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su CHRISTOPHER WREN, knt.

Secure and speedier Ways of attacking Forts than by Approaches and Gal-leries.

New Ways of Intelligence, new Cyphers.

Some Inventions in Fortification.

"To pierce a Rock in Mineing.

p ’To purge or vomit, or alter the Mass by Injection into the Blood, bylisters, by various dressing a Fontanell.

Some Anatomical Experiments.

To Measure the Basis and Height of a Mountain, only by journeying

° v er it

To Measure the straight Distance, by travelling the winding Way.

A Compass to play in a Coach, or the Hand of the Rider.

To perfect Coaches for Ease, Strength and Lightness, &c.

§ In Automaton aiqepokpitikon,

Chorda Mnsica animatum,

Authore & Inventore Chr. Wren.

§ Cujus eftmentio supra,in epistola adpatrem suum.

Grandior, Italici solito modulamine pleSiri,

£>uœ tremuit nuper, pollice tali a fides *.Cum cœlo taciturn Jervat nunc fcedus, & ausuIndicat cethereos, nobiliore, modos :

^uicquid vis gelida regionis, in aera nojirumImprimis, oblatd machina fronte refers ;Sive leoninum -j-, rabies canis augeat, cesium ;

^uo gravis exhaufum fervor hiulcat humum ;Sive sub hydrophoro fitulam vertente , proccllasDepluat imbriferi rofcida barba noti:Aerios quocunque modo, vaga fydera, traSIusNutibus officiant, no5le, dieve, fuis;Sphœramm Jiudioja fides dijcernit, & indexImpigcr in scripto protinus orbe notat:

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* The greatBase-Springsof Viols call’dCatlings, be-cause made ofCats-Guts.

■J- Diebus ca-nicularibus so-le leonem pe-ragrante, duceBrio.

% Cum caputpede tergicpost aures.

Mr. Henry Oldenburg, the first Secretary to the Royal-Society, with Disin-t() nu ity, and Breach of Trust, communicated, and clandestinely convey’d in-3n/° re ig n Tarts, particularly Germany and France, divers of the Inventions,C j. original Experiments of the Author; which were afterwards unfairlyJo^’d by others, as the true Inventors, and publissi’d abroad under other^e s .

the first Ideas and Essays of ingenious Minds, have their peculiarei Sht, with the candid and judicious Virtuofi ; the following Papers arex fff r inserted, appearing to be the original Sketch, in an English Dress, off r inauguration Speech, deliver’d by Mr. Wren in Latin, at Greffiam-College,o/ n , the Afironomy-Chair, upon his Election to that Professorship. || The II

is extant, and may have a Place among his compleater Works '■‘fboutTsearsMr eVer Extract subjoin’d, containing some Particulars omitted in his of Age.^A ck Speech, also divers Variations from it, and some Things (it may be)

P anatory thereof, is of further Use or Entertainment to the Curious.

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