from thence to Hamburgh nothing but hiatus valde deflebilis, this you deserve to be whipped for also.
16
Parcel to S.B.
About the latter end of September I sent you a Box to Hamburgh, the contents of it I believe I gave you an account of in the last of the two Letters you received there. I hope you have had the νους to establish an Entrepot at Hamburgh and to keep informing Hanbury of your motions that he may forward Boxes and Parcels to wheresoever fortune leads you. I should hope that by this means they might reach you at Petersburgh even during the Winter. Whether I put any thing of a Letter into this last Packet I cannot perfectly remember possibly not as I wrote you by the Post much about the time of sending it.
17 S.B. Answers not full I doubt you did not make very exact answer to every Paragraph in my last, nothing about Mears's Mast Book nor about the Curvators from Mrs. Ramsden's. your letter to Lindegren was sent off by my Father the day it came: I did not see it: I was then at Thorpe; it was he who opened that as well as all the other Hamburgh Letters. I sent Lindegren his Curvators by Davis. I have neither seen nor heard from him.
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