A Description of Helioscopes, and Some Other Instruments (1676) - Page 1

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The Letter and Postscript that this refers to can be found in Mr. Oldenburg's Philosophical Transactions The official journal of the Royal Society, edited by Henry Oldenburg. for July 1670. If the reader chooses to examine them, they will see how little reason Dr. Holder Dr. William Holder (1616–1698), a clergyman and scientist who clashed with John Wallis over who first successfully taught a deaf person to speak. had to complain about them.

ERRATA

Latin for "errors"; a list of corrections for the printed text.

Read page 2, last line: original: "l. ult." (linea ultima) not being so; page 10, line 32: impose on; page 11, third to last line: original: "l. antep." (linea antepenultima) precedent to the; page 15, line 7: ingeniously; page 16, line 13: Lips original: "Labra," Latin for lips.; page 17, line 2: in different; line 3: Dalgarno George Dalgarno (c. 1616–1687), a Scottish intellectual who worked on universal languages and teaching the deaf.; line 37: me t?; page 19, second to last line: original: "l. penult." (linea penultima) or as; page 22, line 3: prevailed with; page 23, line 11?: knew; page 25, line 20?: not be; page 26, line 25: renew; page 27, line 36: years or more; page 30, line 23: so too (at least of his supervising); page 31, line 39: owe no more; page 32, line 26: has since. The reader is asked to correct or excuse instances where punctuation and parentheses were omitted or misplaced, as well as some minor spelling errors.