A Description of Helioscopes, and Some Other Instruments

The Letter and Postscript to which this refers can be seen in Mr. Oldenburg's Philosophical Transactions The official journal of the Royal Society, edited by Henry Oldenburg. for the month of July 1670. If the reader chooses to examine them, he will see how little reason there was for it to be so complained about by Dr. Holder Dr. William Holder (1616–1698), a clergyman and member of the Royal Society who famously feuded with John Wallis over credit for teaching a deaf man to speak..

ERRATA

Latin for "errors"; a list of corrections for the printed text provided by the author or printer.

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 pioneered universal languages and methods for teaching the deaf.; page 18, line 37: ment?; page 19, second to last line original: "l. penult." (linea penultima): or as; page 22, line 3: prevailed with; page 23, line 1: knew; page 25, line 28: 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 typographical errors.